<story><title>Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics</title><url>https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin?its-the-same-url-but-the-content-has-changed-thank-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Macha</author><text>Honestly find it hard to notice much difference in the display quality between my 1080p 2018 XPS laptop and my 1800p 2019 Mac laptop. Actually the XPS is slightly preferable to me because the matte vs glossy finish outweighs the extra resolution at that size for me.&lt;p&gt;I guess that could just be my sight, but the reviews for the XPS laptop vs the 4k model of the same were pretty much unanimous on the 4k variant being a waste of battery for a neglible return on image quality, so it&amp;#x27;s at least not a fringe view</text></item><item><author>indymike</author><text>Would buy in a heartbeat if it had a 4k display. Hard to go back to 1080p after six years of Retina and 4K displays.</text></item><item><author>Fergusonb</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t speak to the 4700u or the pangolin specifically, but I can offer this perspective on PopOS&amp;#x2F;AMD:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been using System76&amp;#x27;s PopOS with my Asus Zephyrus G14 (4800hs) as a daily driver and I really like it. (freelance&amp;#x2F;web)&lt;p&gt;The battery life is comparable to Windows (on integrated graphics mode, it has graphics switching available)at 7-10 hours with 70% brightness and balanced power settings using VScode and firefox.&lt;p&gt;The g14 has a 75wh battery vs the pangolin&amp;#x27;s 49wh, so I would expect less battery life from the pangolin despite the 4700u having a lower default tdp, since the 4800hs likes to sit at around 6-10 watts when doing non-intensive tasks anyway.&lt;p&gt;In 2021 I&amp;#x27;m not missing any major programs. It&amp;#x27;s pretty incredible how much is cross-platform now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deckard1</author><text>&amp;gt; the XPS is slightly preferable to me because the matte vs glossy finish outweighs the extra resolution at that size for me.&lt;p&gt;I have a ThinkPad, and this has been my experience. Sitting next to my Macbook Pro 13&amp;quot; retina, there is not much difference. 14&amp;quot; 16:9 1080p vs. 13&amp;quot; 16:10 1600p. The matte finish + slight diagonal increase closes the gap between the two. Unless you&amp;#x27;re in your 20s with perfect vision, I doubt the average person could tell a visual difference between the two.&lt;p&gt;I will also say that at 13&amp;quot;, the difference between 16:9 and 16:10 is practically nonexistent. Especially 14&amp;quot; vs 13&amp;quot;. I thought this would be a major issue for me. But it&amp;#x27;s not. On a 27&amp;quot; desktop monitor? Sure, that can make a difference.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics</title><url>https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin?its-the-same-url-but-the-content-has-changed-thank-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Macha</author><text>Honestly find it hard to notice much difference in the display quality between my 1080p 2018 XPS laptop and my 1800p 2019 Mac laptop. Actually the XPS is slightly preferable to me because the matte vs glossy finish outweighs the extra resolution at that size for me.&lt;p&gt;I guess that could just be my sight, but the reviews for the XPS laptop vs the 4k model of the same were pretty much unanimous on the 4k variant being a waste of battery for a neglible return on image quality, so it&amp;#x27;s at least not a fringe view</text></item><item><author>indymike</author><text>Would buy in a heartbeat if it had a 4k display. Hard to go back to 1080p after six years of Retina and 4K displays.</text></item><item><author>Fergusonb</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t speak to the 4700u or the pangolin specifically, but I can offer this perspective on PopOS&amp;#x2F;AMD:&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been using System76&amp;#x27;s PopOS with my Asus Zephyrus G14 (4800hs) as a daily driver and I really like it. (freelance&amp;#x2F;web)&lt;p&gt;The battery life is comparable to Windows (on integrated graphics mode, it has graphics switching available)at 7-10 hours with 70% brightness and balanced power settings using VScode and firefox.&lt;p&gt;The g14 has a 75wh battery vs the pangolin&amp;#x27;s 49wh, so I would expect less battery life from the pangolin despite the 4700u having a lower default tdp, since the 4800hs likes to sit at around 6-10 watts when doing non-intensive tasks anyway.&lt;p&gt;In 2021 I&amp;#x27;m not missing any major programs. It&amp;#x27;s pretty incredible how much is cross-platform now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuaengler</author><text>It could be your sight, or the size of your display. You never mentioned how big it was. If it&amp;#x27;s a monster 18&amp;quot; laptop then the difference between 1080 and 4k is a lot more significant than if it&amp;#x27;s a 14&amp;quot; display where you almost can&amp;#x27;t even tell the difference. It&amp;#x27;s all about pixels per inch. I always prefer higher quality pixels as opposed to more of them, I don&amp;#x27;t mind 1080p if it&amp;#x27;s extremely accurate colour and amazing viewing angles, but that&amp;#x27;s just me.</text></comment>