The price is too high for something that feels so half-baked.
I understand why they decided to cut costs by using a panel design from another project, but the panel is priced at 300€ in my region. That’s a pretty high price for a 14" IPS panel. 300€ is something I might pay for an OLED upgrade, but not for a poorly designed IPS panel.
Also, the “better Linux support” selling point doesn’t work for me. If Linux has issues with 150% UI scaling, that’s a software problem. I shouldn’t have to change my hardware to accommodate that.
I’m probably also not gonna upgrade my panel in the near future, but more out of battery preservation than quality concerns.
Regarding Scaling on Linux: The scale required to get ehe equalivalent of 1080p at 100% scale is 117.5%, which is something that almost no desktop environment supports selecting in the UI, and most other scale factor lead to most apps not being able to render pixel-perfectly.
Some desktop environments manage to support this scale factor, but not all do.
The new display instead has a 1080p-equivalent scale factor of 150%, which is much better supported scale factor in desktop environments.
EDIT: Here’s a list of all “simple” scale factors (6 fractional digits or less) that achieve exact pixel resolutions on both panels:
The “p” number on the side is the height of the equivalent 16:9 resolution with the same width as the scaled resolution.
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I’m a big fan of the Framework project, but this latest panel release has made me worried about the future upgradeability of this laptop. If we need to wait for another company to design a new panel that hopefully matches the Framework laptop’s specifications in order to have a decent panel update, that seems cheap to me.