I believe there are a lot of people using 1080p monitors because they bought it a while ago and they're still working fine. There's also a lot of lower-end 1080p monitors still being sold today.
> One is hard-put to buy a developer-power laptop with a sub-2K display these days, even in the Windows world
I personally see a lot of 1080p screens on new gaming laptops too. Lots of people get those for work from what I see with my peers. When I sold my RTX 3060 laptop with a 1080p screen, most buyers wanted it for professional work, according to them.
> I'm honestly not sure where all these hackernews commenters with low-dpi displays are coming from
If anything, this is exactly the place where I'd expect a bunch of people to be rocking an older Thinkpad. :)
> One is hard-put to buy a developer-power laptop with a sub-2K display these days, even in the Windows world
I personally see a lot of 1080p screens on new gaming laptops too. Lots of people get those for work from what I see with my peers. When I sold my RTX 3060 laptop with a 1080p screen, most buyers wanted it for professional work, according to them.
> I'm honestly not sure where all these hackernews commenters with low-dpi displays are coming from
If anything, this is exactly the place where I'd expect a bunch of people to be rocking an older Thinkpad. :)