This makes me want a MacBook display wired as an external monitor.
My work laptop is an HP 1040 g8 with the privacy screen. It’s the worst screen I’ve ever used. I think an old TN panel from the early 2000s had more brightness and better viewing angles. I don’t understand how HP tested this and said “yep it’s good for a $2K laptop”.
Anytime I’m by a window I can’t see what’s on the screen. Working outside is only possible if you like squinting and you’re looking at a white background with black text. Not to mention the abysmal viewing angles keep you shifting on your chair as you read.
Anyway, having a regular 13in MacBook Air or pro Retina display to hdmi would be awesome. I don’t think I’d be the only one to use it. I wouldn’t even need a stand, I’d put it right on top of this screen and be done.
> My work laptop is an HP 1040 g8 with the privacy screen. It’s the worst screen I’ve ever used. I think an old TN panel from the early 2000s had more brightness and better viewing angles. I don’t understand how HP tested this and said “yep it’s good for a $2K laptop”.
Well, that's the price you gotta pay for a laptop with privacy protectors - these things are used for restricting viewing angles so that, say, passersby on a train can't read your highly confidential PowerPoint slides full of corporate double-speak and general bullshit... and usually bought and required by organizations who think their corporate double-speak PowerPoints are so uber secret that it is worth making the lifes of their employees measurably worse in exchange.
Not to this extent. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with these screens, but the filter can be turned on and off. The previous one I had was the 840 g5 and that one had a much much MUCH nicer screen that still had the privacy filter. That one looked almost normal with the filter off. This one, 3 generations later, looks like the proof of concept model.
My work laptop is an HP 1040 g8 with the privacy screen. It’s the worst screen I’ve ever used. I think an old TN panel from the early 2000s had more brightness and better viewing angles. I don’t understand how HP tested this and said “yep it’s good for a $2K laptop”.
Anytime I’m by a window I can’t see what’s on the screen. Working outside is only possible if you like squinting and you’re looking at a white background with black text. Not to mention the abysmal viewing angles keep you shifting on your chair as you read.
Anyway, having a regular 13in MacBook Air or pro Retina display to hdmi would be awesome. I don’t think I’d be the only one to use it. I wouldn’t even need a stand, I’d put it right on top of this screen and be done.