Thanks to @kieran for posting this poll.
While on battery, one could just run a 4K screen at FHD and save power while maybe also increasing the refresh rate.
True, 2560 isn’t much above 1920, but then again it’s close to practical perception limits, so it does make an outsized difference to some of us, and a little moreso with 4K.
There’s just something innately unsatisfying with the notion that we have cheap 4K/60 cameras nowdays, but can’t hope to play it back on a much beefier device.
In the thread linked below, @amosbatto found a source of 2560x1440 LCDs for a modest premium, which judging by the polls thus far, might constitute a reasonable compromise.
As to fractional scaling factors, desktop aspect ratios are all over the place: 16:10, 16:9, 4:3, etc. They all suck for coding, for the most part, so I don’t see things getting much worse if we’re stuck with integer scaling. Even so, if this became an issue, one could just drop the resolution to FHD.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/questions-on-road-warrior-laptop/9670/21