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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Mon, 27 October 2025, 10:18:15
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Should we just retire these?
Is there a good reason to keep making 60hz.
:D
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You are 60hz. :-Þ
Not everyone needs a gaming monitor.
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But there's no advantage, and the chips cost the same.
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There's more to a screen than just a chip and the typical office has no need for anything more.
And there is a reason to keep them, power efficiency.
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But they already invented adaptive refresh, so the display can go down to 20hz if necessary. Offices are all plugged in, the fraction of a watt only makes a huge impact on cellphones, about 8.5%, On laptops the difference is 1-2% (properly designed).
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60hrz will still exist for ****ty bulk office monitors
They will probably stay at 1080p till the 2030s as well
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What I mean is that in offices, it is more important to use available power and bandwidth for more screen real-estate than for high refresh rates.
At my last workplace, we all had dual 2560×1440p screens connected to laptops over single USB-C, and I mean everyone... Well, except for that guy who had a single 5120×1440 super ultra-wide.
And that USB-C was also used for network, keyboard, mouse and headset. Many non-Thinkpads would have required it for power as well.
If we had used Macs, it would have been worse, because those practically require "retina"-level PPI as well.