Yeah its a little strange. The OP is bound and determined to make everyone think that their device is garbage just because he find it not to his liking. I don’t understand threads like this. If you don’t like something just take it back and move on.
This thread is not just the comments or opinions of one person. OP spoke of something different initially, talking about the 120hz not really being achieved properly in the fullest possible sense
because of the slow response time. And he is right about that, technically and mathematically speaking. He just worded it in an aggressive way, but his point is valid as you need a certain amount of response time to be reached for 120hz to be fully utilized without extra blur. You still get 120hz, it's just worse than it can be.
I don't think these laptops are garbage. I do wholeheartedly believe, though, that a mindset such as "do not offend my product" is garbage. It's worse for every consumer out there, and good for a trillion-dollar company. Which, by the way, will never go out of its way to defend you like you defend it. Bit of a sad dynamic if you ask me. What are you getting out of it? A sense of pride and accomplishment?
The dynamic should be much simpler than that - you pay good money, you want to get the best you can get for that amount of money. This does not mean that some random windows laptop will be superior. By the very minimum, macOS and Windows are two entirely different systems that excel in different aspects and compete with each other. Why would a macOS user use Windows if they want to use macOS?? That makes no sense whatsoever. It would not make sense for me to recommend you a Windows laptop. I realize that because I can use my head for thinking purposes.
Actual problems are that response times are not advertised at all. Youtuber reviewers are vastly ignoring such specs. To me, that is unfair advertising. Especially when you consider the huge difference between the black to white response time between the 14 inch and the 16 inch model. It's almost twice as slow on the 16 inch. Those are
different screens in that regard. But you are not aware of that while ordering the machine. That is deceptive by the very minimum.
People against complaints in these threads are more or less defending such a practice religiously and that is simply baffling. Yes, you can return the product if you are not happy with it, DEPENDING on where you live. Not everyone is in the USA. Trust me, returning a product is a million times harder in some other regions. Like in my country, the seller first does everything in their power to stop you from returning or replacing anything. The customer is always wrong where I live. And I am taking these things into account.
If the response times were even mentioned in some tech spec sheet, I wouldn't complain at all. It would be visible for everyone to make their decision based on the real specs. If you saw 92ms response time and bought it, then you knew what you are getting so it's on you.
But in this thread some people went as far as to defend slow responsiveness as a good thing. That is delusional. Don't be like that because it's bad for all of us.
As mentioned previously, change begins with the people when they start asking for more. Over the years, people did ask for higher refresh rates and finally we have 120Hz screens on virtually all apple devices, which will continue with next models too. People asked for a better and more reliable keyboard and thus the low quality butterfly switches were replaced with magic switches.
If people do start asking for faster response times, they might get them one day in Apple laptops and standalone screens. You already have a very beautiful and fast screen on the iPhone 13 Pro and that's really good.
The whole "if you don't like it don't write about it" mentality is broken and backwards, and only serves to hurt the consumer. Those who cannot grasp that have no business writing in criticism-centered threads, to be honest. They should just enjoy their devices instead of coming up with asinine explanations of why drawbacks are a good thing. You might not care about these drawbacks. Why do you think that applies for everyone, though? Your lower standards are yours alone, not objective facts. If you cannot tell the difference between a screen and a twice as slow screen, that is on you. Don't push that agenda as if it is true for every user. I am not pushing an agenda that everyone will suffer from this. I am only stating how things are on a technical spec level. Similarly, you can drive a slower car than mine and that doesn't mean you will have a bad time driving it. For someone who wants a fast car, though, they will prefer a fast car and not a slow car.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that constant PWM was also discussed as a potentially serious drawback. It means that the screen constantly flickers at a certain frequency, but the new models do this at ALL brightness levels. This is really, really bad for
some people who are very sensitive to the flickering. How can anyone say the screen has no drawbacks with such specs is honestly beyond me. Yes, most people will not notice this. But once again, this is NOT mentioned anywhere in the tech specs when you purchase the machine. If you are sensitive to it, you will know after using it for days and getting a headache (from which some users have already complained and returned the machine. Not out of spite, they did it regretting not being able to use it normally).
By the very minimum the tech specs should be laid out completely. But it will make the product look worse by revealing the drawbacks. And it's as if some people are against that. Why? It's good for us to know these things beforehand. Not after a month of testing has been done by some reviewer like notebookcheck.
