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My iPhone 15 Pro goes from 120hz to 60hz when I turn low battery mode on, and yes it’s extremely noticeable to me. Scrolling lemmy or a long web page results in noticeable tearing. It’s so bad that I thought it was like 30hz until I looked it up.
On my MacBooks, yeah I’m on a website and/or in a vm on a terminal session 99.9% of the time. It could be locked to 5hz and I wouldn’t much care.
To answer your question in the post though, from what I’ve noticed while gaming on my pc, I don’t perceive any difference between ~90hz/fps and 160hz/fps (limit of my VRR panel). I definitely do notice issues with frame timings. I’d rather lock my frame rate somewhere like 120fps than to hit 160 with inconsistent timings.
If the option is 60 vs 120 hz, I’m gonna need 120hz. I really like that you can match frame rate or manually lower the mbp’s refresh rate, really saves battery life when I’m doing the aforementioned terminal stuff or watching a movie on a plane or something.