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Well, as long as you use Hi-DPI (or "Retina", as Apple likes to call them) displays over your entire product line, subpixel rendering doesn't have as big of an
by rob74 5y ago
Well, as long as you use Hi-DPI (or "Retina", as Apple likes to call them) displays over your entire product line, subpixel rendering doesn't have as big of an impact anymore. I also suspect that's what's going on with the designers who are wont to disable subpixel rendering for their sites: they also mostly have Macs with Hi-DPI screens, so they don't see the benefit of subpixel rendering.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoApple’s MacBook Air, from 2019, was the last MacBook with a non-retina display - which was only 2 years ago.
- NBJack 5y agoThis goes out the window the moment you attach a second monitor for most folks. 1080p is very common; if we start talking about achieving retina at that resolution (say 220 DPI, a rough average across modern Macbooks), we're talking 10-inch displays. Even at 4k we're talking a max size of 19 inches or so before things get outside of Apple's ideal DPI. I can't speak for you, but for my work and current eyeglass prescription, 27 inches is my starting point for comfort. Even if I dislike it, Apple seems to have removed the global option to turn font smoothing off in Big Sur.