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The 27" 5k LG displays are a really awkward resolution. Running with 100% display scaling, text is too small to read. Running at 200%, screen real estate is not
by cosmotic 5y ago
The 27" 5k LG displays are a really awkward resolution. Running with 100% display scaling, text is too small to read. Running at 200%, screen real estate is not big enough. This leaves non-whole-number ratios which cause crazy problems with macos font rendering; text glistens as you move a window around and even/odd pixels are doubled or not. There's no way to get clear text. Windows handles this much better.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoPersonally, 5120x2880 27" running at 2x is perfect (well, except that it's 16:9 instead of 16:10, but one can't have everything I suppose). Anything lower (e.g. 1.75x or 1.5x) would make UI elements unusably small for me. I don't own one of those LG's, but I do have an iMac that uses the same display panel and it's by far the best desktop class display I've ever used in every regard but refresh rate. The only problem is that it's tied to the iMac with the integrated Intel hardware aging like milk. The LG display has myriad issues which make it a terrible purchase for the money, so it's not a good alternative. For me the awkward point are 4k 27" displays: not high resolution enough to run at 2x, too high resolution to use at 1x, and smudgy text at any fractional scale. I really wish that 5k 27" would replace 4k 27" entirely in the market.
- tomjen3 5y agoI have a 27 4k LG display and it has GUI scaling set to 200% (so smooth fonts and images, but readable text) and there is plenty of real estate.