I think there needs to be some clarification as to what "seeing the pixels" means. If you lean in close enough you can actually see the individual RGB componen

I think there needs to be some clarification as to what "seeing the pixels" means. If you lean in close enough you can actually see the individual RGB components. Further back and you can see the separation between pixels still. Even further back and you can make out the difference between something that's aliased and anti-aliased. When someone says you can "see the pixels" I think of the second level there, where you can see gaps between the individual pixels. However upping the resolution can help decrease the jagginess in things like non-anti-aliased text.