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No. My screen is 1440x900 and it's honestly as big as I want it to go. See, what usually happens is that when you increase resolution, everything becomes smalle

by dendory 14y ago

No. My screen is 1440x900 and it's honestly as big as I want it to go. See, what usually happens is that when you increase resolution, everything becomes smaller. Desktop icons, text in apps, web sites. Yes you can manually resize everything but it's a pain and it doesn't always work right. Web pages get deformed since you're only changing the fonts. And it's not like I'm ever watching movies in higher resolution than HD. So I'll keep my 'low' resolution screens.

jswinghammer 14y ago
Couldn't you just lower the setting?
- _delirium 14y ago
  Laptop screens typically look fairly bad when at anything other than their "native" resolution. A bit less flexible than ye olde CRTs in that respect.
  - jonknee 14y ago
    Though this is much less the case with high res screens, Apple's retina laptops for example are usabe at different resolutions.
    - mertd 14y ago
      The difference is how the signal is sent. When you change the resolution in XP for instance, a low res picture gets sent to the display which then has to up sample it, and it looks sucky. On the new MBP the picture sent is always the native resolution of the monitor, you just change the size of the UI elements according to your preference.
zephod 14y ago
Did you even read as far as the "atomic wedgie" part?
adestefan 14y ago
What really needs to happen is for desktops to become resolution independent so that you can set the size of the elements based upon your preference and not some fixed pixel grid.
- astrange 14y ago
  It is very difficult to design UIs in the desktop style that can stand up to DPI changes like that and not end up with text rendering problems or pixel cracks between elements. That's why OS X only supports 1x and 2x HiDPI; everything else just resizes the whole screen.
Symmetry 14y ago
Your operating system might not be able to handle more resolution, but the OS that comes with pretty much any new computer (Windows 8 or Mountain Lion) is going to be handle it fine, so there's no reason not to have higher DPI on new laptops.
hmottestad 14y ago
My screen has 2880x1880 and the fonts are as big as they used to be on my old 1680x1050 (or your 1440x900 screen). It's just much more comfortable to read on it and pictures look amazing. If you really wanted to you could make everything tiny, but you don't need to. And finally, head over to an apple store and take a look at their retina macbook pro and try comparing it to a normal macbook pro.

by dendory 14y ago

jswinghammer 14y ago

Couldn't you just lower the setting?

_delirium 14y ago
Laptop screens typically look fairly bad when at anything other than their "native" resolution. A bit less flexible than ye olde CRTs in that respect.
- jonknee 14y ago
  Though this is much less the case with high res screens, Apple's retina laptops for example are usabe at different resolutions.
  - mertd 14y ago
    The difference is how the signal is sent. When you change the resolution in XP for instance, a low res picture gets sent to the display which then has to up sample it, and it looks sucky. On the new MBP the picture sent is always the native resolution of the monitor, you just change the size of the UI elements according to your preference.

zephod 14y ago

Did you even read as far as the "atomic wedgie" part?

adestefan 14y ago

What really needs to happen is for desktops to become resolution independent so that you can set the size of the elements based upon your preference and not some fixed pixel grid.

astrange 14y ago
It is very difficult to design UIs in the desktop style that can stand up to DPI changes like that and not end up with text rendering problems or pixel cracks between elements. That's why OS X only supports 1x and 2x HiDPI; everything else just resizes the whole screen.

Symmetry 14y ago

Your operating system might not be able to handle more resolution, but the OS that comes with pretty much any new computer (Windows 8 or Mountain Lion) is going to be handle it fine, so there's no reason not to have higher DPI on new laptops.

hmottestad 14y ago

My screen has 2880x1880 and the fonts are as big as they used to be on my old 1680x1050 (or your 1440x900 screen). It's just much more comfortable to read on it and pictures look amazing. If you really wanted to you could make everything tiny, but you don't need to. And finally, head over to an apple store and take a look at their retina macbook pro and try comparing it to a normal macbook pro.