I'm pretty sensitive to the artifacts introduced via smoothing, though some don't notice it at all. It was so bad and so weird in so many ways on so many sites

I'm pretty sensitive to the artifacts introduced via smoothing, though some don't notice it at all. It was so bad and so weird in so many ways on so many sites that I turned it off altogether for a time. I preferred to break layouts and circumvent the designers' intent rather than look at those hairy little beasts they called letters. Luckily, this is one of the few things that high-resolution screens truly do fix and the main reason I bought an iPad 3. When smoothing is done on a level where you can perceive the pixels, it's crude and, for me, ineffective. But when you pass the ~200ppi mark, it starts actually fading into curves and marks rather than polychromatic halos. I'm thankful for this, but wish I could get a desktop OS and monitor that really excelled in text display. For now, every time I want to read something long on the net, I absolutely have to send it to my iPad. As far as inconveniences go it's pretty minor, but we can do better.