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What's the PPI of the display you're using? I don't have access to anything >200PPI to test on and I'm curious to know how much better it looks under those cond

What's the PPI of the display you're using? I don't have access to anything >200PPI to test on and I'm curious to know how much better it looks under those conditions. It would be nice to have a Cleartype toggle since the vast majority of current Windows consumers won't have a display that will make the "blurry" fonts look good.

MichaelGG 12y ago
I'm using normal screens with whatever the default DPI setting is. 1080 on a 12-20" depending on laptop or desktop. Microsoft has been going on about high-dpi displays since 2003 (Longhorn PDC) and they aren't really around yet on Windows machines. So they absolutely should have this toggle, and set it to properly render unless the user has high-dpi. This is just a stubborn thing they're doing. Similar to the ALL CAPS phase or the Win8 junk they went through. Or similar to how WPF had messed up font rendering until Visual Studio started using it.
- seanmcdirmid 12y ago
  I run 150 DPI on my desktop, 220 DPI on my laptop. High resolution screens are definitely around for Windows machines if you can pay the extra few hundred dollars for them. I'm not going back to low res displays, though I do much prefer OS X font smoothing for those screens.
  - MichaelGG 12y ago
    Well it's 2015, and the only real X series ThinkPad maxes out at 1080p. So, yeah, I could go HiDPI and lose all the screen real-estate, but that seems like a poor tradeoff. I'd have to get a larger, more limited, device like the X1 (really, the only other option) to enjoy HiDPI without having a small desktop. And, all things considered, I don't think hidpi is ready yet. ThinkPads already overheat and have shitty battery life. Having to handle 4x the pixels seems like it'll only hurt things. Though I must admit, I am always blown away when looking at the Macbook Retina screen.
    - seanmcdirmid 12y ago
      Plenty of ultra books have HiDPI displays these days. It really is a better experience, even just for coding. I can't wait for 4X to become the standard so we don't have to ship duplicate bitmaps with everything.
      - MichaelGG 12y ago
        Any recommendations on something as good as the old X series? Ultrabooks tend to have crap keyboards and no-button, Maclike clickpads. And many are considerably larger than 12", even when they do strange things to get "thin".
        seanmcdirmid 12y ago
        No, frankly I can't stand anything other than a Macbook. I heard the new XPS 13 is supposed to be really good, but I haven't been able to try one yet.
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MichaelGG 12y ago

I'm using normal screens with whatever the default DPI setting is. 1080 on a 12-20" depending on laptop or desktop. Microsoft has been going on about high-dpi displays since 2003 (Longhorn PDC) and they aren't really around yet on Windows machines. So they absolutely should have this toggle, and set it to properly render unless the user has high-dpi. This is just a stubborn thing they're doing. Similar to the ALL CAPS phase or the Win8 junk they went through. Or similar to how WPF had messed up font rendering until Visual Studio started using it.

seanmcdirmid 12y ago
I run 150 DPI on my desktop, 220 DPI on my laptop. High resolution screens are definitely around for Windows machines if you can pay the extra few hundred dollars for them. I'm not going back to low res displays, though I do much prefer OS X font smoothing for those screens.
- MichaelGG 12y ago
  Well it's 2015, and the only real X series ThinkPad maxes out at 1080p. So, yeah, I could go HiDPI and lose all the screen real-estate, but that seems like a poor tradeoff. I'd have to get a larger, more limited, device like the X1 (really, the only other option) to enjoy HiDPI without having a small desktop. And, all things considered, I don't think hidpi is ready yet. ThinkPads already overheat and have shitty battery life. Having to handle 4x the pixels seems like it'll only hurt things. Though I must admit, I am always blown away when looking at the Macbook Retina screen.
  - seanmcdirmid 12y ago
    Plenty of ultra books have HiDPI displays these days. It really is a better experience, even just for coding. I can't wait for 4X to become the standard so we don't have to ship duplicate bitmaps with everything.
    - MichaelGG 12y ago
      Any recommendations on something as good as the old X series? Ultrabooks tend to have crap keyboards and no-button, Maclike clickpads. And many are considerably larger than 12", even when they do strange things to get "thin".
      - seanmcdirmid 12y ago
        No, frankly I can't stand anything other than a Macbook. I heard the new XPS 13 is supposed to be really good, but I haven't been able to try one yet.
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