[OSX-Users] Re: 13" MBP + Retina display

[Steve Harris]

On 2013-02-18, at 11:50, Andrew Paul Landells <andy at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 17 Feb 2013, at 16:38, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I'm interested in any comments, but in particular how the display looks when scaled to 1680x1050, given the default 'optimal' setting is 1280x800 (half the screen resolution of 2560x1600).  I do like having extra screen real estate :)
> 
> I can't comment for the 13" Retina, but my experience of the 15" model is that the scaled modes are absolutely fine. I prefer the 'optimal' resolution of 1440x900 because that's about the best balance for screen real estate vs. pixel size for me, but I've never noticed any reduction in quality when using the other scaled modes.

I get fuzzy and aliased fonts e.g. on the Twitter desktop client. It's fairly annoying, but I can live with it. I've attached an example next to some normal retina text.

Very few things are affected, it would probably stand out less if everything else wasn't razor sharp.

- Steve

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