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

[Steve Harris]

Ah, is that the rule! It's bloody annoying.

I've deleted the wrong message too many times now.

- Steve

On 2013-02-18, at 13:54, Hugh Glaser <hg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Yeah, the days when Apple stuck to their guidelines in the HIG are looooong gone.
> I've lost count of the times I have deleted the wrong message in the email list because when you delete one, the one it selects next depends on whether the next message has been read or not.
> WTF.
> And that's just for starters - oh dear, you started me off.
> 
> On 18 Feb 2013, at 13:47, Steve Harris <swh at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-02-18, at 13:37, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 18 Feb 2013, at 13:32, Steve Harris <swh at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2013-02-18, at 13:17, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 18 Feb 2013, 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, and for others who commented.  The issue with the 13" RMBP is that the 'optimal' resolution is frankly rubbish; the whole point of improved display technology should be to deliver a useful screen real estate, without making us even more blind than we are, of course.  But I'll take a peek at Jules' baby... :)
>>>> 
>>>> It does still increase the effective real estate (font sizes in apps are/can be smaller), but the furniture stays the same size.
>>>> 
>>>> That said, I still prefer turning up the "looks like" res.
>>> 
>>> I couldn't find a way to reduce font size in the Mail App index pane.  In the mail contents pane, yes.  I prefer to see more listed emails at a time, but I guess there's some option I missed (aside from showing less preview lines).
>> 
>> Could be there isn't an option - I turned up the message font slightly (compared to what I had on my old MBP), but the list font is unchanged.
>> 
>> - Steve
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