Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by ascagnel_ on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:04AM
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Apple redid font smoothing with Mojave, and now it looks like garbage on non-retina displays. Most 4K displays seem to be bigger, rather than denser, so you can't do much to fix it.
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I brought an Apple PowerBook G4 back in 2005, and one of the standard system configs allowed you to calibrate the subpixel rendering parameters of fonts for the built-in display, as well as any external displays. It remembers each external display by serial model so that it could load the correct calibration profile for that particular display each time it's plugged in. I must have obsessively calibrated each of my displays at least ten times.
Was this feature removed from OSX? Or did OP try it already and it didn't help much? Honest question here; I haven't touched a mac in over a decade.
I tried. It didn't help, the root issue is that Apple removed anti-aliasing, which is the only thing that can make fonts look readable on a 1080p resolution display. An old MacBook running OSX 10.6 looks perfectly fine on my external monitor.
Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by thatfrenchguy on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:06PM
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http://osxdaily.com/2018/09/26/fix-blurry-thin-fonts-text-ma...
Fixed the issue for me.
Thanks, but I tried that some time ago. It didn't make much of a difference.
Which is why I maintain that 27" 4K is the sweet spot size and resolution wise for productivity.
I've got an LG one at home, and heading into work where I have 2 27" monitors, but only 1440p always feels like a downgrade.