MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by stephen_g on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:46PM (#28914641)

This doesn't gel with my experience at all. Yes, past MacBooks weren't necessarily integer scaling (with this new display the default setting and what most people use will be though as far as I understand), and non-integer scaling is not ideal. But on my last two MacBooks at least the screen is visually plenty sharp, and looks way, way, better than the regular-DPI external monitors I still have (whether the external monitor is connected to the Mac or a Windows PC). And above all, my experience with Mac is that high-DPI has actually worked from the beginning, whereas on Windows I still have some apps that break if the scaling is not set to 100%!

Even right at the start, old apps would look a bit blurry but would still at least be in the correct proportions on macOS, whereas with the Windows scaling a lot of stuff just wouldn't work!

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by chrismorgan on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:29AM (#28914886)

I have no direct personal experience on high-DPI macOS. For Windows, I’ve only come across a couple of apps that claimed to support high DPI but severely mangled it, and they both got fixed before long; and a few others that had minor problems, e.g. opening windows at unscaled sizes so that you had to resize them, or rendering small icons. And to be sure there are various DPI-unaware apps, probably far more than on macOS (linked to why Apple was in the perfect position to implement and impose proper fractional scaling), but that’s not a serious problem either.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by je42 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @02:40AM (#28915436)

thats the issue with windows (and linux). highdpi displays are still rare (i did say: <10%), hence a lot of developers dont support it well in their applications. on mac however highdpi is the default.all apps i have used that is native macosx works fine.

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