What are you people on about?
My gran has her PC on 800x600 because shes nearly blind, its makes it massive but not blurry.
( Peej, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:01, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Depends on how close she is
and if she's nearly blind she won't see the blurring anyway.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:06, Reply)

I just set my mac to the lowest res.
and I am sat about a foot away and it didn't blur.
( Peej, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:08, Reply)

If it's a flat panel screen, it has a native resolution.
This is the ONLY resolution that displays a true image. Every single other resolution is fiddled with by the GPU in a process called interpolation. This resizes the output to the native res of the monitor. It stretches it, or shrinks it. This can make the display look blurry.

If yours doesn't, you either have a very good GPU, or really shitty eyes.
( Kroney, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:14, Reply)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
Very good for a laptop thanks.
( Peej, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:29, Reply)

As above, your Mac monitor is not a TV.
It will display any suitable resolution you choose, but it'll do it by grouping/dithering pixels to suit. This may make text appear blurred, depending on the native and set resolutions.
Whatever you set doesn't change the number of pixels shown, it just forces the electronics to do something clever to try and make them match up.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:15, Reply)

I hate users.

( Kroney, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:15, Reply)

I hate this subject particularly
Most users don't want to know about the relationship between resolution and size, so when they get a bigger monitor, they complain everything's too small, reduce the res, then complain cos they can't get any more on screen than they could before!
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:20, Reply)

Well, we should get around to PJ's house
because apparently he's got a magical television that works in a completely different way to all others on Earth. We could make millions!
( Kroney, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:21, Reply)

He has 5 of them AKTCHERLLY

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:23, Reply)

No, thats just in my shed
And they are monitors
( Peej, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:24, Reply)

I got a Retina MBP, and it pisses me off that I can't pick a 'resolution', only a slider with 'smaller' to 'bigger'.
And when I take screenshots, they're naturally double the size, but its annoying as none of my punters have one.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:36, Reply)

Thats because the Retina has a native resolution of 2880×1800 which makes all the text look tiny
So they have scaling. You get the benefit of Retina at any scaling, no other display/computer can do that. This is also the best interim solution considering the non-retina design of almost all software and websites.
( Peej, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 16:04, Reply)

Yup, deffo. Doesn't make it non annoying though as someone who has to think in pixels =)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 16:36, Reply)