Display issue - Photoshop useless with Dell XPS15

Hi I ve recent'y bought a Dell XPS15 designed for graphism but Photoshop display is too small(useless). It's fine with illustrator and indesign. Any solution? i ve seen I'm not the only one like that. Thanks a lot for your help.

Trevor.Dennis wrote:
You've bought a 15 inch notebook with a 3200 x 1800 display, and stuff looks small on it? What on earth did you expect?
That's not the point, Trevor, and a somewhat belittling comment to make: the OP obviously meant that Photoshop's GUI is tiny looking on a retina screen.
If you happen to be using Photoshop CC, you can got to Preferences > Experimental features and check Scale UI 200%... What that will do is turn your 3200 x 1800 display into a 1600 x 900 display. I hope you can see the irony in that.
That is an untrue and a ridiculous statement: the 200% patch scales up the GUI elements, and certainly DOES NOT decrease her retina display resolution to a 1600 x 900 one. The guides, images, pixels, and so on still display at 3200x1800px.
As a matter of fact, a couple of users working on retina screens in this forum have already complained about the guides being too thin for comfort, since the 200% patch (yes, it is a patch, and not a real solution) only takes GUI elements into account.
Retina screens are common place technology, and have been for a while now. Photoshop is still having issues with Retina screens on Windows, and it ought to have been fixed by now after years of complaints by users. That is the issue at hand here - not the supposedly unwise (in your opinion) decision to purchase a laptop with a retina screen.
And regarding CS6: I find it ridiculous that Adobe continues to sell CS6 without a disclaimer or warning that some applications' GUIs are incompatible with retina screens on Windows. Warn potential customers, fix it, or stop selling it. Since Adobe made it quite abundantly clear they have no intention to fix this issue in CS6, at the very least a warning in the system requirements ought to be issued about retina screen incompatibilities.

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