Macbook Pro 17" Hi-Resolution LED widescreen question

Question

I'm thinking about purchasing a Macbook Pro but I was wondering, is it worth spending the extra bucks for graphics and video on the 17" with Hi-Resolution LED widescreen or is the Hi-Resolution LED widescreen meant for HD playback?

Answer 1

Wow, seems like this is a problem many people are dealing with and something Apple can't or won't fix at the moment. Wish I knew this before I ordered it. For more information here's a series of postings from a different forum. If you don't feel like reading it all, scroll to the bottom. That describes what I see on my High Res exactly!!
Anyone know if the resolution independence stuff made it into Leopard?
Monaco 9 is going to look pretty darn small if it didn't ...
-- Verne
I don't believe so.
Steve
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More options Mar 5, 8:43 am
Verne Arase <[email protected]> wrote:
Anyone know if the resolution independence stuff made it into Leopard?
Not in a complete sense. It is there under the hood, available for
application developers to test with, but isn't turned on yet for the end
user because there are too many applications which can't handle it,
including many of Apple's ones.
On Mar 5, 2:43 am, [email protected] (David Empson) wrote:
Not in a complete sense. It is there under the hood, available for
application developers to test with, but isn't turned on yet for the end
user because there are too many applications which can't handle it,
including many of Apple's ones.
Is there no way of increasing font size for native tool and menu bars
(whatever the term is)? On a 1920x1200 they go microscopic, and
workarounds aren't very satisfactory. Zooming or else flipping to
lower resolution seems to give fuzzy results, worse than a similar
laptop with a lower native resolution.
One of the problems seems to be a font smoothing algorithm. Put aside
the actual issue of font smoothing and whether you want it or not... I
believe I am talking about a side effect. Try turning off the "image
smoothing" buried deep in the sys-pref/keyboard/trackpad (of all
places). This seems to crisp up the font considerably - it looks
untidy if you zoom in, but without it (even unzoomed) it is as if a
greasy film all over your glasses and you can't focus at all. There is
also a sys-pref for small font smoothing which doesn't appear to work.
With hostile human factors for fonts, it just compounds the pain of
other eccentric factors. That stupid grey font that is used for
example in itunes is too low contrast. Similarly the bookmark bar of
safari is unreadable due to the darkening of the entire top part for
an active screen, which gives no contrast. "universal access" is
pretty useless or else overkillI, and I have searched for endless
"preference" screens to tweak these without much luck...