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They actually had hi-res screens 10 years ago? Like I'm 2013? Resolution is 1600. That's pretty high for a 10 year old laptop
That sounds about right for the first retina MacBooks
Yup
Yeah, I believe these were one the first retinas with 200+ ppi. Honestly, for a person who spends most of the time staring at a code or a text, hidpi is basically a necessity for me at this point. So the fact that slack or vscode had such a bad support for fractional scaling is a huge deal for me. (Wayland fixes this in some instances as I mentioned)
Oh, tell me about the hi dpi. I can't believing that 1080p is actually still a thing in 2023 on laptops. Especially on anything 15" or bigger. It looks like dogshit and I can see every single pixel. Everything in my house is 4K except my two work monitors, and they're 1080p. I can't stand them. I think 1080p is ok for gaming, but that's about it.