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Nevermarktoday at 11:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Pixel density continues to rise, but Microsoft might be engaged in… premature de-optimization?

It’s duals/mirrors all the way down. Or up.


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adornKeytoday at 1:01 PM

But the angular resolution of the eye doesn't rise. For a desktop monitor 100 ppi practically already reached the limits. Anything beyond that is just additional burden for the GPU and a waste of bandwidth. Surely you can increase resolution just to make font rendering easier, but you also have to pay the price in energy consumption or speed - without any visible improvement.

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