1920 x 1080 screen - how best to read text

[vasra]

Please remember that the answers will also depend on your eyesight. If you are already 40+ and enjoy presbyopia like some of us, then really tiny pixels (high res, low physical size) can cause squinting, headaches and tired eyes. Bi-focals or no bi-focals

Then again if you are 20 with 20/20 eyesight, I'd guess that even 13" 1920x1080 (sony SZ) is passable, esp. if you are wiling to view the screen from quite close.

I also want full-hd for my next laptop, but 13" is just too small a size to accommodate full-hd res *for me*. YMMV, of course.

BTW, some apps, esp. more obscure ones using their own GUI toolkits go haywire if you increase the system level DPI setting. The only solution: lower the display resolution (aka interpolate and lose the benefit of higher pixel count) or use a secondary lower-dpi display for those apps.

[Blackjab24]

I'm rockin 1920 x 1200 on a 15.4in screen. After a month or so my eyes just got used to it, and now any resolution under 1920x1200 is weird to me lol

[trvelbug]

Originally Posted by vasra

BTW, some apps, esp. more obscure ones using their own GUI toolkits go haywire if you increase the system level DPI setting. The only solution: lower the display resolution (aka interpolate and lose the benefit of higher pixel count) or use a secondary lower-dpi display for those apps.

QFT
i use to get funny/unreadable fonts in some games using OS level font resizing.
i always use an applications zoom feature instead. for most modern apps like chrome and office its as easy as control plus mouse wheel.

[qmrneo]

The text are small in 1920 x 1080 @ 15" while reading, zoom in is the option for easy view.