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American McGay posted:I really want to use my 5k iMac at native resolution but it's ever so slightly too small to be comfortable for all day use. I’ve been using mine at native res for the past few months and I’m never going back. Having a full-res 4K video window in premiere is great.
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I always increase the size of things on my computers to preserve my eyes and avoid eye strain. Doesn’t work, but I try
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Nov 10, 2021 17:03
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redeyes posted:Maybe I'm missing something but there isn't a way to just make everything larger without screwing with resolution right? you mean making text larger without adjusting the resolution? probably, but scaling the resolution is the only way to do it that doesn't break window layouts and make random dialogs and menus misaligned. plus lots of applications use custom fonts rather than the system default.
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Nov 10, 2021 17:33
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The 1366x768 days were the last time I did not have to use resolution scaling to be able to read text on a laptop
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Nov 10, 2021 17:40
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I’ve been using mine at native res for the past few months and I’m never going back. Having a full-res 4K video window in premiere is great. Doesn't it work out that way anyway?
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Nov 10, 2021 17:40
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FuturePastNow posted:The 1366x768 days were the last time I did not have to use resolution scaling to be able to read text on a laptop I have PTSD from that on my 11" Air
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Nov 10, 2021 17:40
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Bad Purchase posted:you mean making text larger without adjusting the resolution? probably, but scaling the resolution is the only way to do it that doesn't break window layouts and make random dialogs and menus misaligned. plus lots of applications use custom fonts rather than the system default. Wow... windows can do this easily. Bummer. I will not recommend macs for people that can't see well.
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Nov 10, 2021 18:07
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redeyes posted:Wow... windows can do this easily. Bummer. I will not recommend macs for people that can't see well. no, the windows implementation is a good example of what i'm talking about. i don't know if you're talking about high dpi scaling, or just customizing the theme with bigger fonts, but both have issues. larger fonts make a lot of application layouts look bad or even break, and high dpi scaling isn't compatible with a lot of older win32 apps. i tried both when i used to run bootcamp on my retina mbp and it sucked poo poo. resolution scaling is the least bad way to make everything bigger in a uniform way.
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Nov 10, 2021 18:29
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Bob Morales posted:I have PTSD from that on my 11" Air oh higher-res screens are awesome, don't get me wrong, but I have to crank text up to 125-150% now and that's only going to get worse
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Nov 10, 2021 19:54
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One of the godsends of MacOS for me is the Zoom feature. Hold down Cmd and two-finger scroll to zip in to look at something in high-res (or in apps like browsers just pinch-zoom which works real well for images on web pages that are higher DPI than the browser renders at 1x size). If Windows has an equivalent of this I haven't found it. It does the dumb annoying versions of it like Magnifier, which is "press a whole weird set of keys to zoom in the whole screen to a specific predefined zoom level and leave it zoomed in and then you have to use another different keystroke to get out of it, also it takes like three seconds for the drat thing to actuate and render"
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Nov 10, 2021 20:04
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I was the guy who ran his 15" CRT at like 1600x1200 in the 90s and I haven't looked back. Now where did that "submit reply" button go? *squints*
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Nov 10, 2021 20:26
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redeyes posted:Wow... windows can do this easily. Bummer. I will not recommend macs for people that can't see well. With retina screens this isn’t a problem. It’s not like non-native res settings on Windows PCs that look like poo poo.
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Nov 10, 2021 21:19
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redeyes posted:Wow... windows can do this easily. Bummer. I will not recommend macs for people that can't see well. Scaling just by fonts alone for apps+ general GUI looks awful in Windows, and Mac OS is easily far more consistent in its scaling across all apps (even though Windows DPI scaling is 'pretty good' these days). For people with poor eyesight I'd say Mac OS is actually superior. In what situation would you want your GUI's fonts to be the only element that scaled?
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Nov 10, 2021 22:19
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Nov 10, 2021 22:23
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I don't know what version, it's Windows 10. In the Settings thing under Ease of Access/Magnifier, if I press Win-+ it flashes the cursor for like a second and then animates turning the "on" switch on, and then slowly shudderingly zooms in to the preset zoom level. I see that if I'm NOT looking at that specific settings panel it doesn't do any of that animated widget stuff and just does the zoom in, but that was far from obvious behavior.
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Nov 10, 2021 22:54
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blastron posted:I can’t imagine what the 16” would be like. I used to have a 15” MBP and it was already on the big side for me. Overall dimensions of Apple's 16-inchers aren't much bigger than the 15" machines - they had a lot of bezel on the 15" designs and cut into that to increase display size without much chassis embiggening.
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Nov 10, 2021 23:07
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jokes posted:I always increase the size of things on my computers to preserve my eyes and avoid eye strain. I have eye strain problems and something that helped a lot was making sure that the display I use most has a non flickering backlight.  Not sure how common those are but I was using a really nice, newer monitor too, so it's definitely not something that can be taken for granted.
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Nov 10, 2021 23:28
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I just run my 15" in 'default for display' rez of like 1440 x 900, and then crank it up whenever I need to tile windows or see some giant spreadsheet. The scaling works great, nothing seems fuzzier at all on the highest rez, just small for my old man eyes.
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Nov 10, 2021 23:43
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Why has Migration Assistant, which is using the TB cable that came with my Pro Display XDR and logged a transfer rate of 1555MB/s at one point, now slowed to 6.1MB/s when going from my 2018 15” MBP to a new 16” M1 Max MBP?
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Nov 11, 2021 00:29
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gregday posted:Why has Migration Assistant, which is using the TB cable that came with my Pro Display XDR and logged a transfer rate of 1555MB/s at one point, now slowed to 6.1MB/s when going from my 2018 15” MBP to a new 16” M1 Max MBP? Because it's copying a zillion tiny files or it hates you. I copied 700GB from my old MBP to the new one in less than an hour.
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have any large .git folders ? that's usually what slows my restores/migration stuff down
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Nov 11, 2021 01:01
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For me it was always my Mail.app messages. Twenty years' worth of them.
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Nov 11, 2021 01:02
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yep I had those too
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Nov 11, 2021 01:11
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doingitwrong posted:Thanks for yelling some sense into me, goons. No, get the Max, for gaming. That's what I just did. For the record, I am the dumbest motherfucker to have ever posted in this thread and have been using an eGPU setup in bootcamp with my 2016 MBP for years now and hated every single minute of it
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Nov 11, 2021 01:39
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forbidden dialectics posted:No, get the Max, for gaming. That's what I just did. 
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Nov 11, 2021 01:42
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You laugh but this was actually pretty loving sweet during a 14 hour international flight when my seatmate didn't show up (the eGPU is underneath the seat) 
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Nov 11, 2021 01:55
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forbidden dialectics posted:No, get the Max, for gaming. That's what I just did. i also got the max for gaming, its a beast
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forbidden dialectics posted:You laugh but this was actually pretty loving sweet during a 14 hour international flight when my seatmate didn't show up (the eGPU is underneath the seat) Hero.
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Nov 11, 2021 02:19
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Any rumors that apple's gonna adopt TSMC's 3D cache that AMD's introducing into their chips? It'd be a beast of an SOC with almost a gig of L3 cache on top of the 200GB/sec RAM.
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Nov 11, 2021 02:59
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Is it weird to think that the next M1 update (whatever follows Max), might open Macs up to gamers? Between the Max benchmarks and cloud gaming latency improvements it feels like I might not have to keep building a separate gaming PC in the future…
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Nov 11, 2021 03:22
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Buy an Xbox instead of spending $3500 on a laptop and hoping that this will finally be the year you can play games on it.
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Nov 11, 2021 03:24
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American McGay posted:Buy an Xbox instead of spending $3500 on a laptop and hoping that this will finally be the year you can play games on it. no
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Nov 11, 2021 03:27
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American McGay posted:Buy an Xbox instead of spending $3500 on a laptop and hoping that this will finally be the year you can play games on it. The new Xbox and PS5 are impossible to buy at least at retail and I just refuse to pay some scalper
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It's pretty funny that the M1 Max is the only powerful gpu you can easily buy right now, its even on a better node than a 3090.
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Nov 11, 2021 05:36
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Mu Zeta posted:The new Xbox and PS5 are impossible to buy at least at retail and I just refuse to pay some scalper Yes, clearly the $3000 laptop with no games is the better option
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Gray Ghost posted:Is it weird to think that the next M1 update (whatever follows Max), might open Macs up to gamers? It won’t. Buy literally anything else if you want to play games.
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Games being released for the Mac will open up Macs for gamers. There’s a lot of games out there that natively support Macs, and they run very well, but this is a minority, especially in the AAA sphere. Nobody but the most strident Mac gaming diehards are going to set up Parallels so they can run Windows-only titles. If you want a computer whose primary purpose is to play games, you will likely never want a Mac. If you have a Mac for other reasons and want to run games on it, there are options.
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Nov 11, 2021 08:30
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Series X for games, Mac for everything else. Living in the dream world. Switch for the toilet gaming.
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Nov 11, 2021 08:34
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FuturePastNow posted:The 1366x768 days were the last time I did not have to use resolution scaling to be able to read text on a laptop i'm pretty sure every windows laptop under £500 still has that screen resolution if you ever feel like going back
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If you’re already spending ~$3k on a laptop for non-gaming poo poo I don’t think it’s that weird to spend another $500 on the beefy GPU with the intent of loving around with making games work on it and participating in a community of like-minded hobbyists
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