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2049 points bpierre | 6 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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plank ◴[30 Mar 16 18:04 UTC] No.11391528[source]▶
Confused: can we now START or STOP bashing windows?
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1. deagle50 ◴[30 Mar 16 18:45 UTC] No.11391850[source]▶
After they fix highdpi scaling
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2. insulanian ◴[30 Mar 16 20:15 UTC] No.11392601[source]▶
Oh yes... That's one of the reasons I switched to OSX.
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3. deagle50 ◴[30 Mar 16 22:26 UTC] No.11393522[source]▶
no kidding, I have a 4K monitor that looks awesome when hooked up my macbook and terrible when hooked up to my Windows desktop
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4. randyrand ◴[31 Mar 16 01:12 UTC] No.11394319{3}[source]▶
Win10 on my dual 4ks looks great. What issues do you have?
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5. davesque ◴[31 Mar 16 01:24 UTC] No.11394374[source]▶
They're working on it. The rub now is that they can't handle (last I checked) using two monitors with significantly different DPIs. At least, that's how it was with my retina macbook and using an external monitor that was low DPI.
6. deagle50 ◴[31 Mar 16 03:32 UTC] No.11394809{4}[source]▶
I'm not really sure if you're serious about this question...

Well the task manager for example, the header is rendered per pixel, the rest of the window is a blurry mess. File Explorer window scales with DPI setting but for some reason the fonts still render at 4k pixel size even at 175% scaling making it very hard to read. Chrome looks like its rendering at much lower resolution then blowing back up. Resizing a busy window chugs my GTX 980 yet the Haswell integrated GPU on my MBP 13" handles 5120x2800 pretty well on OSX.

Why can't they just supersample the user-selected resolution then shrink back down to 4k like OSX? Everyone already has retina assets for their app.