Is it inconvenient to use PC with high resolution display?

ByKārlis Dambrāns

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Scott has done so farLenovo X1 Carbon TouchI used a PC with a resolution of 1600 x 900, but recently it was newLenovo Yoga 2 ProI bought a PC called. It is a high-performance PC that has a 13.3-inch IPS liquid crystal with LED backlight, a 10-point multi-touch panel, SSD and the resolution of the display is 3200 × 1800.


He uses an application that can get on the Windows Store with this PC. It is said that these applications are arranged to display well on high resolution displays. However, it seems that many other old Windows applications other than these are used.

Such Scott encounters the "font size" problem on the display of Yoga 2 Pro. The problem is that characters of applications that are not supposed to be used on a high resolution display are displayed enormously or smallly. He states that this is an issue of the app developer.


For example, an application called Windows Live Writer (WLW) that Scott uses when writing blogs. In this application, it seems that the image displayed in the same document was displayed in half of the actual size, and when uploading to the blog, the size of the font and the image were messed up.


In Adobe-related software, it seems that large size characters and small size characters are mixed and displayed, and if it is Adobe Reader, it is displayed like this.


It is like Adobe Flash Player Installer. The character was too small to be read.


Dropbox is also displayed too small font size ......


In the synchronized screen, the sense of size between the font size and the icon does not match, so you do not know which item you are checking.


In SQL Server Management Studio, the font size becomes too large, making it difficult to determine what you are selecting.


It is effective to display icons such as arrows on each item in order to revise the size of the text size generated on the high resolution display.


Of course, there are superior appearance apps even on high resolution display. Visual Studio 2013 does not have a problem between font size and icon / dialog box.


Office software such as Word 2013 is also optimized for high resolution, the size of icons and fonts is also good.


Paint.NET 4.0 Alpha is also good, has become a sense of size suitable also for color scales other than fonts and icons.


GitHub for Windows also has an excellent appearance.


In addition to these, there seems to be many applications where the font size collapses on the display, so it seems like choosing a PC or monitor with the resolution of the display.