advertising of laptop resolution vs scaling

[paradigm]

This isn't about eyesight, or preference, or whether scaling is good or bad, or about getting what you paid for.

It ABSOLUTELY is about eyesight. You can’t have a single recommended scaling setting for any display meeting “x” ppi. Different people are comfortable with differing sizes of on-screen items and text. Different applications or use cases might dictate a different setting. A manufacturer “recommending” a specific setting it likely to cause more problems and confusion than just stating the hardware specs and letting the user decide user-based settings.

Again, 150% 1200p at 13” (with a suitable distance from eye to display) would be ridiculously large for my use cases. I’d likely be running 100%.

 

[throwaway4372]

The recommended setting is recommended in windows, it's already recommended, I'm just suggesting it would be helpful to write it on the spec sheet.

I'm saying this thread isn't about eyesight. Obviously people can adjust scaling as they prefer, and they will factor their eyesight into that. This process happens after the purchase, I'm talking about what info should be provided at the time of purchase.

I noticed on apple's spec sheet they don't list "resolution" they list "native resolution at x ppi", a nod to this issue without being helpful enough to explain the scaling options recommended or available.

 

[Zefan]

Apple use PPI because they decided to market screens that way such as retina, and to be fair to them, it is appropriate in many cases. Still though, ppi is just (vertical res * horizontal res) / (vertical screen size size * horizontal screen size)... Nothing people shouldn't be able to work out when buying a "Full HD" screen (until recently the standard for 50" TVs) that's 13 inches across. This feels like a solution in search of a problem.

 

[throwaway4372]

Oh well, nobody at all agreeing even slightly, I give up.