Windows and high resolution screens on small laptops

VinnieThePooh

VinnieThePooh

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I haven't followed the laptop scene for a while and today I decided to take a look at what's the on the market.

What I discovered was that practically all of the laptops being sold have screen resolutions at 1600 and up, most having 1920 screens.

The problem I found was that the "Desktop" looked absolutely tiny! When I changed the scaling, it made it look messed up. Anything other than 100% scaling with Windows looks disproportionate. The text on Metro side too looked small.

So I was wondering does anybody have a problem with this situation? What can Microsoft do about this? How come Apple can release a retina screen Macbook and the windows, menus and text are the same size, except sharper, yet Windows looks either messed up or tiny at small resolutions.
 
Vitruviux said:
I haven't followed the laptop scene for a while and today I decided to take a look at what's the on the market.

What I discovered was that practically all of the laptops being sold have screen resolutions at 1600 and up, most having 1920 screens.

The problem I found was that the "Desktop" looked absolutely tiny! When I changed the scaling, it made it look messed up. Anything other than 100% scaling with Windows looks disproportionate. The text on Metro side too looked small.

So I was wondering does anybody have a problem with this situation? What can Microsoft do about this? How come Apple can release a retina screen Macbook and the windows, menus and text are the same size, except sharper, yet Windows looks either messed up or tiny at small resolutions.
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I had this problem with my xps 12. That was 1920x1080 on a 12" screen. It was far too small to be any good imho.

Now I may be mistaken, but I think windows 8.1 might have a fix where the resolution can be high, but the actually display (icons, windows etc etc) are a decent size like the mac books. May have dreamt it though.
 
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