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mark-r on Nov 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Dell UltraSharp Monitors

That's the genius of Apple's Retina - they jumped straight from 1x to 2x with nothing in between. Even multiples are much easier to work with and give a better user experience.

jfb on Nov 1, 2013 [–]

Even the way they (we?) handle non integer scale factors is clever -- pixel doubling and then downscaling, rather than upscaling directly.

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