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In article <5349@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> jg@ukc.ac.uk (J.Grant) writes:
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|	Some large Mac screen displays run at 95 dpi compared to the more 
| normal Mac 72 dpi.  Since this will make the text appear 7/9 of its normal
| size, I am concerned about the legibility (size distortion is probably of 
| little concern here).
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|	Does anyone have any experience of the altered pixel size on the Mac ?

The computer store I used to work at had, at one time, a Macintosh II
connected to three monitors: a standard Apple 13" color w/ 4-bits color, a
SuperMac 19" Trinitron with 8 bit color, and a SuperMac 16" Trinitron with 8
bit color.

Both the Apple and the SuperMac 19" were at approximately 72 dpi, while the
SuperMac 16" was somewhere in the 90 dpi range.  From my experiences on that
machine, you do not want to even consider using any Mac screen with
resolutions near 90 dpi!  The higher resolution creates considerable eye
strain, and fonts which normally look good (like the Geneva used in the
Finder) looks really squished.  Overall, graphics also suffer.  Remember that
little things which look nice (like the horizontal lines on an active
window's title bar) become smaller and denser.

Christopher Chow
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