Comment by dzogchen
13 hours ago
They may have fractional scaling but font rendering absolutely sucks if you don’t have 200dpi or more.
I tried using macOS on a 4K 27 inch monitor and it was pretty unbearable. Worse than a 1080p monitor on Windows or Linux.
They stopped shipping computers that have less than that. They clearly think that’s the minimum that’s viable.
Personally, I’m fine with that. It’s 2026 and I don’t understand why people are using 1080p monitors for work.
Some people don't have a choice. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698278
"The company I work at gives all new developers a pair of 1080p displays that could have come right out of 2010."
I have the same problem. The monitors at the office where I currently work are all low-DPI.
Work is quite irrational when it comes to spending decisions. It's not just penny pinching. They waste a lot of time and money at the same time as they block and worry about much smaller expenses. Asking them to provide one or two good, modern monitors at non-trivial cost would likely be described something as a "luxury" or "treat", which is how they described my personal laptop when they found out how much it cost.
At least I'm able to use my own laptop at the current job. It's much more powerful than anything the company would provide.