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a trick to make your Air's screen resolution to 1920x1080

aleni

aleni

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i use Mountain Lion GM, and it supports airplay to apple tv.

what a neat trick i found when airplaying my 11" air to my full HD tv via Apple TV was the screen on my air looks like it has 1920x1080 resolution. text a little bit fuzzy, but not that bad.. the best thing is when you are working with photoshop or adobe illustrator, your work art still looks sharp! so it's like having a 1920x1080 in your air.

it's really convenience to work with, but don't try to read websites with it because it will make u dizzy.

sorry for my bad english..

here's the pic, notice how much workspace i got in my air.

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note: why did my pic became rotated? i put it in dropbox.
 
This is a poor idea. All you're doing is making the ui smaller and making it split pixels unevenly because the new resolution isn't a multiple of the LCD screen's native resolution. It may look "sharper", but i assure you it's not.
 
I don't like the idea either... 1440x900 is just fine. Any lower would be too low and any higher would just be a huge strain on the eyes ( on my eyes at least for sure ).
 
oneMadRssn said:
Dude... with how far away it looks like you're sitting... ask Santa for a bigger TV ;)
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it's in my bedroom, and i don't watch TV from the bed, i usually watch from the floor lol.

btw i don't recommend the cramped resolution for doing anything else other than working with photoshop and illustrator.

everything looks a bit fuzzy because of compressed resolution, but work arts in photoshop and illustrator still look sharp!
 
aleni said:
it's in my bedroom, and i don't watch TV from the bed, i usually watch from the floor lol.

btw i don't recommend the cramped resolution for doing anything else other than working with photoshop and illustrator.

everything looks a bit fuzzy because of compressed resolution, but work arts in photoshop and illustrator still look sharp!
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I also like this feature although I wish there was a way to accomplish it without my Apple TV being present. Just force the higher scaled resolution would be nice when I run of of landscape while running several virtual machines on my Air.
 
So basically it renders at 1920x1080 then downscales to 1366x768.

As 1366x768 isn't a multiple of 1920x1080, you will lose details in the process while also losing performance.

What's the point? Aren't UI elements small enough on the 11" MBA already?
 
pgiguere1 said:
So basically it renders at 1920x1080 then downscales to 1366x768.

As 1366x768 isn't a multiple of 1920x1080, you will lose details in the process while also losing performance.

What's the point? Aren't UI elements small enough on the 11" MBA already?
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The point is using this technique when u work on photoshop or illustrator only, because the images doesn't seem compressed, so bigger real estate is really useful. This technique is worthless for anyting except PS and AIbecause everything seems so small and fuzy.
 
What are you guys complaining about? This guy found a way to add more pixels to the existing MBA. It's excellent.
 
Puevlo said:
What are you guys complaining about? This guy found a way to add more pixels to the existing MBA. It's excellent.
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I can't tell if you're poking fun at op or not because obviously this doesn't add pixels and just screws up the screen by scaling.
 
aleni said:
it's in my bedroom, and i don't watch TV from the bed, i usually watch from the floor lol.
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You don't watch TV from bed, but you watch on the floor? Odd.

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Puevlo said:
What are you guys complaining about? This guy found a way to add more pixels to the existing MBA. It's excellent.
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He's the one who said when he sits near the refrigerator it increases the battery life of his MBA too. :cool:
 
shenan1982 said:
You don't watch TV from bed, but you watch on the floor? Odd.

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He's the one who said when he sits near the refrigerator it increases the battery life of his MBA too. :cool:
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I dont watch the tv from bed coz it's too far away. Fyi, i have a sofa near the tv on my bedroom, so i watch it from there or from on the floor sometimes. But i rarely watch the th on my bedroom, i often do it on the living room instead.

U guys don't understand the point of scaling 1920x1080 to 1336x768. Everything is a bit fuzzy yes, but artworks in photoshop and illustrator still look sharp and it's more enjoyable to work with than the 11" 1336x768.
 
aleni said:
I dont watch the tv from bed coz it's too far away. Fyi, i have a sofa near the tv on my bedroom, so i watch it from there or from on the floor sometimes. But i rarely watch the th on my bedroom, i often do it on the living room instead.

U guys don't understand the point of scaling 1920x1080 to 1336x768. Everything is a bit fuzzy yes, but artworks in photoshop and illustrator still look sharp and it's more enjoyable to work with than the 11" 1336x768.
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"Artworks" are not more sharp because you're not adding pixels.


It should be pretty apparent that the only person to find this useful also can't figure out how to rotate a photo, which says a lot.
 
asting said:
"Artworks" are not more sharp because you're not adding pixels.


It should be pretty apparent that the only person to find this useful also can't figure out how to rotate a photo, which says a lot.
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geez. bro. i didn't say more sharp, but the sharpness is quite the same like when in 1336x768 11" air but with much more real estate to work with with artworks. when i get home, i'll take a pic the artwork both from 1336x768 and 1920x1280 compressed to let u see the difference.

and about rotating photos. i took the pic with my 4S, then it uploads to my photostream in iphoto, and then i scaled it a bit smaller. the pic was appeared just fine, not rotated, then i uploaded it to dropbox, and pasted the image link here, and it's became rotated. must be dropbox's bug. suddenly, when i visited this thread again, the photo came out fine, not rotated like before.

jesus, why would u think i can't rotate a damn photo. are u that smart? :eek:
 
I actually liked it that way. But probably not 1920. It increases some workspaces. For example, if i wanted to have more window/workspaces on the desktop but don't actually care about its clarity. Anyone figured out how to do this w/o Airplay?
 
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