MacBook Air 2015 screen looks extremely "large" when connected to external 24 inch Cinema Display

[Mr. 123]

Hello, I recently connected my MacBook Air to my Apple Cinema Display and despite having the highest resolution settings in "display settings" in system preferences, all the text, menus etc is just way too large and looks kind of zoomed in, though the screen is not technically zoomed and is showing everything.

I am used to using a 5K 27 inch iMac where everything (at native resolution) is much smaller so it is very weird to use the macbook with the Cinema Display with the icons being so large.

Is there a way to fix this? I can't find any settings that fixes it.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

 

[sgtaylor5]

You may already know about this: There are display settings for each monitor attached. It's the lozenge shaped bar above the Display settings that switches monitors.

EDIT: You check the settings for each connected monitor on the monitor you want to change the settings for.

 

[Mr. 123]

You may already know about this: There are display settings for each monitor attached. It's the lozenge shaped bar above the Display settings that switches monitors.

EDIT: You check the settings for each connected monitor on the monitor you want to change the settings for.

Yes I checked this but it seems that there is no higher resolution to pick in the display settings for the Cinema Display, so that means that the screen is extremely zoomed in. I wonder if there is no fix and the resolution of the screen just isn't good enough, but it shouldn't be so hard to just have it a bit less large...

 

[sgtaylor5]

I don't have the money nor the need for a Cinema Display to check on any other mode of resolution for you (pun inevitable, but unintended).