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Screen door effect

snowmoon

snowmoon

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Oct 6, 2005
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Anyone else having the hardest time going back to the laptop or earlier generation iPad, it takes me a good 30 minutes before I stop feeling like I'm looking through a screen door at the screen.

2012 iPad is spoiling me for any other display except the 27" iMac.

:eek:
 
snowmoon said:
Anyone else having the hardest time going back to the laptop or earlier generation iPad, it takes me a good 30 minutes before I stop feeling like I'm looking through a screen door at the screen.

2012 iPad is spoiling me for any other display except the 27" iMac.

:eek:
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you're sitting too close.
 
snowmoon said:
Anyone else having the hardest time going back to the laptop or earlier generation iPad, it takes me a good 30 minutes before I stop feeling like I'm looking through a screen door at the screen.

2012 iPad is spoiling me for any other display except the 27" iMac.

:eek:
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I feel the same way. I love how the new iPad looks almost like a printed page. The lack of screen door effect makes even non retina apps look a lot better imo
 
Lol I thought I was the only one feeling like this. I too feel that I have been spoiled by this display, but I'm happy to know that I like it more than I was hoping for and use it more than my laptop a bit now.:eek:
 
Yeah it gets annoying to go back to my MacBook Pro. Everything looks blurry as if someone smeared grease on the screen. How long before Retina laptops?
 
Maybe I just need to switch out this pair of contacts, but I'm not seeing this effect that you guys are. When I use my iPad, I'd guess it's about a foot and a half from my face. But when I use my MBP/22" monitor, I'd say I'm roughly two and a half feet from the screen. It might be because of my viewing distances, but I don't have problems switching back and forth. All three screens look great to me.
 
Man, I am noticing it at work especially because I use a company issued Lenovo thinkpad and cheap 1080p monitor.

That effect you describe is even more noticeable switching to a windows machine because of the atrocious clear type font smoothing that Windows 7 uses whereas the font smoothing in OS X seems to be more pleasing to the eye.
 
The ‘Screen Door Effect’ is a very specific issue with notebook LCD panels where it looks like there is a screen mesh grid overlay. This isn't the norm on all LCD panels.

This was an issue with LG panels back in the day, I didn’t know it was still around. None of my MacBooks show the screen door grid and are all very clear.

But yes, after looking at a retina iPhone and iPad, both my ‘Hi-Rez’ MacBooks don’t look so sharp anymore.
 
When I first got the job I have now, I was really impressed by my really nice dual widescreen monitors. No longer.
 
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