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Why is it so hard to read from the MBP Screen?

Why is it so hard to read from the MBP Screen?

It seems like the words are too small for me. I have to move my head close to the screen. Is it because its only a 15.4 inch screen with a 1440 x 900 resolution?
 
It is because you have poor eyesight - there's some 15" laptops out there with 1680x1050 resolution, which'll make the text even smaller.
 
^ Up the strength.
Honestly, I would say the MB screen sucks but you're posting in the MBP section so I'll say that your issues are directly correlated to the quality of your eyesight.

Below is a snip from google with a few Optometrists in New York. Good luck.
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How long have you had it? It took me a few weeks to get used to mine, now every other screen makes words look huge to me. Give yourself some time to adjust.:)
 
hi everyone!

I'm constantly have eyestrain when working on my new unibody MBP17" Antiglare (already 3rd unit (2nd replacement) - i can feel how it's flickering.

Thought my 3rd unit has no screen flickering issues on low screen's brightness settings as it was with first two units but I can see pretty much clear now how my Display flickers in certain conditions - as an example check this image:

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This flickering became even more obvious when this kind of image located in the bottom part of the screen on my laptop.
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I can handle the iphone glossy, the 13" glossy, almost the 15" glossy, but not the 24" cinema screen glare.

It's the size of the screen IMO. The larger the screen, the more glare sources you're picking up and the harder it is to angle your screen to reduce glare.

You'll have to sell your glossy 17" and get a matte 17".

Apple has me in a headlock, forcing me to buy a glossy screen iMac, Mac Pro and cinema screen. Bastards! I'm not going to pay for a 17" and lug the extra weight just so I can have a Mac that doesn't hurt my eyes. That's rediculous.
 
Weird... I too have a glossy/glassy/whatever screen, and my eyes never get sore (not any more than staring at any other monitor/television/etc)...and I bet that I stare at my screen just as much, if not more, than anyone else here.
 
Yeah, the dpi is higher compared with your old 15". More pixels per inch. That's why in offices they set monitors to a lower resolution than the panel is capable of. Looks bloody crap but if they set it at the native resolution it would give the workers eye strain.
 
CptBucky said:
Yeah, the dpi is higher compared with your old 15". More pixels per inch. That's why in offices they set monitors to a lower resolution than the panel is capable of. Looks bloody crap but if they set it at the native resolution it would give the workers eye strain.
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Great point any links to that btw?
 
Mcmac17 said:
I had the same problem and I used Tinker Tool to make some of the fonts/pages bigger. For example, it remembers your magnification settings for each site in Firefox so it saves having continually use ctrl + each time you re-open FF. It doesn't work on all of the system fonts - but does change some of them.
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TinkerTool can't change everything, unfortunately. Probably digging the defaults database might give more hints at what else can be tuned.

Ironically, past week I've used apple.com/feedback/ to send the feedback to Apple: Safari should similarly to FF3 remember zoom level per site and Mac OS X itself should provide option to make UI fonts larger as to make it usable on screens with higher DPI.

I'm on the same boat with my UMBP17. For photo-editing - it's great. But in some other areas - fonts are just darn small for any prolonged work.
 
aleni said:
does anybody having eyestrain in 5 minutes use of this new 17" mbp unibody?

i tried reducing birghtness still it doesn't help much. my eyes were just fine with the 15" unibody i already sold..

my new 17" is glossy, not the anti-glare version, so should i buy an anti glare film screen to reduce my eyestrain? will the screen suck if i put the film screen on?

thanks in advance..
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The larger the glossy screen the more glare you're going to pick up. I can handle my iphone, Macbook 13", can cope with a 15" MBP, but absolutely could not tolerate the new 24" cinema.
 
It's all very well people saying you need to get use to it, but eye strain is not good, full stop.

I don't know why they don't offer two versions of the 17" screen, one at the 1920x1200 and another at 1680x1050 or even 1440x900, with matte options for each.

I wouldn't mind a 17" screen but at 1440x900 or 1680x1050 (native). Less real estate than 1920x1200, but very comfortable usage for long periods. Even a 1680x1050 would make a massive difference compared to 1920x1200 in the comfort stakes.

Love,
Sn0wy
 
1920x1200 is too much on an iMac in my humble opinion. I have my familys iMac set to 1344x840. 1920x1200 makes all the words illegible... I would assume you could set your display to a lower setting. You ought to be able to change your setting to a lowerresolution under Displays in control pannel, but I don't have any :apple: laptops.
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PaperMacWriter said:
1920x1200 is too much on an iMac in my humble opinion. I have my familys iMac set to 1344x840. 1920x1200 makes all the words illegible... I would assume you could set your display to a lower setting. You ought to be able to change your setting to a lowerresolution under Displays in control pannel, but I don't have any :apple: laptops.
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You can, and I 've done it too, but it's supposed to distort the image.
 
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