MacBook Air and eye strain
I absolutely do. All of the new products with screens that apple makes currently are unusable for me. I wish I could get apple to confirm, but I am close to 100% certain my issue is temporal dithering. This is the only common factor I have found across displays I have issues with. PWM doesn't bother me apparently according to what I use currently.
Clokwork Consider emailing accessibility AT apple.com. If enough people do it, they might take this seriously.
Apple spends a lot of time to develop VoiceOver screenreaders for blind people. That's a minority of the population, like us. We need to make Apple care by letting them know this issue exists.
I've never tried the iphone 11, 12 and 13 so i can't reply.
I am using also the pixel 4A and it's fine for me.
Recenter Apple product that i've tried with bad results are:
- Ipad Pro 10,5" (i am still using the ipad air 2)
- MBA 2018
- MBP 16" 2019
I've had the hypothesis that display resolution could matter too. What baffles me a little is that my TV is "2k". It accepts 4k signals. I did have to dumb down my projector from 4k to 1080p, but 1080p is its' native form. It basically shakes the pixels really fast to simulate 4K. My current monitor is 1080p and the one I am eyeing is 2k.
Higher resolutions mean the UI needs to be scaled up. Which could lead to fancy upscaling that causes us issues.
This calculator is a good tool. https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/ppi-calculator.php
Anything over 100ppi I struggle to read.
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Good on you!
I asked that question, because historically I have always benefited from lowering the display resolution. In some cases that has transformed an unusable system into a perfectly usable one and for as many hours per day as I wanted. A change from day to night. I never found an explanation for the "trick", though, especially while most folks were going for the opposite, higher and higher resolutions.
thorpee Higher resolutions mean the UI needs to be scaled up. Which could lead to fancy upscaling that causes us issues.
Interesting. Are you referring to the native resolution / density of the pixels or to image re-scaling? Sorry, I am not very knowledgeable.
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Hi guys,
I'm thinking about getting Macbook Air M1 since this hardware is great for my work. I'm very worried about eye strain since I already have a problem with it.
I have glasses with blue light filter but they don't help much.
Can you suggest good monitor to use with? I've seen Asus Eye Care monitors, are they any good? Is it just marketing?
I've read about curved monitors being good. Anyone with experience on this?
Any other recommendations on 27' monitor to pair with M1?
Thank you
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When we started getting higher resolutions of 2k or 4k they had to quickly find ways to make the buttons, menus and text bigger. That's when they probably started playing with dithering more at the OS level to smooth out any pixel based items that did not scale well. Apple probably established it all with the retina display. Thanks Apple.
I feel like we are better to stick with lower resolutions so we can leave scaling at 100%. Like a 24inch 1080p or 27inch 1080p monitor.
I disagree with the software assessment. My iPad, usable for almost 4 years became unusable around the time iPad OS release version 15. My eyes have the same symptoms that the newer iDevices cause. At first I thought it was hardware only, but now I think it can be both.
thorpee Apple probably established it all with the retina display. Thanks Apple.
The first Retina display that came out, though, looked so easy on my eyes. I remember looking at it in Apple stores back in 2013 and wishing I could switch my business Windows laptop to Apple. Now, instead I can tolerate only the new MacBook Air.