It's a very niche use case of people like us who worry about PPIs. Gamers care about refresh rate and fake "1ms" rather than resolution.I've seen the same results with every display I've hooked up to the Mac since the first 5k Retina iMac was introduced. There just is no other substitute (other than Apple's out-of-reach-for-most-people XDR display) on the Mac.
I got spoiled with the first 5k iMac years ago, so when I replaced it with a 16" MBP, I got the LG Ultrafine 5k display to go with it. Now that I want to add another display, I'm stuck because I would really like a 4K display with a larger screen, but there simply are no options.
Putting any display next to the LG Ultrafine 5K is like looking through a dirty window. The brightness, color and crispness of the text all absolutely suck in comparison. I had a $2,000+ 4k display that I immediately returned because it was just so bad that I couldn't stand even using it as a secondary screen for reading email, Twitter, calendar, etc. I couldn't use it for keeping color panels on while using Photoshop, InDesign, etc. because the colors were just so inaccurate.
I don't understand why a 3rd-party manufacturer hasn't filled this gap in display quality (other than LG with one single display). Even more dumbfounding is why Apple refuses to offer a large sized consumer level retina display. I get that the need for this type of display is not as large as that of low-priced/low-quality displays, but it's certainly big enough that they could not only own this specific market, but grow it.
They removed sub-pixel antialiasing in Mojave to make text rendering slightly easier/faster/more efficient.Anyone know why this is?
Response time isn't "fake;" it matters. If you have a slow screen, it ruins the smoothness of 120+ Hz. This is partly why I often find my 60Hz iPhone 11 Pro Max to feel smoother than my 120Hz 14" MacBook Pro.Gamers care about refresh rate and fake "1ms" rather than resolution.
that's my question too. Did you find an answer?Does changing the values from 0,1,2 etc via the terminal window yield any changes when using the MBP display? Or is it just in my mind?
Yes, however I was talking about the fake 1ms panels that are sold that people do believe are 1ms despite the Fast Response Time mode not being increased (and overall losing quality)They removed sub-pixel antialiasing in Mojave to make text rendering slightly easier/faster/more efficient.
Response time isn't "fake;" it matters. If you have a slow screen, it ruins the smoothness of 120+ Hz. This is partly why I often find my 60Hz iPhone 11 Pro Max to feel smoother than my 120Hz 14" MacBook Pro.
that's my question too. Did you find an answer?
I wish there was a way to enable font smoothing only on external displays. I didn't want to mess with the internal display so I set the fontsmoothing back to 0, but external display is somehow less crisp now, especially when reading PDFs or writing text.It does. I can clearly see the difference in the fonts when comparing two identical MacBook 14 next to each other. When one has the values changed. It’s very noticeable primarily in the Apple menu settings etc. the lighter sub fonts look much lighter when value is zero.
In Monterey any positive number gets the same results. It is evidently just a boolean true or false now. Both settings use greyscale antialiasing. They are equally blurry. True just makes text slightly bolder.Does changing the values from 0,1,2 etc via the terminal window yield any changes when using the MBP display? Or is it just in my mind?
In Monterey any positive number gets the same results. It is evidently just a boolean true or false now. Both settings use greyscale antialiasing. They are equally blurry. True just makes text slightly bolder.