i just read an article http://bizzvenue.com/3-reasons-get-excited-os-x-yosemite/ that mentioned that Yosemite has been designed around retina screens. Does this mean that on my 2013 macbook air, Yosemite will look worse than Mavericks? Or will it look the same?
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Is Yosemite optimised for retina?
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I have a 27" iMac and the system font, Helvitica, definitely looks worse than Mavericks. I'm hoping that will change by the time it's released to the public.
It won't, that's the font they went with. You can change it back to LG if you want.
There have been many reports of problems with Yosemite and text on a non-retina display. I haven't done any side-by-side comparison with Mavericks, but when using an external display with my rMBP, I didn't experience any issues. Sure, the retina display looks much nicer, but it has always been like this. Best thing would be to go to an Apple store and check it out on the display, before installing it on your machine.
Unquestionably optimized for Yosemite.
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I'm sure that Yosemite is not installed at any Apple Stores at this time. Not at least for 1 more week, it won't be.
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I'm sure that Yosemite is not installed at any Apple Stores at this time. Not at least for 1 more week, it won't be.
As far as I'm aware, Lucida Grande was a font specifically optimized for display on (low-DPI) computer displays, whereas that's decidedly not the case for Helvetica (Neue), especially at low font sizes. Thus one would expect to have it look at least somewhat worse (whether that's an issue, is a whole other question). I'm almost certain Apple would never have switched to HN had it not been for Retina displays.
Helvetica Neue looked pretty "meh" on my mid-2012 cMBP in DP1, but it's been refined quite a bit since then. Looks great now, in my opinion.