[For the Forum’s Admin, thanks.
It may seem that I am going OT at some point. SINCE, thanks to what I have found out (and what is confirmed on the net, about BetterDisplay), many of us who have increased the longevity of our Macs, thanks to OCLP, can further improve their experience and joy, as happened to me.
And MAYBE some good OCLP developer could even introduce an option to have OCLP be able to enable in the NVRAM the HiDPI capabilities of the display... That would be great!]
Thank you,
@MacinMan , for taking on this minor annoyance with the two screenshots.
In fact, in my case, it is precisely that Histogram that does not appear with Sequoia, and furthermore, moving the two sliders at either end or pressing the "Auto Levels" button makes the image disappear.
But in my case I have a Kepler series nVidia card while you do not.
Anyway, yesterday, after restoring my iMac from scratch and reinstalling Sonoma, I returned to being fully in control of my big iMac and fully happy!
Apart from the fact that with Sonoma it works EVERYTHING perfectly well, like a new Mac, I feel no lack compared to Sequoia which I abandoned.
But why on earth did I have to keep an Operating System that among its few innovations introduced two dynamic backgrounds that were as complex as they were ugly?...
And since when did we Mac Users, who used to pride ourselves on the essentiality and clean of the GUI (always beautiful anyway...) get dazzled and enticed by a background of trees that... move every time the Mac falls asleep and wakes up? ...
Windows, on the contrary, whose naive users adored these childish games, with version 10 and 11 introduced a simple background that does not contribute to fatigue.
Sad that the new Apple’s minds, for such useless (and harmful to eye and mental fatigue) things, have taken time away from other functions development. It was enough to repurpose the usual HEIC dynamic backgrounds and JPG and PNG ones…
That said, if you have read my farewell post on Sequoia, you will also have learned of my discovery about my display that actually, unlocked thanks to a simple utility created and sold on GitHub, behaves like a Studio Display.
And to think that in Catalina (which I have in the second internal SSD belonging to the former Fusion Drive) the operating system sets the high-definition icons by itself and the text does not appear blurry when zooming to full screen.
So all of us who do not have Retina screens and who with OCLP were able to use the new macOS, from 11 onwards, did not notice the deterioration of graphic details and that Apple, underneath, managed to make obsolete screens perfect, even if for not highly productive and professional uses!....
A friend of mine bought the top-of-the-line Mac Mini Pro M4 and was using it with a decent 2560x1440 external screen. Definition that corresponds to iMacs like mine and the REAL definition with which Apple handles 5K displays and the Studio Display.
Well: even in his case, so without OCLP and using the best Mac Mini Pro, the text and system icons were grainy. All this induced him to buy a new display, since he too had forgotten, as I had, the better behavior of the same Monitor, up to Mojave and even in Catalina, even though Catalina no longer has the smart HiDPI fonts and definitions that Apple removed from Mojave onward.
I invited my friend, therefore, to try BetterDisplay before he bled to buy a good 4K monitor, an expensive 5K or the Studio Display.
The result for normal video and graphic uses, going by a comparison with the Studio Display, is identical to what you get with the Studio Display!
Of course, I am not foolish to compare the overall quality of the Studio Display and the better color rendering. The fact of the matter is that at a normal glance (but also by zooming in to the full screen, for example of the time on the menu bar) you can see very well that there is no substantial difference and - ESPECIALLY - that you don't damage our eyesight any more!
Since I stopped using Catalina, in fact, I had not noticed this until now, and in the last few years I have been experiencing visual deterioration.
Thank you, Apple! And I was not consoled to find out that it was not dependent on having used OCLP since the same degradation in GUI clarity was experienced by this friend with the new Mac Mini M4 Pro top of the line.
Lastly: even if your monitor is officially 5K, have you tried to turn on zoom in System Settings -> Accessibility and see if by any chance (mysteriously) macOS sets you Low Definition Icons and Text?...
(But apparently so is my 2013 iMac display, as deduced from the screenshots I posted earlier since BetterDisplay does nothing but unlock NVRAM, does NOT install drivers, and does NOT start any support apps...
After all, it's the same LG model and only the final additional acronyms change. Maybe because it just changes the internal firmware?... Mystery)
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