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on July 26, 2012
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Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for r...
You missed the part where almost every Windows app breaks at high DPI.
kbolino
on July 26, 2012
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Indeed. Windows apps are resolution-independent in theory, but not in practice. Even the OS itself has a bunch of tie-ins to ancient dialog boxes that have only been incrementally improved and break when you change the DPI.
josephcooney
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So when you said "Windows isn't quite ready for that kind of scaling" you meant "some windows apps" or "most windows apps"?
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