I made the step back from a HP Veer to an older Samsung Smartphone. The difference in DPI is enormous, and only after using a different font and a nice theme to hide the effects of low-DPI as far as possible I was able to stand the Android.
Which means for me that I'm sold on 4k Displays (and higher), if the effect is even only near to the one I experienced, if you get used to it, you won't want to get back. I image it to be equal to the effect of old CRTs with the curved display, which was unbearable after getting used to a (good) TFT or even one of the modern CRT without the curve.
The resolution change we experienced earlier, or at least I did, was always with a bigger screen. A 17" with 1024x768, a 22" with 1280x1024 and now ~24" with 1920x1080. So most(?) of us never experienced a real DPI increase on the desktop, only on smartphones or tablets.
I really hope it will be the next step after the SSD. Higher DPI-displays are genuinely better.
Precisely. Those who are ensconced and comfortable with the inertia of "good enough," may feel that way simply because they don't know how much they would enjoy a high-definition full-view desktop display because nothing like that exists.
I've said elsewhere that without the iPad 3, we'd still have 1024x768 on tablets and there would be those of us shouting for higher resolution tablets, only to be frustrated by counter-arguments of "1024x768 is fine!"
If you disagree with me--if you believe that a high-density large-profile desktop display is just plain silly--I hope that one day if and when we do actually see such a device become available, and you sit down in front of one and mutter, "wow!" that you will remember this conversation. :)
Which means for me that I'm sold on 4k Displays (and higher), if the effect is even only near to the one I experienced, if you get used to it, you won't want to get back. I image it to be equal to the effect of old CRTs with the curved display, which was unbearable after getting used to a (good) TFT or even one of the modern CRT without the curve.
The resolution change we experienced earlier, or at least I did, was always with a bigger screen. A 17" with 1024x768, a 22" with 1280x1024 and now ~24" with 1920x1080. So most(?) of us never experienced a real DPI increase on the desktop, only on smartphones or tablets.
I really hope it will be the next step after the SSD. Higher DPI-displays are genuinely better.