Discussion in 'iMac' started by blwegrzyn, Jul 14, 2011.
I just upgraded my imac to intel i5 version 2.5Mhz.
Before i had a version from 6 months ago with i3 processor 3.0Mhz.
First thing that i noticed that fonts dont look clear.
They are kind of gray,sort of like there would be some problem with convergence.
I never felt this with older mac i3 which had ati card and this one has AMD card.
"Turn off the font smooting for sizes smaller then ..."
will use smoothing settings set with above commands or tinkertool.
Unfortunately, my eyes have different sensivity and the subpixel rendering (called Quartz on MAC) does not work for me. Interesting part is that all was good until I changed the Mac to the one with AMD card.
I understand that Mac is trying to make fonts look like on print, but they dont look like that. They look blurry and my eyes get tired quickly.
I guess all you here, have different eyes and see it super sharp.
I dont. For me I see it like there would be a convergence problem with the display. Those who ever calibrated the tv know what effect i am talking about. Next step is go to the eye doctor and check my eyes.
anyone knows about similar information but for mac?
Attached examples of different methods for mac.
I use my mac for processing the raw photograms, but I hate the font rendering. I was able to move to Tahoma font and disable smoothing, but it does not work everywhere (Lucida grande) and it also does not look as good as microsoft true type fonts with bi-level font rendering.
I cannot believe that everyone here likes the mac fonts rendering.
Looks like you all (no offense) like that blurry look.
My eyes cannot get use to it.
It is so NO SHARP!!!
Weird because my mine is as sharp as a Swiss army knife.
Hope you get this resolved by some update or preference snooping!