Tuning the Display

The System Preferences interface is broken up into five rows, including Personal, Hardware, Internet & Wireless, System, and Other. Clicking the Displays icon, located in the Hardware row, opens a new menu. From this menu, you can select screen resolutions. In general, for the best visual results, pick the native resolution of the screen. This is especially important when using an LCD, or liquid-crystal display. Although displays can generally run in multiple resolutions, they are optimized for one particular resolution. As Wikipedia describes it, “While CRT monitors can usually display images at various resolutions, an LCD monitor has to rely on interpolation (scaling of the image), which causes a loss of image quality. An ...

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