[OT] MacBook Pro 17'' HD - Is the text too small for coding?

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Hi!

   I'm sorry, this is a little off-topic even for the Talk list. But  
anyway, here goes:

   I'm hesitating between buying a "regular" 17 MBP or the one with  
the HD display.

   I'm very tempted for the HD, because I seem to never have enough  
space for all the windows I need. But of course, I'm concerned about  
the fact that the text may get too small to be readable (and almost  
all we do is text, right?).

   Doing the math, I conclude that a character would be 14% smaller  
(in length, not area) on the HD display. 14% doesn't seem to be a lot,  
but I don't know. I tried one in the Apple Store UK last week,  
downloaded an Eclipse screenshot, and it seemed perfectly readable,  
but of course one thing is to use it for 5 minutes, and a completely  
different one is using the machine several hours a day.

   Unfortunately I can't do more tests (I'm back to Portugal, and no  
physical Apple Store here yet) so I'm looking for the experience of  
anyone who codes and has one of this little monsters.

   (there's always the obvious option of increasing the font size, but  
sometimes that may not be possible)

   Yours

Miguel Arroz

Miguel Arroz
http://www.terminalapp.net
http://www.ipragma.com




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