Comment Re:if only.... (Score 1) 142
No, that's not quite what I was getting at.
Say a screen is, for sake of easy math, 10 inches x 10 inches, 200ppi. This means the resolution is 2000x2000. We could fit one "sheet of paper" on this, at 200ppi.
Now imagine a screen twice the physical size (20x20), with 100ppi. The resolution is still 2000x2000. You can fit 4 sheets on this screen, though, because of it's *physical* size, not the size of the resolution.
With technology like ClearType, there is no reason that a page can't be displayed at just as clearly to the human eye at 100ppi as at 200ppi... and with a physically bigger monitor, you can have more "actual size" sheets per page. Plus, this bigger monitor is probably cheaper... it's the same screen, only the pixels are not so sub-microscopic, and probably easier to produce.
Say a screen is, for sake of easy math, 10 inches x 10 inches, 200ppi. This means the resolution is 2000x2000. We could fit one "sheet of paper" on this, at 200ppi.
Now imagine a screen twice the physical size (20x20), with 100ppi. The resolution is still 2000x2000. You can fit 4 sheets on this screen, though, because of it's *physical* size, not the size of the resolution.
With technology like ClearType, there is no reason that a page can't be displayed at just as clearly to the human eye at 100ppi as at 200ppi... and with a physically bigger monitor, you can have more "actual size" sheets per page. Plus, this bigger monitor is probably cheaper... it's the same screen, only the pixels are not so sub-microscopic, and probably easier to produce.
