Anybody using a High DPI laptop and and Autocad that wants to share some solutions?
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My Laptop Configuration
Puget M565i 15-inch Notebook
Laptop Screen 15.6" Matte Screen (1920x1080)
CPU Intel Core i7 Mobile 4940MX 3.1GHz 8MB 57W
Ram 32GB DDR3-1600 SODIMM (4x8GB)
Video Card NVIDIA MXM Geforce GTX 880M 8GB (for Puget M765i and M565i only)
Networking Intel WiFi/Bluetooth 7260.HMW 867 Mbps 802.11ac Mini-PCIe Card
Hard Drive Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5inch SSD
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SATA 6Gb/s mSATA SSD
Secondary drive.
CD / DVD LG Slim SATA 8X DVD-RW Drive
Case / Cooling
Additional Cooling Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound Upgrade
Software
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit OEM SP1
Peripherals
Mouse spacer Logitech Performance MX Cordless Mouse
For a long time I felt that the higher the resolution the better (started with CGA/1980). However I believe the time has come to watch for too high resolution (especially on fonts/icons). I say this because I got a Surface Pro (Win8) and I can't find a way of setting the base font size (advanced settings missing in Win8). As such when you use MS scaling concept (150%, 200% etc) the icons are scaled and look blurry, the fonts are almost impossible to control and are sometimes blurry too.
If anyone knows how to set the base font size let me know. In other words if you set a high-res display at 100% and show an alert message it isn't super tiny. I've tried some registry changes and they never seem to work. I believe there is a low level DLL that has the base font embedded.
So now it's a $1500 paperweight that I never use and regret purchasing. Again I blame MS because I also have an iPad Mini with a retina display and happily use it daily.
In my (30+ year experience) opinion, MS screwed the pooch trying to put win8 on any desktop or laptop machine.
