Discrete?

That's "smooth scrolling", one of the first things I turn off in a new Windows installation: Internet control panel (of course! where else would it be?) → Advanced → Browsing → Use Smooth Scrolling.

So, Smooth Scrolling, isn't, not really. How windows is that?

In theory, Microsoft added some measure of resolution independence in Vista. I seem to recall that Apple is similarly working on resolution independence (which, given the NeXT-roots of the window system, shouldn't be as hard as it seems to be). Absent proper software support, though...

I considered that, and it does sound like it could be a good screen. But I do use my laptop on my lap most of the time and it does get carried around between rooms at home all the time. I just think 17" is just a little bit big without a desk.


A lot of applications ignore the DPI setting, including Google Chrome, my Accounting and Payroll programs. So I had bigger than normal Windows elements with normal small sized applications it was just not useful.

Oh, about cleartype, there is this cleartype tuner: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/step1.aspx (needs IE)

And i find that cleartype is made for black on white text, it makes light text on a dark background worse.

Edit: For me the "BGR - very rare" in step 2 looks like you describe, if that one looks better on your screen then we've found the cause.