Kevin Drum and I are on the same (high-resolution) page about how much pixel density matters if you don’t want your eyes to bleed out of your face.

I’m a bug on pixel density. As far as I’m concerned, the first real tablet in the world was the iPad 3, with its Retina display. I won’t use anything with much less resolution than that.

Right on. I’ve waited my whole fucking life for screens like that, and am still waiting for 4K monitors to be cheap enough for me to want to buy one on the desktop. I figure I’ll have one in about a year and a half since another large project stands in the middle.

I’ve noticed that I read the same material on my iPad about 50% faster than I do on other screens because the fonts due to the pixel density are so vastly, incredibly superior.

I am always amazed when people look at eye-shatteringly bad fonts on low-res screens and cannot tell the difference between that and the gorgeous iPad screen. There’s just no way I can see that much better than other people (due to the limitations of physics), so I can’t explain it at all.