[oblio]

You shouldn't be as close to the laptop screen as to the big monitor. And at larger distances the pixel densities can be lower.

[ezluckyfree]

This is the argument that HiDPI displays are pointless if you're not very close to the monitor, and if you've used a retina display, you know that there is absolutely a difference.

[oblio]

You probably hold your phone about 30-40cm from your face. You probably look at your laptop screen at 50-60. You should be at least 75cm it not 90 or 100cm away from a big monitor.

I'm not convinced the difference is obvious.

[LukeShu]

Did you say that backwards? On my lap, the screen of my laptop is 17"-20" from my face. At a desk, the monitor is usually about 28" from my face.

[oblio]

Yeah, I might have :-)

You should be farther from your monitor than you are from your laptop.