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by chrisseaton 1626 days ago
> In this article for Sierra you seem to be only able to pick integer factors

Maybe? But that's ancient history.

I don't know what the ratios are - the UI doesn't expose them.
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lostmsu 1626 days ago
What does it expose? In Sierra as you can see from the screenshot it simply shows scaled resolutions. So you can just divide native resolution by the scaled to get the factor.
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chrisseaton 1626 days ago
It looks like it treats them as 0.5 / 0.67 / 0.78 / 0.87 / 1.0 scaling (1080 / 1440 / 1692 / 1890 / 2160 for physical resolution of 2160).

But this is all a bit arbitrary - I think the macOS API deals with an abstract 'points' unit.

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lostmsu 1625 days ago
Great to know. Might make me reconsider that M1 Mac Mini option.
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