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by 2OEH8eoCRo0 160 days ago
I sometimes think that my 40" is too much because the extra space just ends up hosting distracting junk like Slack.

I also have a mild take that large screens make screen real estate cheap so less thought goes into user interface design. There's plenty of room just stick the widget anywhere!
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cosmic_cheese 160 days ago
It'd be pretty interesting to compare how much the amount of information one can cram onto their ~27" screen has changed between 2005 and 2025, with the comparison points between between a Mac running OS X 10.6 and a Mac running macOS 26, which I think is a particularly salient and apples-to-apples comparison since Apple was selling 30" 2560x1600 displays back then, which are close cousins to modern 27" 2560x1440 displays.

My gut feeling is that the difference would be around 30-40%. Information density of the UI of OS X 10.6 and contemporary software was much higher than today's tabletized "bouncy castle" style UI.

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2OEH8eoCRo0 160 days ago
It would be interesting but I don't think that information density necessarily makes a good interface.

As a personal pet peeve example, developers love to cram a search bar (or browser tabs) into the top of the window. It's more dense but it's also harder to use and drag the window.

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cosmic_cheese 160 days ago
True. More accurately, it's a combination of high density, judicial allocation of whitespace, and layouts that have been thought through. The 2000s versions of OS X were better in those regards too, though.
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fidotron 160 days ago
This is why multiple monitors win: put the distractions on a whole other screen.
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