Q: Help with Yosemite Retina Display
Hello,
I will first say that I don't want to offend anyone here, but I am terribly frustrated having wasted a day trying to setup this new machine for development.
I have just been forced to switch to Yosemite by receiving a brand new Retina 15" Macbook Pro for work as a developer. You would think I would be elated, getting such an upgrade from my old 17", but after a day of googling around, calling Apple Care, etc., this machine is useless to me. I like to have lots of windows open while I am working: terminal windows, browser windows, email, IM, etc. In this fashion, I can watch everything that goes on while I change the code and modify things.
With the new Yosemite, EVERYTHING is huge on the screen. I see that I have a resolution of 2880x1800. That's a little larger than my 17" and on a smaller screen. When I logged in, there terminal windows are so large, that they take up nearly half the width. I can resize them manually, but there is no way to save these as default settings that I see. Web pages that used to be able to be shunted to the side now take up nearly the entire screen.
I thought I was crazy and just couldn't find the magic settings I needed to adjust things until I called Apple Care and they confirmed that I couldn't change things. The only offer they had for me was to use scaling to scale the screen differently, rather than using the native resolution on the screen and not forcing the OS to work at interpolating images and text, which we all know results in a terrible look on the screen.
To prove my point, I downloaded a fixed image, 1440x900 and opened it in Preview. When I go to View->Actual Size, it takes up the ENTIRE screen. How is that even possible if I am viewing a 1440x900 image on a 2880x1800 screen? It should be exactly half the size. I'm no spring chicken, but I am not losing my eyesight. Why is everything so BIG?
Someone please help me figure out how to set this OS to display pixel for pixel before I go insane, or before I have to pack this up, go back to my 17" Pro, and wait for Apple to obsolete it in favor of this terrible step back that is Yosemite.
Frustrated and wasting time,
Todd
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Posted on Jun 6, 2015 4:57 PM
I can resize them manually, but there is no way to save these as default settings that I see.
Shell > Use Settings as Default
Frequently asked questions about using a Retina display - Apple Support
Posted on Jun 6, 2015 5:36 PM






