It also helps that they control both the hardware ecosystem and the OS, so using them to compare to Microsoft isn't quite apples to apples (har har).īut I think the viewing distance point raised above relates to this chart.

Apple can provide a much better scaling experience because they didn't provide any scaling in Mac OS at all before Retina, so they only had to introduce scaling support for 200%, which is much more easily accomplished than supporting an arbitrary scale factor like Windows does. A big reason people have been interested in this panel in the first place is that it allows you to use 4K without any scaling. The point was that for Windows, 200% scaling can be a nightmare because not every application - or even every aspect of Windows - scales nicely or even scales at all, so beauty might be trumped by a loss of functionality on an 8K version of this display.