How to adjust your Mac display’s resolution settings<article>
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Macs ship with the display set at a certain resolution, and Apple defines this in the technical specifications for each model. But with Retina displays, these numbers can get confusing: there is the display’s resolution and the “looks like” resolution used on the Mac. Resolutions on Retina Macs look like half the actual number of pixels measured vertically and horizontally because of “pixel doubling.”</p><p>
For example, if you have (as I do) a 5K iMac, the display resolution is 5120x2880, but the Displays pane of System Preferences tells me that it looks like 2560x1440.</p><figure class="large " itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="
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The Displays pane of System Preferences offers a choice of display resolutions.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3024239/macs/how-to-adjust-your-mac-displays-resolution-settings.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to adjust your Mac display’s resolution settings
