[Lt Major Burns]

why do we have nice 128x128 pixels? the little ones did an ok job... a 300 ppi OS (or more) is progress, and not just for the sake of it. the bandwidth problem... isnt one anymore - you physically nearly can't get a page to load faster now with safari and 512kb/s broadband. 2mb broadband is becoming popular, so that automatically erases the 4x load time. at the moment, your dock icons look great, because they're not pixelated. what if all the system fonts weren't smoothed down to sort of look nice, they were actually smooth. 300dpi smooth. look at the type currently on this page - it's a very simple sans serif, because it needs to be legible on our shitty 72/100ppi screens (!). Yes, it looks great now, but how long has the 72dpi standard been around? 10 years? 300ppi would make our current set-up look like vhs. why do we have to bitch about the font smoothing looking smudgy, or just crap, when we don't actually need any?

i'm not sure where this is going. i'm not trying to troll (although, i agree i'm starting to sound like that [sorry]), i just had a flash of inspiration whilst not doing any work, an wondered if anyone had had the smae idea or knew of any projects that had the same idea.

EDIT: no, i don't just want a display that can handle 300ppi. that should be a pre-requisite. i want the whole thing to be 300ppi -

MacOS 12 - 300dpi edition. SuperHD MacOS.