Lowering resolution for tiring eyes

Hi, I'm looking to get some advice about 13.3" laptops because my daughter is looking to buy one and I've told her to not get anything less than 1920 x 1080 resolution. I admit however that on a display smaller than 15.6", it starts getting small.

Years ago I remember when any resolution other than the native one was really not crisp. Has this changed at all? The model she likes comes only in 13.3" (HP Spectre x360) and I dont know how much of a difference getting a 15.6" would make (at same resolution) OR if lowering the resolution a bit would make things as crisp on screen...

Does anyone know?

I think not. Any resolution other than native resolution tends to look like crap.

"Basically you can make it where everything is 125% , 150%, or whatever of the regular size. That would make everything on the screen bigger without lowering the resolution."

Oh I see... so instead of lowering the resolution from 1920x1080 to say 1280x780 (etc) she could leave it on as native 1920x1080 but use Windows 10's 125% feature to make things a bit bigger yet remain super crisp?

Is this what you mean?

Be aware that some software will have a issue if you increase the DPI size above 100%. This is typically reflected in various Dialog Boxes. So far I have found that it tends to be some "specialty" software that has this issue. The specialty software I am referring to typically is the industrial automation programming and visualization packages.

I think this explains why some installer boxes seem to have slightly "blurry" text say in their instructions, but then the generic buttons no the box are crisp.

PLCMAN58 said:

Be aware that some software will have a issue if you increase the DPI size above 100%. This is typically reflected in various Dialog Boxes. So far I have found that it tends to be some "specialty" software that has this issue.

Yeah - Adobe Reader has this problem. I've also come across some websites which don't play nicely on scaled displays, in Firefox and I think IE11.