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Isn't rescaling usually done by the display driver? I am fairly certain this is the case for external displays. Are laptop displays any different?
Edit: with "display driver" I mean the hardware chip behind the display panel, dedicated to converting a video signal to the electrical signals necessary to turn on the individual pixels.
For an external display I'd bet the case is the hardware driver for the panel.
At least my 17" Powerbook G4 with a massive 2560x1440 display does it in the software display driver. I'm sure some laptop panels do it in hardware as well, but seems there's some very janky shit going on at least with laptops that have both integrated and discrete GPUs.