"@Stroughtonsmith" - now there is a man currently being blacklisted across every tech corps in the valley and beyond as "can't be trusted to keep his yap shut".
Apple first needs to give its customer REAL choice in video cards. Their current offerings are crap. A mobile graphics card in the iMac? Are you kidding me?
These high res screens will put a dent in performance, thats for sure.
Matte screen please. Can someone explain what could take advantage of 3840x2160?
Its still a desktop. A crappy mobile GPU has no place in a desktop. I'll take an extra half inch in thickness that I'll never be bothered with if it means throwing in a video card that gives me RESPECTABLE performance.
As an objective Mac user, I fully defend in the PC users laughing at Macs for having the poorest choice in graphics.
Can someone explain what could take advantage of 3840x2160?
This is how a 27 iMac looks like with this superHiDPI enabled in Lion
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Yeah not like they have been releasing updated MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, MacBook Pros, etc. with nothing new like TB, or any new OS like Lion. It has been all iPhones (oh wait no it hasn't recently), iPads (oh wait no...), or iPods (oh wait no...).Would love to see apple focus on their computers again. It's all been iPods, iPhones, iPads...
Yeah not like they have been releasing updated MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, MacBook Pros, etc. with nothing new like TB, or any new OS like Lion. It has been all iPhones (oh wait no it hasn't recently), iPads (oh wait no...), or iPods (oh wait no...).
lol half ass updates don't count. Like your basic processor addition and maybe thunderbolt which has no peripherals yet!
Let me know when the last Mac Pro was released and when the last design change was. twerp.
Would love to see apple focus on their computers again. It's all been iPods, iPhones, iPads...
I got my wallet ready for a redesigned Macbook Pro (non unibody fan here)
The rumors been over the last 8 months that apple was looking to do a complete redesin and overhaul. Aswell as ad super high res displays.
Hope that this happens in February or something along those lines, the Macbook Pros are kind of dull unless you spend over 2k.
Also, because everyone thinks their a visionary genius by shooting down the idea (thus impeding technological adavancement) there are a ton of amazing advantages to such high res displays.
1) Text becomes much smoother, you don't notice the difference till you compare.
2) You can fit much more on one screen (This makes a big difference for DJ's or anyone that have to cram allot in such a small space
3) when working with 4k red footage, you can now view at full resolution.
Basically it helps any "PRO" mac user, those who use our computers for a living. Anyone that casually uses their Mac for facebook and iTunes won't really benefit and neither will understand the point.
Suck it haters.
Matte screen please. Can someone explain what could take advantage of 3840x2160?
Does anyone else find it funny that Microsoft uses the term "Retina Display" like it's the name of a technology, while it's a marketing name Apple created.
Next thing you will know, Microsoft will officially use this term everywhere and object to Apple's patent claiming it's a generic term.
However for UI elements that could use the extra resolution to display more content they can and will do that. For example na area of the UI showing an image can show more pixels from that image when the user zooms in, etc. The same can happen for things like audio timelines, etc. In other words they aren't locked to always show things at the same physical size, it depends on the UI element / context what will happen.Nope, it would have more resolution but everything should have more footprint too, what used to be a 100x100 icon would be 200x200 icon and so forth, just like the iPhone and it's retina display, you have more resolution but everything takes the same space in the screen as before.
I'm pretty sure that's the tweet, not Microsoft marketing lingo. When they showed off the intel Ultrabooks, there was nary a mention of the Macbook Air.
Does anyone else find it funny that Microsoft uses the term "Retina Display" like it's the name of a technology, while it's a marketing name Apple created.
Next thing you will know, Microsoft will officially use this term everywhere and object to Apple's patent claiming it's a generic term.
How about seeing text, etc. on your display at 200+ PPI instead of 100-110ish we have now? Your display would look more like a printed page instead of pixelated or heavily anti-alliased.
No, what I find funny is how you just made up that Microsoft is actually using the term "Retina Display".
Does anyone else find it funny that Microsoft uses the term "Retina Display" like it's the name of a technology, while it's a marketing name Apple created.
Next thing you will know, Microsoft will officially use this term everywhere and object to Apple's patent claiming it's a generic term.
That's why I said "officially". But still, no matter the communication method, the guy represents Microsoft and speaks publicly. He has to be professional.
That's like if Tim Cook replied to a fan email saying the next Apple TV will support Kinect technology. There's a lot of more professional ways to describe those features without using your competitor's marketing name.
Maybe I got the article wrong. Isn't the "He" @Stroughtonsmith is reffering to a Microsoft employee?