Heh, excellent point I hadn't thought of. Commercial should have been:
Squinting Guy: "Excuse me, how are you reading that? In this light?"
Girl With Shades: "Sunglasses. Duh."
*fade out*
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Heh, excellent point I hadn't thought of. Commercial should have been:
Squinting Guy: "Excuse me, how are you reading that? In this light?"
Girl With Shades: "Sunglasses. Duh."
*fade out*
Got my Oakley 5's fro $90. Lightest and most comfortable pair of sunglasses I've owned. Fit's perfect with my motorcycle helmet on. But my Juliets are my babies. Though I bought them at the same time as my first motorcycle with my in store credit, I can't say I paid for them outright.
Hmmm, when I used to try to read a physical, paper-paged book in the bright sunlight at lunch the white pages were too blinding. So I guess this means the iPad is more book like. Most times inuse my glossy iPhone outside is fine just adjust slightly.
You can use sunglasses with a real book, or with Kindle. Polarised sunglasses have odd effects on my iPhone.
I hear that. I have three pairs of Oakley Juliets (different frame metals and lens colors), and just like the Apple Macs I've owned, they were well worth the extra dough.
If I'm using my phone wearing my Maui Jim's - it's fine, until I rotate to landscape and slide out the keyboard. Then the screen is absolutely black. Slide the sunglasses up, and it's fine.
Nearly the same thing with my big Dell IPS screens - rotate the screen to portrait and it's nearly black with sunglasses. (Since Apple doesn't believe that you should have the choice to watch a big monitor in portrait mode, you'll need to simulate the effect by tilting your head 90 degrees.)
Not that I wear sunglasses in the office -- but it's a common effect with LCD monitors. Many of them are strongly polarized.
There is no need to rotate a big monitor to portrait mode. If it's big enough to view two life-sized pages side-by-side, what the hell would you turn it to portrait for? Wow, you just can't make a post without including some inane Apple bashing, can you?
It's really beyond sad.
There is no need to rotate a big monitor to portrait mode. If it's big enough to view two life-sized pages side-by-side, what the hell would you turn it to portrait for? Wow, you just can't make a post without including some inane Apple bashing, can you?
It's really beyond sad.
I am new here and learning to ignore the Apple haters. I still have no idea why they are here if they don't like Apple. After all, this is a Mac specific forum. I could never comprehend going to a windows site and bashing windows (windows bashes itself with its track record).
Unless I own an airport terminal, I don't see why I would have the need to turn a large display portrait. Oh wait, if I turn my iMac portrait I could have a top loading super drive.
Perhaps for you - but I'd rather look at one larger page in portrait than two small pages side-by-side in landscape. (The unfortunate trend towards 16x9 monitors makes this even more important.) On my main office system I have three 1920x1200 24" monitors in landscape, and one 1600x1200 21" monitor in portrait.
If I'm reading a PDF (or other text document), it goes on the portrait monitor while I work on the other monitors. Often the PDF is a reference document that I'm using for something that I'm creating on another monitor.
There's also the situation that with four large monitors, the portrait screen (the leftmost) isn't 30cm from my eyes, so the larger image is quite useful.
So in spite of your self-righteous claim that "there is no need" - I find it quite useful to have a 21" monitor in portrait, and appreciate the swivel mount that comes standard with the screen.
They did put VESA mounts on their displays... So I still have the "choice" right?
Sure - more cha-ching to buy 3rd party swivel arm mounts if you want to adjust the rotation or height of your Apple monitor. Comes with the Dell for no extra charge. (And don't forget the $29 VESA adapter tax - most other monitors have VESA mounting holes standard - so no Apple tax to put them on a 3rd party arm.)
I don't think that "choice" is in the Apple OSX dictionary.
I've never seen a Microsoft monitor, so your point seems to be absurd.
Would have been better off saving the money for drinks and go, "I have vodka in my room. Wanna come up, get drunk and *****?" Yes, that has worked!
Congratulations for helping to confirm that men are pigs.
The blatant sexism must be offensive to the relatively few women who try to follow MacRumours.
How was that terrible? They proved they're point in a funny way, and the best part is that there was an attractive woman in a bikini! What's not to love (unless you're a gay man or a straight woman)?
I think the iPad is a great device, however when it comes to e-books the Kindle beats it hands down. There isn't a backlight shining in your eyes and its as if you were reading a paper back.
I know several people with a kindle and an iPad, they like and use them both. I don't see why everyone has to turn this into a 'war'.
And I'm probably the only honest man you will meet. The rest just hide it well. Few are not. Live with it. No apology here.
No one can really figure out why so many trolls and haters are drawn to this forum. It's really quite pathetic that people who apparently hate a company and its products so much, can't simply choose not to buy anything from them and just move on with their lives. Much like you, I have no need to visit/join a Windows, Android, Mercedes, etc. forum and waste my spare time making post after post berating what people are there to discuss, simply because I chose to buy a competing product. But I guess some people are so massively insecure about their non-Apple purchases, that they think attempting to rain on the parade of the vast majority of satisfied users will somehow validate their tech purchasing decisions. That, or we've got some gigantic masochists on our hands here. Either way, it's just sad.
Indeed. I can't stand Microsoft and feel cheated all these years for spending thousands of dollars on buggy, unreliable, "third-rate" software. So my solution is - I don't buy anything Microsoft. That was easy, effortless, and keeps money in my pocket for my next Apple purchase like Apple TV. There is no need for me to waste my time joining a MS forum to hate on MS. I have wasted plenty of time in the past with MS trouble shooting their inferior products. Now if only I had some windows/android/kindle troll repellant that would be great.