Apple: please fix!

The developer's Mac Pro crashed so he had to finish the job on paint on his netbook

 

oh for christ sake. Get over it! It's such a minor thing. Besides I have my dock hide until I bring my cursor down. I suggest you do the same.

 

Sell it and get a windows laptop if it bugs you that much.

 

Not really a big deal, but from a company that justifies it's higher cost products with better polish on the software and hardware, it is a bit surprising... Is this an issue only with the new retina displays, or this an old issue?

 

Its called aliasing and its 'normal'. The simplest way to fix it is to get the retina MBP I guess they could apply some sort of AA to the dock borders though...

 

If it really worries you, open a terminal and enter:

Code:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

If you don't like it, return to normal with:

Code:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO; killall Dock

 

Early adopter, you know how it is wait on ML Apple`s not going to invest too much time in Lion for Retina users...

 

Problem is with your eyesight.... its too good

 

That is very interesting! I always though that Dock is drawn on the flight, not pre-rendered. Seems I was wrong.

 

With 30 trillion dollars profit last quarter surely Apple can afford to hire a team of people to look for issues like this. Disgraceful way to cut corners (literally).

 

We want perfection? We? Not only.

Jonathan Ive (i.e Apple) wants perfection, and nothing less. Watch the MacBook Pro unibody production video. He explains in this video how much perfection Apple wants.

Yeah, sure. That is what the OP wants. *lol*

Someone should write a patch for the dock. I'm sure the developers forgot to use some anti-aliasing flag in the code which provides the dock functionality.

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You are holding it wrong.

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Not?

 

I didn't know what was wrong with the image until I got pretty far into the thread. Hmmm. That's strange. I'm almost certain the dock surface is rendered on the fly, with reflections and shadows factored in at render time. The aliasing is almost surely an artifact caused by improper communication between the dock's rendering software, the UIview it sends its messages to, and the pixel doubling feature for the retina display.

In other words, in my opinion, the part of the code that draws the dock edge is drawing a good edge, for a low density display, which is then being doubled with the poor results you are seeing.

Surely this will be fixed in Mountain Lion.

 

Just looked as I am running ML DP 4 with all the updates and cannot see any jaggies on my Macbook Air and made the dock look as big as I could.

 

Here's a quick screen grab.

 

There are seriously some of the most OCD people on this forum. First 4 dead pixels so microscopic he literally had to take pics with a microscope to show them...now this. Start using your computer, not picking apart every little detail!

 

This coming from the guy that insists that soldered RAM is faster because of the wire length.

 

I'm on a 13" MBP at my office and don't have that...weird, as others have said I thought the dock was dynamically rendered.

 

Not OCD...simply technical. Never said how much faster. Are you seriously going to hijack another thread with your idiocy?

 

theoretically it is true that if the wires are shorter, it can be faster, but the difference is no negligible you wouldn't even see it in benchmarks. There is also no guarantee that the wires are shorter, as no one is looking into how the traces are routed on the board.

 

Back on topic it looks like the OP just threw his toys out the pram about the comments and his nick name suits him I reckon.

 

So, it's nit picking unless you're doing it.

This coming from the guy that dragged the 4 pixel thread into this one.

 

I think your previous post was idiotic. Lol.