Apple Rotating Display?

[g4cube]

The link you posted doesn't work and I called a friend at ATI - they said no such software or capability exists in ANY of their cards for the Mac - it does in PCs.

The link works.

The card works.

On a Mac running OS X.

The Apple OEM version of the Radeon 9800 is DIFFERENT; only the retail version supports this capability.

 

[Liske]

9800 ATI Pro

This would be a question for any who have a 9800 Pro RETAIL and use portrait mode...

I am a web developer and wondering if any others out there work in portrait mode when developing websites or working in Macromedia Flash.

[The ATI link does blow a bit, I think it crashes Safari often on my computer. Thanks all for validating.]

Thanks
JL

 

[bryantm3]

i do not understand what is being explained.
can someone post a drawing?

 

[Doctor Q]

i do not understand what is being explained.
can someone post a drawing?

If you are talking about how a swivel screen might look, see this post by abenoboy, who provides a link to a mockup photo. The idea is that the hardware and software would let you turn the screen and have the display adjust automatically to suit the new aspect ratio.

If you are talking about a handheld device, then the same idea applies. You'd turn the device whichever way you like and the software would accommodate it to make the display face you.

 

[Piker]

Ah, the possibilities

Immediate thoughts: Can they make a Cinema Display stand on it's side? What about a "tablet" powerbook? On a flat panel iMac that would be easy to implement and intensely cool.

Realistic thoughts: What practical application would call for a person to need to rotate their display from horizontal widescreen to vertical "tallscreen"? Not sure I can think of too many that would appeal to the masses enough to warrant the massive redesign it would take to implement this feature (except for the iMac). But who knows.

I quote Will Farrell (Frank "The Tank" Ricard) from Old School: "Maybe it's something really cool, that I don't even know about."

-Piker

 

[Doctor Q]

Maybe somebody will think of a reason you'd want to turn your screen 45 degrees and use it in "diamond-orientation". Maybe for playing baseball games on the computer?

 

[patriotn11]

Goldengate bridge desktop photo

Where can I get the desktop photo the new powerbook displays at the apple website, that is a cool desktop display.

Please let me know.

Michael

 

[tex210]

piker

Realistic thoughts: What practical application would call for a person to need to rotate their display from horizontal widescreen to vertical "tallscreen"? Not sure I can think of too many that would appeal to the masses enough to warrant the massive redesign it would take to implement this feature (except for the iMac). But who knows.

I quote Will Farrell (Frank "The Tank" Ricard) from Old School: "Maybe it's something really cool, that I don't even know about."

-Piker

think of it like expose, where everything shifts when you want a different perspective, on the fly, or as someone said earlier, the user switch, but a rotate. From editing a portrait, turn when web browsing, or typing..
words look better
when they
don't look
like this...

but when a line of text goes for a nice little span across the screen it's easier on the eyes.

I imagine a modern color screen dana type, with a better than psion keyboard clammed(shell) under it.

 

[ibjoshua]

Maybe somebody will think of a reason you'd want to turn your screen 45 degrees and use it in "diamond-orientation". Maybe for playing baseball games on the computer?

nice!


Things I noticed from the
schematics on the Patents Office site.

1. They refer to a 'flat panel display'
2. The lowest resolution in the examples is 640x480 and the highest is 1024x768

The reference to a flat panel display immediately suggests that it was potential Newton technology until you look at those resolutions.
From my point of view the most interesting thing about this post is that Apple was predicting relatively widespread availablity of flat panel displays for desktops as early as 1996.
I agree with other posters, this patent probably does not reperesent any new products.

i_b_joshua

 

[jackthemac]

Cool...

ATI demoed this with their 9800s at Macworld SF...

something that ATI brings to the table that has not been done before is the fact that the rotating display with the RADEON is not done through software but is hardware accelerated... unlike offerings from other manufacturers... they may even own the patent.

 

[gadg]

Mac OS X Tablet edition?

As a bonus it would be another unique Mac feature.

Microsoft incorporated this into their Windows XP Tablet version last year. I tested a tablet pc for a while. Also, their Pocket PC version does the same.

I would love for this technology to be used by Apple in Powerbooks, together with tablet functionality. This weekend I had to decide between a Tablet PC and a Powerbook and decided the latter, mainly because I wanted to switch to Apple ... but also because tablet use is still only personal productivity gain, not connected productivity gain, for instance: hand written emails would get sent as a TIFF attachment ... yuck!

Should Apple decide to make a tablet notebook, I'm sure they would find a way to make it all work smoothly.