MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge

Post by CJefferson » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 8:19 AM UTC

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No, they're not right about it. I completely agree with you that making the computing experience simpler, more like poking buttons on a high-end blender, is what most consumers need. Satisfying what most consumers need is most likely what the companies need. The companies have as much right to want what's best for themselves as I do. They're not doing anything wrong, IMO. That does not automatically make their design…

I think you might be missing the point... Even customization is becoming easier. Consider the ease of jail breaking iOS vs rooting an Android device along wth the push button tweakability that is Cydia and you quickly realize that even the tinkerer/customiser world is headed for liberation from complexity. The world of code and hackers and the purity of possibility will always be there but bringing greater Technologi…

Post by mstange » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 9:12 AM UTC

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I'm curious to know how Mac handles apps moving between a Retina Display Mac and a non-Retina display (Thunderbolt, whatever). Apps need to be updated to handle retina, otherwise they draw double pixels.. so what happens when you have a window that's halfway between a Retina and non-Retina? My two guesses: 1. The entire window draws as doubled pixels, as if it didn't support Retina at all 2. The window gets two separ…

Post by xentronium » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 9:31 AM UTC

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Window management: I prefer cascaded windows (the bottom-left corners effectively start working like tabs - see http://blog.barrkel.com/2009/11/on-difficulty-of-setting-win... ). Tiled windows are a waste of screen space; I have far more open windows than can ever fit tiled. And what about package managers? Cygwin has a package manager; combined with cygports, it has just about everything I need, resolves dependencie…

> Tiled windows are a waste of screen space; I have far more open windows than can ever fit tiled. That's what multiple workspaces are for. Tiling WMs are especially great when working with large and/or multiple monitors. You're not forced to always use tile mode, you can easily switch between layouts via hotkey: http://xmonad.org/tour.html Also, a lot of smart people disagree with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

Post by userulluipeste » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 9:46 AM UTC

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Re-read what I wrote and think about it. I knew it would be open for creative interpretations like yours. I did not attribute the Internet to Microsoft. What I said is that "Microsoft enabled an incredible level of global competition" and it is this competition that, in turn, allowed the internet to evolve into what we have today. Yes, networking existed way before MS. Yes, TBL wrote the first browser on NS. Yes, MS…

MS, in turn, just did the software and let everyone else figure out the hardware. Microsoft had nothing to do with the openness of the PC architecture. By the time MS had any influence, the PC market had already been well established with several manufacturers churning out PC clones. It was the cheap PC hardware that resulted from the evolution of the PC around the MS software... Isn't it the other way around? At lea…

Post by danbee » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 10:29 AM UTC

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They're LED backlit IPS panels.

Oh shucks! Nice then, but could be nicer.