I've recently been studying typography and it's been really heartbreaking to realize that what differentiates a good and a bad typeface onscreen is how it well it renders. Plenty of great typefaces are just unusable. Most fonts distort wildly as you step up/down in pixel size. I didn't start in print design, but man is web design primitive in comparison!
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#12Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber. Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
I'm not sure what your critique is. He's not a politician or TV host getting paid by the bad Apple to write/say nice lies about them... He writes about Apple, and people visit his website to read what he writes. It's that simple.
If you disagree with any of his points, please post them in this topic. But don't go dismissing it just because it's from arch-apparatchik Gruber.
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#13Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber. Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
Let me just be straight up. I'm normally an Apple skeptic and I work primarily on Linux. That said, I don't think anybody else would've bothered to make retina display available to the general public until Apple forced their hand and made it available themselves...
That said, I don't think anybody else would've bothered to make retina display available to the general public until Apple forced their hand and made it available themselves...
The technology was coming, it was just a matter of time. Apple are in the unique position of controlling both the hardware and the software, which makes it far easier for them release this in a nice way where the OS and much of the software works well as soon as they made the hardware available.
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#14> Think about that: a laptop with no performance tradeoff compared to a high-end desktop.
It helps if that high end desktop hasn't been updated in two years.
For CPU performance, laptops lagging a couple of years behind desktops is more or less business as usual.
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#15So more pixels is great. Is it really that great?
I feel like there are people who look at their devices and people who look at what's displayed on their devices.
For me, text is text is text. I'm looking at it, not so I can enjoy how crisp it is (or isn't), but so I can consume those words and get them inside my head.
I find (I've played around with high DPI devices) that while they do look nice, the niceness is quickly forgotten when I actually start using them for something other than looking at how nice they look. Likewise, going back to use lower DPI devices you notice the difference, until you stop looking for it and actually get work done.
I'm not saying that I don't care entirely, I just... I wouldn't go and buy a new device solely because its resolution was higher. It will be nice when these devices eventually make it to me, but I'm not really bothered either way.
If we were to talk about recent revolutions in the home computer I'd rank multi-core CPUs as a much more important change. No longer can one broken app go on a rampage and block you out.
Anyway, tl;dr; it's great he's passionate about it, I just don't see it as such as important thing.
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#16Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber. Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
I'm not sure what your critique is. He's not a politician or TV host getting paid by the bad Apple to write/say nice lies about them... He writes about Apple, and people visit his website to read what he writes. It's that simple. If you disagree with any of his points, please post them in this topic. But don't go dismissing it just because it's from arch-apparatchik Gruber .
As he himself has written on his blog, in exchange for this kind of PR he gets invited to private meetings inside Apple.
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#17So more pixels is great. Is it really that great? I feel like there are people who look at their devices and people who look at what's displayed on their devices. For me, text is text is text. I'm looking at it, not so I can enjoy how crisp it is (or isn't), but so I can consume those words and get them inside my head. I find (I've played around with high DPI devices) that while they do look nice, the niceness is qui…
I have an iPad 3 and an iPad 2. The "retina" display is certainly a nice upgrade but it's hardly essential. This is obviously where the industry has been heading for a while and the only thing interesting about it here is that Apple's supply chain dynamics makes it possible for them to get 6-12 months ahead of the competition.
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#19So more pixels is great. Is it really that great? I feel like there are people who look at their devices and people who look at what's displayed on their devices. For me, text is text is text. I'm looking at it, not so I can enjoy how crisp it is (or isn't), but so I can consume those words and get them inside my head. I find (I've played around with high DPI devices) that while they do look nice, the niceness is qui…
Some people make a point of appreciating the small joys of life. Others do not. Much effort and attention is lost on the latter.
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#20So more pixels is great. Is it really that great? I feel like there are people who look at their devices and people who look at what's displayed on their devices. For me, text is text is text. I'm looking at it, not so I can enjoy how crisp it is (or isn't), but so I can consume those words and get them inside my head. I find (I've played around with high DPI devices) that while they do look nice, the niceness is qui…
Anyone who has used one of these knows they're awesome, and that words do not do it justice.
I think at this point, Grubber just needed to commit that entry to the historical record as a member of the top tier of Apple reviewers/fanboys/critics.