My guess is that the purpose of this is not for those 20, 23, or even 30 inch Cinema Displays that Apple sells. I'm guessing this is for that giant 60" HDTV with 1080p resolution you have sitting in your living room.Think about it.
"Meanwhile in Redmond they've almost perfected Vista at high-dpi long before Apple."No, they haven't. Vista isn't out. It's not even out until 2007.Apple's Quartz has supported resolution independence since 2000 (and hardware accelerated compositing since 2002). Apple beat Microsoft by seven years; they're taking advantage of the power of their APIs and adding the ability to scale the Aqua interface now that processors are fast enough to do it without ruining the user experience."So, yet another story ful of comments praising apple's genius when it's been implemented before."You're just bitter that Windows will barely match OS X Tiger's (released in April 2005) feature set in 2007.
Think of resolution independence as zooming the screen. You know how often people will say "Can I just make everything bigger?" Or, on the other end of the spectrum, power users swoon over new displays that pack a few more pixels into the screen. Previously, you could choose a screen resolution that emulated how many pixels your screen was made up of. The problem is that on modern flat panel LCD screens, this emulation is never desirable and leaves things looking grainy and pixelated.This changes all that. Imagine having a zoom slider for your computer. With one slider everything on your screen grows or shrinks. It's perfectly natural, smooth, and it happens live.It could be a lot more "right around the corner" than you may imagine.
Umm... Big screen TVs still have pretty crappy resolutions for the most part (especially when you consider it at dpi). Huge screens are the case when you wouldn't necessarily want to be able to specify UI components in real world units.
Joe Consumer will buy an Average-Joe-PC™, which includes Windows Average-Joe Edition.Meanwhile, designers and media makers, who care a lot about that sort of thing, are the major market for Macs.
ajwillysMay 19, 2006
My guess is that the purpose of this is not for those 20, 23, or even 30 inch Cinema Displays that Apple sells. I'm guessing this is for that giant 60" HDTV with 1080p resolution you have sitting in your living room.Think about it.
Closed AccountMay 19, 2006
"Meanwhile in Redmond they've almost perfected Vista at high-dpi long before Apple."No, they haven't. Vista isn't out. It's not even out until 2007.Apple's Quartz has supported resolution independence since 2000 (and hardware accelerated compositing since 2002). Apple beat Microsoft by seven years; they're taking advantage of the power of their APIs and adding the ability to scale the Aqua interface now that processors are fast enough to do it without ruining the user experience."So, yet another story ful of comments praising apple's genius when it's been implemented before."You're just bitter that Windows will barely match OS X Tiger's (released in April 2005) feature set in 2007.
drewhamlinMay 19, 2006
Think of resolution independence as zooming the screen. You know how often people will say "Can I just make everything bigger?" Or, on the other end of the spectrum, power users swoon over new displays that pack a few more pixels into the screen. Previously, you could choose a screen resolution that emulated how many pixels your screen was made up of. The problem is that on modern flat panel LCD screens, this emulation is never desirable and leaves things looking grainy and pixelated.This changes all that. Imagine having a zoom slider for your computer. With one slider everything on your screen grows or shrinks. It's perfectly natural, smooth, and it happens live.It could be a lot more "right around the corner" than you may imagine.
pockyMay 19, 2006
Umm... Big screen TVs still have pretty crappy resolutions for the most part (especially when you consider it at dpi). Huge screens are the case when you wouldn't necessarily want to be able to specify UI components in real world units.
zootmMay 19, 2006
Could anyone tell me if this means they've finally gotten Quartz 2D stable?
zippoMay 19, 2006
Joe Consumer will buy an Average-Joe-PC™, which includes Windows Average-Joe Edition.Meanwhile, designers and media makers, who care a lot about that sort of thing, are the major market for Macs.
kcoraxMay 20, 2006
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robbh66May 23, 2006
Stop spamming your stupid submitt in other threads