New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

I love our mba11.

how is it for reading?

i want a world where i can lay out html in a WYSIWIG editor and have it turned into code, not where you have to use tags just to get your word processing documents to print fucking italics.

i don't know, tagging for layout was what I liked about Word Perfect.

cant wait for my 17" mba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_Utj4Aljc

how is it for reading?

― fields of salmon, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:54 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

the default text size is unreasonably small imo (think some site calculated that the mba has the highest PPI of all the laptop/desktops?). but I've bumped up the default text size in chrome and all the apps I use. (the only casualty so far is the apple store website.)

full screen mode helps, wish chrome would hurry up and implement it natively.

the 13" has screen that feels much 'larger' but I'm philosophically opposed to it. for example, I don't feel as if I could whip the 13" across the room with a wicked twist of the wrist and take someone's head off with it. the 11", on the other hand...

of course all of this would be pretty much moot if apple would hurry up and turn on resolution independence in lion.

I have the high-res macbook pro screen and it's deliciously pixel-dense

my eyes still kind of hurt from looking at this thing. gonna give it a few more days to see if I can 'adjust'

I also have the hi-res mbp 15". When working at a desk, I'm fine. When sitting on the couch with it in my lap surfing the web, I have to enlarge each webpage.

i've got all my stuff set to large print, p much.

squintiness is why i'm thinking i would not want a mba as my main computer

btw: http://www.etsy.com/listing/72293962/macbook-decal-for-all-13-inch-macbooks

I think the 13" would be okay, the display seems fine on that one. it's weird, I've got the text size set to pretty much the same size as my mbp, but it's still somehow more eye-strainy to read on the mba. hopefully it'll go away in the next few days.

the iPad doesn't seem as bad either, despite having a higher PPI I think?

Depends on the iPad. The first gen ones are pretty low res, the second gen just uses really big (pixel-wise) controls

wait I thought the first and second gen had identical displays?

urgh, they do, I was crossing iPad and iPhone in my head. Read "iPhone" for what I said, only with 3rd/4th gen :)

haha yeah that's why I wish apple would go ahead and do some sort of resolution independence.

just reduced the brightness level and that seems to help. might play around with contrast settings too. ctrl + opt + apple + <,> adjusts contrast, did not know that!

huh, so it does

okay eyes feel much better after toning down the brightness. does a MBA shot ambient light sensor?

sorry for clutterin up the new apple lust objects thread with a liveblog of new apple first world order problems

if it's the latest model w/ backlit keyboard then yes

dayo do u have Flux

I had it but uninstalled it on my mbp cause I was doing my photo editing at night and it was too jarring to switch to the blueness of the O.G. display around flux lush ambient orange amber burnt sienna

not gonna use this one for photos at all so maybe I'll flux it up!

i like to think there's been a lot of ~deep thinking~ at apple about resolution independence and when we get it it will be magical

replace "resolution independence" in the above with anything, i guess

i don't even know what it is!!

it means no matter how pixel-dense the display, text and graphics just scale appropriately. eg the iPhone 4 has 4x as many pixels as the iPhone 3, but everything is the same size - just smooooth.

unfortunately, resolution independence is not a trivial matter of just making sure you have a bunch of vector icons.

ohhhhhh

so for example my vision-challenged mom could scale up the size of everything and it wouldn't look chunky and stupid?? nice and pretty, just bigger?

yeah that's the ideal

tho it looks like everyone else wants it for insanely-high-rez photo/video while maintaining usably sized icons/menus etc

would also be great for asian markets - imo the default font size of asian text is too small on ANY mac desktop or laptop

[racist joke]

there it is

Am I the only one bummed out by how loud the fan(s) in the new Air is/are?

which is the quietest air? I thought the new ones might be fanless like ipads.

when's the next apple event

would it be possible to have cryogenic computing, where the signals cool down the transmission medium somehow

breaking some laws of thermodynamics is one way for tim cook to proclaim a new master's in the house.

The new ones have hotter processors so the fan kicks in early. Kinda seems too early sometimes. The thing will barely feel warm and the fan will start running.

how is that a "law of thermodynamics"?

I bow to mr. journey to baja's scientific rigor

newton postulated you can't keep drinks cool on a quake server, inspired by drunken match between him and leibniz.

full screen mode helps, wish chrome would hurry up and implement it natively.

Chrome Canary does it

i boosted my terminal font to 11pt a couple of months ago. so sad. menlo is great though.

They've scrapped resolution independence on the old model. The new model is the same as the iPhone's -- double or nothing.

If you have the latest Xcode you can flick the MBA into hires mode. Looks great, but it's basically 800x400 like some Toshiba palmtop of yore

caek what % of your time on a mac is spent in terminal

#! %

nah when i'm working (not the same thing as when i'm at work!), i guess it's about 60% if you count vi (the rest is email).

3yo ipod battery (classic 120 Gb) is starting to fade. Hoping against hope that Apple releases a 128 Gb nano or something similar. Perhaps I should just jump now and buy a 160 Gb classic.

caek i thought you did astronomy?

aa, it's pretty easy to change the battery on an ipod classic. you can get them on ebay or whatevs.

yeah, i do astronomy. it's all unix all the time.

p.s. version control for people who do not do "To look at page I
send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time."

http://www.layervault.com/