New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

if you hold it close enough to your face you can only just discern pixels, but in ordinary use you would never do that

weight and thickness almost indiscernible btw, you really have to be working hard in order to see or feel the difference

markers i can't run a wall-bounce test until icloud backup is restored (50 mins remaining)

- 90% to 0% battery in just under six hours, with screen constantly on at 100% brightness, downloading ~20 GB of apps and doing some moderate gfx
- pdfs look incredible
- new yorker looks like shit

i'm starting to think that the billions and billions of 72ppi images out there on the web are going to have to be replaced, one by one

i mean either that or all the images out there are going to look really, really small

put that way, are web designers actually keeping everything at 72 but just making all their images larger?

surely the browser engine scales things up appropriately? or does it really honor pixel measurements and make all web pages 1/4 of the size? that would be nuts.

well i don't really know, but an image on a 264ppi screen will be half the apparent size as the same image on a 132ppi screen, right?

you would think, but then the same would happen to text specified in pixels - not uncommon practice in css - which would render it unreadable. so i would guess (oh for an ipad 3 of my own) that apple must scale things up to some theoretical non-minuscule 'pixel' size which is bigger than an actual pixel? idk. it's complicated.

yeah i would imagine there would be a hard lower bound of say 7pt effective size. web designers have had like a decade to use ems at this point though.

yeah but when images are in pixels it's understandable that they still get used as a universal measure. What do you do when you want text and images to match up? Somewhere I can hear the tinny voice of a web designer screaming "THE WEB IS NOT PRINT!" but looking at many sites these days you could easily be fooled; I think that voice is getting quieter and quieter.

i honestly don't know! i've been away from the coalface too long.

same here tbh.

some good stuff on a list apart, as usual:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fluid-images/

ah "browser specific issues". the one and only reason i am exceedingly glad i don't do actual web design any more.

my takeaway here is that the old mentality of "reduce the K size of your image to be no bigger than it absolutely needs to be at that exact size" is out the window; now it's "make your image as big as it might ever conceivably need to be rendered"

I may own a new iPad. Just chucking my apps etc onto it now.

Yo dude that wasn't an iPad, it was a pizza

do you guys think they already replaced most of the demo units in apple stores with ipad 3s? probably right? i'm sure they still have a couple ipad 2s out too since they're still selling them, but as of today this is the flagship ipad, so

also, y'all who are buying this, how much storage are you getting? why?

Yeah, there were reports/pics of them swapping out the store units.

my 32GB one is on a truck. I had a 16GB first-gen iPad, never really loaded it up with music or whatevs, figure I'll need to double that to keep up with the times

ah cool. thanks! 32 seems reasonable

kinda tempted to stop by the apple store just to see one of these things in person

I just got a 16gb wi-fi; I don't really store music or video on it, sand we have wi-fi at home and at work.

I got the 32 gig wifi. Previously had the ipad 2 32 gig wifi, with about 10 gigs of free space.

I'm going with the 16GB because that was fine on the ipad 2 for me - don't really put music or movies on the thing as it's mainly for work - but I have a sneaking suspicion that the enhanced display is going to cause app, file, and image size bloat. interested to see how that pans out.

16GB 4G just arrived. Wheeeeeee

SO MANY PIXELS

zounds. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/EarBud/archives/2012/03/16/mike-daisey-fabricated-the-foxconn-story

just saw that!

damn, must mean working for foxconn is super rewarding and respectful

ya what a relief

just got back from the apple store -- got 2 try 1 out

i can now say that i've opened this thread from an ipad (3)

I will not get to experience the wonder till next week. How dare my wife get me a present but wait too long to get the first batch!

dope present imo

yeah, she's the bomb.

So apparently there's no way to get iPhoto albums on your iPad without syncing all your apps to the Mac as well. I tried doing it without syncing apps and it fucking deleted all my apps. SO angry right now

Give us the best screen in the universe and NO WAY to get our photos on there, good one Apple you divs

i think you're supposed to grab an iphone w/ ios 5 installed & then bring up each individual picture on your mac's screen, take a picture of it, then wait for it to go up into icloud and once you've done this for all your pictures you can put them into albums on yr ipad

that's ridiculous

No help on Google at all, it's like the fanboys just suck it up

nobody knows what you're talking about

If you want to put iPhoto albums on your iPad, you can only do it through iTunes, and iTunes either transfers all your iOS apps to your Mac (wtfffff) or deletes all your apps off your iPad. I bought the PhotoSync app which does the simple thing that Apple is apparently too thick to implement.

who cares if yr apps are synced to yr Mac tho? Why is that a problem?

Because (a) they don't do anything on a Mac (b) I don't have enough drive space for 13 GB of apps

I just want to put my photos on my iPad, that's all

he muttered quietly to himself

;_;

latest iPhoto should support photostream, right?