Retina

[Jason Osgood]

First, I’d like to apologize for something I repeatedly stated earlier this year.

Far and wide, I praised the Macbook Air 13” as the single best piece of hardware, laptop, computer, personal productivity booster I had ever experienced. I truly believed it at the time. I meant no deceit.

I recently adopted a Macbook Pro 13” Retina. And learned how wrong I was. Its height and width is a bit smaller, in exchange for more depth. And 1/2 lb heavier. A far trade.

I’m absolutely in love with the 2560 x 1600 Retina display. I think I always knew I would be. But feeling the smooth font rendering gently caress my laboring eyeballs makes the experience emotional. I honestly believe I’m more productive using the Retina.

Now when I use my iMac 27” or work issued Macbook Pro (pre Retina), it feels like I’m being stabbed in the face. Unpleasant.

Now I’m desperate for the large screen Retina experience. I fear getting something non-Apple, because they seem to do the best with hardware and software integration. But I’m trying to keep an open mind.

In conclusion, I’m looking for a big ass monitor to maybe hookup to a Mac Mini.

Recommendations?

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[Jim McBeath]

I wonder if you could use a small 4K TV. Resolution 3940 x 2160.
A quick google found a 39-in Seiki [sic] for $700. Maybe still too big a
screen for use as a monitor, though.
http://www.whathifi.com/news/seiko-launches-39in-4k-tv-for-699

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Jim

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 06:06:35 -0800
Subject: [seajug] Retina
First, I’d like to apologize for something I repeatedly stated earlier this year.
Far and wide, I praised the Macbook Air 13” as the single best piece of hardware, laptop, computer, personal productivity booster I had ever experienced. I truly believed it at the time. I meant no deceit.
I recently adopted a Macbook Pro 13” Retina. And learned how wrong I was. Its height and width is a bit smaller, in exchange for more depth. And 1/2 lb heavier. A far trade.
I’m absolutely in love with the 2560 x 1600 Retina display. I think I always knew I would be. But feeling the smooth font rendering gently caress my laboring eyeballs makes the experience emotional. I honestly believe I’m more productive using the Retina.
Now when I use my iMac 27” or work issued Macbook Pro (pre Retina), it feels like I’m being stabbed in the face. Unpleasant.
Now I’m desperate for the large screen Retina experience. I fear getting something non-Apple, because they seem to do the best with hardware and software integration. But I’m trying to keep an open mind.
In conclusion, I’m looking for a big ass monitor to maybe hookup to a Mac Mini.
Recommendations?
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[Neel Kumar]

Wow! Now, there is a TV. I mean monitor :)

Post by Jim McBeath
I wonder if you could use a small 4K TV. Resolution 3940 x 2160.
A quick google found a 39-in Seiki [sic] for $700. Maybe still too big a
screen for use as a monitor, though.
http://www.whathifi.com/news/seiko-launches-39in-4k-tv-for-699
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Jim

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 06:06:35 -0800
Subject: [seajug] Retina
First, I’d like to apologize for something I repeatedly stated earlier

this year.

Far and wide, I praised the Macbook Air 13” as the single best piece of

hardware, laptop, computer, personal productivity booster I had ever
experienced. I truly believed it at the time. I meant no deceit.

I recently adopted a Macbook Pro 13” Retina. And learned how wrong I

was. Its height and width is a bit smaller, in exchange for more depth. And
1/2 lb heavier. A far trade.

I’m absolutely in love with the 2560 x 1600 Retina display. I think I

always knew I would be. But feeling the smooth font rendering gently caress
my laboring eyeballs makes the experience emotional. I honestly believe I’m
more productive using the Retina.

Now when I use my iMac 27” or work issued Macbook Pro (pre Retina), it

feels like I’m being stabbed in the face. Unpleasant.

Now I’m desperate for the large screen Retina experience. I fear getting

something non-Apple, because they seem to do the best with hardware and
software integration. But I’m trying to keep an open mind.

In conclusion, I’m looking for a big ass monitor to maybe hookup to a

Mac Mini.

Recommendations?
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[Jason Osgood]

Post by Jim McBeath
I wonder if you could use a small 4K TV. Resolution 3940 x 2160.

You remind me that people are expecting Apple to have a new 4K offering when the new Mac Pro ships.

I hate waiting.

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[Konstantin Ignatyev]

The point of retina is to have 200ppi or better, so bit screens with many
pixels do not work the same, it is all about density of those pixels as
related to viewing distance. so, scientifically correct measurement should
be pixel -per-degree I guess.

Post by Jason Osgood

Post by Jim McBeath
I wonder if you could use a small 4K TV. Resolution 3940 x 2160.

You remind me that people are expecting Apple to have a new 4K offering
when the new Mac Pro ships.
I hate waiting.

--
Konstantin Ignatyev

PS: If this is a typical day on planet Earth, humans will add fifteen
million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of
tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between
forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil,
add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population
by 263,000

Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a
Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State
University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206)

[dev danke]

Does this post have anything to do with Java, the JVM, programming, or
SeaJUG?

Post by Jason Osgood

Post by Jim McBeath
I wonder if you could use a small 4K TV. Resolution 3940 x 2160.

You remind me that people are expecting Apple to have a new 4K offering
when the new Mac Pro ships.
I hate waiting.

[George Smith]

As some one drooling over having more pixels than my 3 1920x1200, the
caveat w/ the 4K screens is that NONE of the current Apple (not counting
the coming new Mac Pro) will drive 4K resolution. The hardware will, but
currently the software won't!

George

Post by dev danke
Does this post have anything to do with Java, the JVM, programming, or
SeaJUG?

Post by Jason Osgood

Post by Jim McBeath
I wonder if you could use a small 4K TV. Resolution 3940 x 2160.

You remind me that people are expecting Apple to have a new 4K offering
when the new Mac Pro ships.
I hate waiting.

[Daniel Kirkdorffer]

Well, that's what you get from Apple fan boys! ;^)

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Post by Jim McBeath
I wonder if you could use a small 4K TV. Resolution 3940 x 2160.

You remind me that people are expecting Apple to have a new 4K offering when
the new Mac Pro ships.

I hate waiting.

[Eric Jain]

Does this post have anything to do with Java, the JVM, programming, or SeaJUG?

Given how verbose Java is, a Retina screen is the only way to fit a
meaningful amount of code into one screen.
--
Eric Jain
zenobase.com -- What do you want to track today?


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[Jason Osgood]

Hi Dev.

Does this post have anything to do with Java, the JVM, programming, or SeaJUG?

I apologize for my apology.

The pinnacle of human achievement in general, and UX in particular, is to make the tool invisible, an extension of ourselves. Much like how Marshall McLuhan relates how the race car becomes an extension of a driver’s awareness.

With Retina, I don’t notice the screen. It’s invisible.

I believe that lessens my cognitive burden. As well as made me a more productive programmer.


Cheers, Jason

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