Posted on 10/17/2008 1:33:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Nice lookin’. But I really just stopped in to read the idiotic anti-Apple rants, because I need a good laugh.
Nice capsule review, but the author is incorrect on one point. If you check Precision Machine Design by MIT’s Alex Slocum, you’ll find aluminum extolled for its material stability.
I certainly never expected to be confronted by someone with such a major stake in glossy screens!
I will tell you that it is a FACT that LCD screens were made mate for exactly the reason I gave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_Displays
Beyond all that, the reason why glossy screens seem to have become popular, especially with notebooks, is that they offer better outdoor readability.
Moreover, just for the record, my post wasn’t a complaint so much as it was an explanation for those who care to increase their understanding of the facts.
I don’t own a glossy screen any more, computer monitor or television, so I have nothing to complain about.
Perhaps if I buy one of the new Mac laptops, I will buy one of the films you suggest. Thanks.
Spoken like a wannabe no-nothing. Check the photography websites. The derision is universal. A non glare film would be a stop-gap measure at best.
Go buy a glossy high-intensity screen machine. Enjoy our eye strain and headaches.
I’m trying to think of any other manufacturer of anything in the world that does this and all I can think of is maybe a high-end Swiss watch maker like Patek Philippe.
But at the same time, when Apple decides you don't need a feature, come hell or high water, you will NOT get it!
I've just been issued an iPhone 3G from work, and I'm somewhat hard of hearing. I simply can not hear the email received alert on the phone when I'm more than about 2 feet from the phone. That's the main thing I use it for when I'm out of the office. And you simply can NOT change that tone without "Jail Breaking" the phone - and since it's not mine, but my companies, if I do Jail Break or otherwise try to hack the phone (which is something I'd sort of like to try), it's grounds for termination.
I've contacted Apple, and requested (practically begging) this feature. I've never seen a data phone that wouldn't allow you to assign different tones to different alerts!
Mark
Huh? People HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING THE ENTIRE TIME! Just ask anyone who sells TVs! But people have just gotten used to the idea that they don't have any choice other than to reposition the TV or other furniture, and make sure you draw the blinds!
Mark
Yes, there’s such universal backlash that manufacturers have not taken advantage by offering matte TVs, but have offered matte computer screens for years. Okay.
That is a down side to Apple sometimes. That and their legal department.
What do you think of the new MB, Swordmaker? I want one.
He is a pre eminent post modern industrial designer. Up there with all the dead guys from Bel Geddes.
Ive has been known to be a big fan of the Braun industrial designs of their electrical components from the 1960’s, and the Eames era Kartell plastic designs of the mod 70’s. This is what the white iBook was all about.
The industrial design of the first modern Powerbook, Ive's Titanium Powerbook G4, is an ode to forties modern. He eschewed this on the latter model “Aluminum” Powerbooks with their aluminum colored keyboards; extended this through the first generations of Mac Book Pros.
But he brought back that forties look with the Mac Book Air and now the newest generation of MacBooks and Mac Book Pros.
I think he is a genius and I mentioned to some art people I know that he deserves a major show of his work. Function/form = modernism. He is really a great designer. He would make all the early 20th Century designers like Mies/Corbusier/Bruer — even Charles Eames — proud.
The specs and pictures look good... but I have yet to actually see one and try it out. I may go to the Apple Store in Sacramento this week and take one for a test spin...
Sounds like you know your design. Yes, Ive is a genius. But that is mixed with hard work, as he tends to make hundreds of design variations before arriving at the final one. It used to be clay and such, I’ll bet he had a CNC machine all to himself to play with variations on the new MacBook/Pro case.
In the MacBooks, you're right. But with the MacBook Pros, one still had to slide a button to open them.
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