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OMG! 4pple iz TEH HUGE! + (P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-PowerBooks!!)

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I just had a disturbing realization while talking to Mikey.  I was trying to convince him to buy me one of the new apple 30inch monitors, and he fine with that idea as long as I bought him one in return.  During the conversation about how sexy these things were (size does matter!), i noted that the new flatscreen was equivalent in size to 4 of our PowerBooks' screens put together.  I mocked up an image to see what that was like and it blew my mind:

 

4 powerbooks vs. 30inchscreen

It really gives you a sense of how frigging huge these things are.  I'm hoping they'll be available at Fry's soon just so I can bask in their loving glow.

PS: Have you see how small the apple menu bar is at the top of that screen.  I'm hoping Tiger will have some facility for scaling up the UI so that you will actually be able to read and work with the regular screen widgets.  I'm guessing that the dock is scaled to the max in order to even get it to that level of usability.

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  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
    saw one in action when I went to CompUSA a while back. played around with it for 20 minutes. widescreen rulez!!! too bad I'm not a mac person, is there one for pc? wish I can afford something like this.
  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
    No you didn't, they were just announced this week.
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
    They have dual DVI inputs, does that still mean they're Mac only?
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
    Just wait until you see them in person... I'm sitting across the hall from them at WWDC and, when they're displaying a static picture, they look fake. In fact, I thought the displays at WWDC were mock-ups with printed pictures rather than working monitors until I saw the picture I was staring out fade transition to another. My jaw hit the floor. Bright, 100ppi, huge and bright.
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
    Oh, and wait until you see two 30" displays side-by-side. ;-) A couple of guys from Weta Digital stopped by and started drooling drooling over the setup. Almost 5' diagonal feet of desktop real estate.

    Last comment, I swear!
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
    IanG: Nice article!! I enjoyed reading it. From the Avalon specs so far it certianly seems that all UI elements will be done with vectors not bitmaps, so scaling shouldn't be a problem.
  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2004
    Ian: Yup. I defintely think that OSX could do this, I'm just seeing no push in that direction . Of course, by the time LH ships apple might have gotten everyone onto this, which would be awesome.

    I am very encouraged by the fact that right now all the avalon information seems to be centered around the idea that things should be vector based and you should only go down to bitmaps for things you can't represent with vectors.

    I'm confident that MS will work with ISVs like Adobe so that the tools that people are using for graphics design today will produce the right output to successfully leveral avalon technologies.
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    June 13, 2009
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