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

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fuzu — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:54:00 GMT

more like "OMG! 4pple iz TEH SEX!"

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Daniel Jin — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:12:00 GMT

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.

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a_fag — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:45:00 GMT

No you didn't, they were just announced this week.

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Aaron A. Anderson — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:29:00 GMT

They have dual DVI inputs, does that still mean they're Mac only?

Screen Resolution - 100dpi is Not Enough

IanG on Tap — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:58:00 GMT

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Ryan — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:40:00 GMT

Only the 30" required the DDL DVI (which is part of the DVI standard, there is nothing precluding nVidia from taking their current mac-only 6800 DDL card and releasing it for PCs as well). All of the other displays only require a single DVI -- they will work out of the box with PCs and Macs!

Buy away! ;-)

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Ryan — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:43:00 GMT

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.

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Ryan — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:47:00 GMT

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!

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

Cyrus Najmabadi — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 02:16:00 GMT

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.

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Ian Griffiths — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:59:00 GMT

In theory, yes Avalon should offer a solution to this.

Then again, in theory it should be possible with OS X too, given that Quartz 2D is scalable...

The real issue is whether people actually use vectors in practice in their apps. Graphics designers are used to using bitmaps for all the widgets in applications today - this is why I mentioned the cultural aspects of the problem - Microsoft need to bring application developers with them here if scalability is going to work out in practice. (Which is also what Apple would need to do with their ISVs to support high dpi displays.)

I'm hopeful though. Microsoft seem to be pusing high-dpi support as a feature in Avalon, which is encouraging!

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Cyrus Najmabadi — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:02:00 GMT

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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