Being the recent purchaser of a 24" iMac, I hope that resolution independence will be a sure thing in the next OS. If not, I may have to have my eye balls extracted and replaced with CCD imagers.
Something tells me that the new iMac size, the wall mountable option, the 512 icon size stuff that came out awhile back, and whatever Tuesday has to offer are all signs that point to yes.
After using Maya on PCs at school at 1600x1200, going home and attempting to use Maya on my 1280x854 powerbook g4 gets mighty claustrophobic. I'm all for larger, and higher res, screens. Bring it on!
Simply put rez independence or even semi independence(which apple might take) is the idea that pixel density does not equal picture size.
Thus going into 1920 is not going to screw up your internet viewing days.
The only saving point for current systems are that people only ramp up their resolutions on bigger screens, thus mantaining size ratio. Of course this gives the inverse "headache" where which monitor size that you try to target?
Basically it's the pdf-ish way to computers. Everything is locked to a standard we would(apple/developers) agree apon.
Apple might do semi rez independence in which they would only scale to a certain min and max. Like using 10meg jpegs and just zooming in and out. (assuming no one is going to go 200% on it)
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The size of the screen has nothing to do with resolution independence. It's all about the DPI.
Regardless, moving from my 20" iMac G5 to my wifes 23" cinema, I am freekn straining my eyeballs to read the screen.
Resolution independence is 99% a sure thing in Leopard. There have been many, many clues.
Yes there have, and the 24" iMac isn't one of them. A bump to 1920x1200 screens on the 20" iMac and the 17" MBP would have been, however.
Simply put rez independence or even semi independence(which apple might take) is the idea that pixel density does not equal picture size.
Thus going into 1920 is not going to screw up your internet viewing days.
The only saving point for current systems are that people only ramp up their resolutions on bigger screens, thus mantaining size ratio. Of course this gives the inverse "headache" where which monitor size that you try to target?
Basically it's the pdf-ish way to computers. Everything is locked to a standard we would(apple/developers) agree apon.
Apple might do semi rez independence in which they would only scale to a certain min and max. Like using 10meg jpegs and just zooming in and out. (assuming no one is going to go 200% on it)