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On my MBPs, too. Apple's apparently wrote time-tested behaviors out of System Preferences | TrackPad. But Accessibility got back tap and drag. Same for scrolling with inertia. Why hide them there? Question: who wants three- and four-finger any…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil You don't really seem to get it, either. Look, come on, this isn't hard to grasp: text on the retina MacBook Pro is going to look IDENTICAL to the other MacBook Pro, as it will appear…
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Tallest Skil wrote: Originally Posted by cyberoid Higher resolution without independent font control simply means more difficulty reading ever-smaller type. Good thing that isn't the case, then. It's just like on the iPhon…
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Higher resolution without independent font control simply means more difficulty reading ever-smaller type. Nice pictures, but a machine increasingly difficult to work with in non-visual terms. As for Mountain Lion -- let's just say its…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil HiDPI mode? It's already in OS X, so I'd imagine so. Stopped reading right there. Come off it. 1. How does one invoke HiDPI? I need to see this for myself. No Air owner I know has detected a w…
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I'm all for the new MacBook Pros, having now owned simultaneously a Pro and and Air and wished for the longest time I could combine their features. Hooray that Apple is doing so. My only concerns are two: 1. Will Apple's new machines permit use…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sennen I don't share your pessimism. From Gruber today, note the bold: Apple has been more than happy to disrupt it's own products over the past 10 years - the laptop becoming dominant over the desktop, the iPhone r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by myapplelove @Tallest Skill, Some points well taken, no time to get back to you in more detail though, at some points we 'll agree to disagree. Had apple given me resolution independence and a way to turn off what I fin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Right, instead of my usual mockery of the fake implications of something like this, I'm going to pose a hypothetical. Yeah, they're removing Mac from the name. Because the OS doesn't just apply to Macs …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Enlighten us, what 'went down' with Lion? You are trolling, really. Goodbye! Don't let the code byte you where the wall should indite you! Start reading here for firsthand accounts of the Lion f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I agree that you should start looking elsewhere. Thanks for the confirmation.
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Quote: Originally Posted by IanRid So that's a load of features I don't need. But is it going to work faster and more reliably? Right. Features that further degrade the Mac experience, that blend it into an "Apple experience" mush, are featur…
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"Incredibly successful release of Lion"? There's a 150-page "discussion" on the Apple Forum, one of several such threads, that indicate the release was anything but successful. Sure, if you blatanltly misrepresent a weak product, people are going …
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Quote: Originally Posted by cameronj Whose standard was decreased? These workers are living lives far better than they were before they applied for and received these jobs, as are their families. At some point they will be undercut by the next …
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Absurd reasoning. Instead of going from bad to awful, they could have gone from bad to good. Is that too difficult to comprehend?
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Argue though we may about Apple's overseas production -- which I consider scandalous, one more reason to look elsewhere (besides increasingly dumbed down, lowest-common-denominator products) -- no one can deny that an electronic consumable is just m…