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So not the same thing

Not overly impressed with the new Maps app, but obviously it's beta so I assume they'll sort out all of the little things.

The data seems to be horrifically out of date - it has Shrewsbury Town FC's home ground in the wrong place, despite the team moving around 5 years ago.

I also asked it to give me a route from Shrewsbury to London, and it referred to one of the motorways (the M1 I think) as Western Avenue, i.e. "drive 82.9 miles on Western Avenue."

The Passbook app included in the beta seems to do nothing except show a splash screen, but that might be because it's US-only or they have no UK partners yet or something.

The Do Not Disturb feature looks to be very useful indeed, as is the slide-up options to quick-reply to incoming calls.

Hmmmm.....

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/IPAD_ ... OLY-114501

This was released on the quiet! An admission by Apple that the smart cover wasn't actually that smart in the end?

Video too: http://tnw.to/d0Je

Can't see the video?

And that's one of the worst articles I've read in a long time

No, I mean, the file upload supports video as well as photos, answering your original question.

Aha! Ta.

completely hate the wordpress app on the iPad, so this might help...

Hey, Cras: https://developer.apple.com/programs/volume/

Yeah, I know. Three annoyances (and really, these are properly stupid. I don't understand the way Apple steadfastly refuse to do business with corporate customers in any sane way).
1) Credit card purchase only. Even two-man dev shops are capable of putting together an invoice for centralised payment, for goodness' sake.
2) What you get is a spreadsheet of redemption codes. Managing who's used what code would be a nightmare.
3) Single Apple ID for accessing the system, which their terms & conditions forbid sharing on. Guy who owns that ID goes on holiday for a month? You're not buying any apps for a month.

Hmmm. Interesting stuff, Cras. I may have to write that up.

I've written things about the new MacBook: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/13/the-cont ... a-display/

And iOS 6: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/12/ios-6-on ... -the-drea/

I'd be interested to know if there are any figures on how many of the upper end of the MBP market is bought by individuals with their own cash, and how many are bought via companies.

Your arguments make sense from a long term perspective, but for me i'll get the top of the range model every 2 years from work, so upgradability and ease of repair isn't high on my list. I wonder how much of the market is like that?

I take your point about repairability, but with no moving parts, shouldn't there be less likelihood of things going wrong?

I think if they'd offered the Retina display on the old-style chassis I'd have gone for that, but I reckon I'd have been disappointed if I'd gone for a non-Retina display.

Complete cunt's trick, that.

I'm not sure I'll need any more than 8GB RAM over the next three years or so, so it's not really an issue for me. They're basically aligning their laptops with the iOS devices though, it seems.

Typing this on a MBPwRD.

This screen really is very nice.

Beex in Safari (with 2880x1800 text rendering) and Chrome (which doesn't do HiDPI correctly, so is effectively rendering text at 1440x900):



In other words, on the left is a retina display, and on the right is (basically) every other computer ever.

The one on the right looks infinitely worse than it does on my screen, so there's something wrong with your comparison there. The fonts are fucked.

It's an off-the-shelf install of Chrome. Are you zooming it in too far? The screen is at 205 dpi, so you should view it at 25% on a normal screen to compensate.

WTF

In an Apple Store, myp. Calm down, dear. It's just a demo unit.

I think you're wrong.

On the top of this screenshot, Beex in Chrome (left) and Safari (right) on the MBPwRD. Zoomed at 1:1. On the bottom: Beex in Chrome on my iMac, zoomed at 2:1 (so it ends up the same size as the MBPwRD screenshot).



Looks to me like Chrome is the same in both cases? I have other screenshots of the same thing on tuaw.com, showing the same difference, so it's nothing specific to Beex.

The fonts aren't fucked -- it's just the retina display looks that good.

A similar comparison, but on TUAW.com: http://fscked.co.uk/post/25231445804/retina-safari

I hope the lid isn't glued shut when it arrives

Ah, now that looks much more like it. I do have to say though, I can now barely tell the difference between the two.

Also, why the shitting fuck don't macs have a delete key?!

Are you clicking through and viewing them full screen? If you look at the inline graphic within phpbb, then you see a HiDPI screen downsampled by your browser to normal DPI levels -- so it's unsurprising you won't see a difference there.


Mac users don't make mistakes.

Yup. Barely noticeable unless I zoom right into super-huge image. Stop trying to justify it to yourself

Uhhh, I'm not justifying anything; I'm not buying one. But if you don't view that image at 1:1 on your screen of course the difference will be obscured.

The only way to see a true representation of the difference is on a 200+ DPI screen, but you don't have one at home, do you?

Craster should zoom in and then move back until he has the equivalent of 200 DPI.

Science us, Doc!

Awesome.

That would be the superior keyboard.

Eh?

On the cutdown Air keyboard, I perhaps should have clarified.

That's because it's a cutdown keyboard.

Next you'll be telling me it doesn't have a number pad!

Yes. I've never seen a cutdown keyboard where delete was one of the removed keys, is all.

No delete key, no obvious # key. The first two things that make a new Mac user go WTF

And then go @But it's so pretty!@

I have a delete key.

Also, I like the combination for the # character. In America they call it the pound, yes? So it's alt + £ (3), or the alternative pound.

Still trying to work out how to delete things. Wait - it's OK! I'll just ..... right ..... click.

ITT: Different things are different.

Yes - that's what I said.

Function + backspace deletes text ahead of the caret. Command + backspace deletes files etc. I think. It’s all muscle memory now.

What about in windows, because, say, you bought the mac to run windows?

Malabar's shortcuts work fine in Windows too.

The Apple software driver pack makes Windows behave the same way for other stuff too, like trackpad gestures and right-click mechanism.

Yes. You were right, it is quite a neat implementation.

I was going to ask, Is the procedure for installing Apple drivers for The Windows partition quite easy then?