From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 01:44:31 EDT
My goodness! AnimePhreak, you'll find that people will listen to your
opinions more if you learn to respect their opinions and be polite when you
disagree. Or if you're not going to be polite, at least get your facts
straight.
Since you don't believe me that my PowerBook G4 has an 1152x768 display,
will you believe Apple?
Please go here: http://www.apple.com/powerbook/
and scroll down to "Megawide Display". There's an illustration that says
"1280x854 pixel resolution." That must be what you think I've got.
Well, you're looking at Apple's new model that came out in April--two months
after I bought mine. Read the text to the left of the illustration: "23%
more workspace than the previous generation with 1152 x 768 resolution".
That's *my* G4. The previous generation. With an 1152x768 display that I do
run in its native resolution, thank you.
So the bad text quality I'm seeing is real. Would you like me to send you a
screen enlargement so you can see the problem for yourself?
Now about XP's anti-aliasing: What on earth makes you think you know what's
best for other people? Everyone has different priorities. One person may
need the fastest CPU. Another the biggest hard drive. Another the smallest,
lightest system. I need the best display.
I make my living by what goes into my ThinkPad's keyboard and what comes out
on its screen. For you, it may be mere eye candy, but for me, text quality
*is* usability. ClearType delivers the most readable text I've seen. With
ClearType, I can comfortably use smaller fonts than I could otherwise, so I
can get more text on the screen. Programmers *always* want more text on the
screen. :-)
Same screen, more text, more readable. Now *that's* usability.
Usability for me, that is. Not for you? That's fine. Your priorities are
different from mine.
So go in peace, dude, and try to see what you can learn from other people
instead of dissing them, OK?
-Mike
> From: AnimePhreak_at_aol.com
>
> First of all i want to respond to the message about Windows XP's
> antialiasing. You care more about eye candy than usability? Thats
> really very stupid. You sound like microsoft is paying you
> $50,000 a month for you to endorse their products by any means necessary.
>
> ...
>
> And I response to michael geary:
>
> If you had no idea that was the maximum resolution, i doubt you
> are running at its maximum resolution. On any LCD if it isnt
> being run at its maximum resolution it has to use either Bicubic
> or Bi/Tri-Linnear resizing distorting any text or image. Also you
> are still basing this on eye candy anyway.
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