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On 11/14/2017 7:43 PM, nospam wrote:
snip peter made the ludicrous and unfounded claim that retina displays have issues with the shadows. that's complete nonsense, entirely fabricated by him solely to argue. Go live in your dream world. I was ready to put down some serious money for it, but decided not to, for the reason stated. -- PeterN |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: peter made the ludicrous and unfounded claim that retina displays have issues with the shadows. that's complete nonsense, entirely fabricated by him solely to argue. Go live in your dream world. I was ready to put down some serious money for it, but decided not to, for the reason stated. your loss, because 'the reason stated' has no basis in reality. |
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:43:39 -0500, nospam
wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: And when using a gloss monitor, although the highlights and mid range colors are great, it is very difficult to see gradations of color in the shadow to dark areas. complete nonsense. Most people may not care, but I do. I know the gloss on Apple branded monitors is not as high as it used to be, but I prefer to work on a matte surfaced monitor. only because you've used ****ty glossy displays. Gee, they were all Apple branded products. so what? nobody said everything apple makes is perfect. All they do is deny that the Apple product under discussion has any faults. 'They' being you. bull****. i never said anything remotely close to that. peter made the ludicrous and unfounded claim that retina displays have issues with the shadows. that's complete nonsense, entirely fabricated by him solely to argue. Thank you for being so prompt with an example. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 11/15/2017 2:41 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:43:39 -0500, nospam wrote: snip peter made the ludicrous and unfounded claim that retina displays have issues with the shadows. that's complete nonsense, entirely fabricated by him solely to argue. Thank you for being so prompt with an example. The in context and clear meaning of my statement is that glossy monitors have issues displaying color gradations in the dark and shadow areas. My conclusion was drawn after I had conversations with users, and manufacturers representatives, including Apple. -- PeterN |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: The in context and clear meaning of my statement is that glossy monitors have issues displaying color gradations in the dark and shadow areas. they don't, and retina displays are not glossy anyway. My conclusion was drawn after I had conversations with users, and manufacturers representatives, including Apple. your conclusion is wrong and your refusal to learn is even worse. |
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On 11/15/2017 11:53 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN wrote: The in context and clear meaning of my statement is that glossy monitors have issues displaying color gradations in the dark and shadow areas. they don't, and retina displays are not glossy anyway. My conclusion was drawn after I had conversations with users, and manufacturers representatives, including Apple. your conclusion is wrong and your refusal to learn is even worse. That's your problem. What I have is working well. -- PeterN |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: The in context and clear meaning of my statement is that glossy monitors have issues displaying color gradations in the dark and shadow areas. they don't, and retina displays are not glossy anyway. My conclusion was drawn after I had conversations with users, and manufacturers representatives, including Apple. your conclusion is wrong and your refusal to learn is even worse. That's your problem. no it isn't. What I have is working well. nobody said it didn't work well. the point is that there are other options, potentially much better options, but you blindly dismiss them without even evaluating them. |
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On Thursday, November 9, 2017 at 3:59:50 PM UTC-5, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2017-11-09 09:03, nospam wrote: Alan Browne wrote: meanwhile, the rest of the world wants to do actual work, not open up their computer and swap parts all day long. The usual asshat reply from nospam. People don't "swap parts all day long". They do it when needed from time to time. actually, they don't. the vast majority of users have someone else repair their computer, just as they do with their cars, tvs and other products. A nonsense reply of convenience. Hidden within the angst are a couple of fair & reasonable points, namely that hardware swaps aren't generally all that frequent of an occurrence for many people, and that the decision to DIY versus getting someone else to do it is also an option to consider. As to just how often -vs- infrequent, that's a YMMV. So too is whatever the statistical split is between DIY'ers and delegators. Having it so a user can maintain and repair it doesn't prevent people from getting it repaired elsewhere. Probably not, but making something harder will probably serve to discourage DIY'ers (and the potential revenue stream for repairmen) When a drive is failing, failed or not large enough it is trivial to remove and replace. About 10 minutes with most desktops. only if someone has the skills and tools. A couple screwdrivers. The skills are fairly low end and there a gazillion sites showing how to do it elsewise. IOW another nonsense reply of convenience from you. In a generic old school desktop, yes, it usually is pretty trivial. However, well over half of PCs these days are laptops, and these quickly become more involved/complex. while readers of usenet might, the general public is not going to open up a computer to swap a hard drive. Perhaps. But why not make it easier for those who will. Indeed make it easier for the "pros" (including Apple) who do it? Again and again your replies are nonsense convenience reasons. FWIW, I agree with the interest in 'design for maintainability', but unfortunately, this isn't really a major objective for any PC OEMs today: the generic WinTel boxes happen to be pretty easy, but that's really more by accident than by plan. Apple OTOH does have 'harder' designs (since the cheesegrater Mac Pro), supposedly due to their design aesthetic to want to be thin at all costs, etc. On a current iMac it can easily take an hour or more. Tedious. And no reason to make it so difficult other than the Apple aesthetic. the reason is that opening a computer is rarely done, if ever, and optimizing for that scenario stupid. Not at all. Many things are designed for maintainability and capability growth w/o making them more expensive. It's your usual nonsense reply of convenience. Things & times change. I can't even recall the last time that I opened up one of my cellphones to upgrade its RAM. g In any case, the days of DIY incremental upgrades because of rapid PC technology change ... are over. As such, the "hardware upgrade temptation" paradigm has shifted from ~9 months out to 2-3 years. FWIW, I've only done brain surgery on an iMac once ... it was an example of where the owner didn't want to do it, so he asked me. The exercise took longer than dropping a 3.5" into a tower, but then again, a) I also took the time to verify that the owner did indeed correctly clone the original drive (and have a data backup) before I opened the case; b) I'd never opened an iMac before, so I went slowly & deliberately, and following the step-by-step instructions; c) I also upgraded the RAM while I was replacing the 2.5" HDD with an SSD; d) I also had to prepare & clear the workspace, unpack the box of replacement parts, verify inventory, etc. All in all, I'd say that it took me 3-4 hours from "okay here's the pile of stuff" to "all done & all cleaned up"...but that also included a lunch break, etc. it makes a lot more sense to optimize a computer for every day use, versus something that *might* happen. some cars have the battery in the wheel well, requiring a wheel to be removed just to swap the battery. since car batteries usually last 5-10 years, that's a very good design decision. No, it's a horrible decision. Batteries here rarely last 5 years due to the harsh winters. Having to remove a wheel to even examine a battery for its condition is absolute stupidity. I see why you admire it. Checking battery condition? Is this still the 1970s or something? Batteries have been pretty much maintenance free for a couple of decades now. .....oh, and except for extreme (nee Arctic level) cold, it is usually heat and NVH that tends to kill off batteries. For example, I'm personally in US Climatic Zone 5 and while I normally expect 5+ years life, it does depend: I replaced one battery this summer (in a low mileage 'collector') which when we checked the service records turned out to be 2 weeks short of 14 years old...and FYI, for all but 3 of those years, this particular vehicle used to be stored outside in the winter (it only started to be garaged in 2014, when we learned that it had become a 'collectible' worth more today than when new). -hh |
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On 11/15/2017 12:13 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN wrote: The in context and clear meaning of my statement is that glossy monitors have issues displaying color gradations in the dark and shadow areas. they don't, and retina displays are not glossy anyway. My conclusion was drawn after I had conversations with users, and manufacturers representatives, including Apple. your conclusion is wrong and your refusal to learn is even worse. That's your problem. no it isn't. What I have is working well. nobody said it didn't work well. the point is that there are other options, potentially much better options, but you blindly dismiss them without even evaluating them. Once again you, by your own words, prove that you are only look for an argument, not to have a reasonable discussion. I evaluated a lot of monitors, including some branded by Apple, before I made my decision. I feel no compulsion to discuss this further. -- PeterN |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: The in context and clear meaning of my statement is that glossy monitors have issues displaying color gradations in the dark and shadow areas. they don't, and retina displays are not glossy anyway. My conclusion was drawn after I had conversations with users, and manufacturers representatives, including Apple. your conclusion is wrong and your refusal to learn is even worse. That's your problem. no it isn't. What I have is working well. nobody said it didn't work well. the point is that there are other options, potentially much better options, but you blindly dismiss them without even evaluating them. Once again you, by your own words, prove that you are only look for an argument, not to have a reasonable discussion. once again, you're wrong. I evaluated a lot of monitors, including some branded by Apple, before I made my decision. I feel no compulsion to discuss this further. you did so long before there were retina displays and also received bad advice. your conclusion is therefore not valid. |
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