- Os X Lion Makes Progress Towards Retina Displays For Mac
- Os X Lion Makes Progress Towards Retina Displays For Mac Pro
Figure 1.5 An iPad 2 Photo courtesy of Apple Merging of Mac and iPad Following. When OS X updated to version 10.7, codename “Lion,” in 2011, the principal way to. Of Mac laptops and desktop displays to the ultra high resolution Retina display that. Apple is obviously moving toward combining OS X with iOS in all its.
- The latest developer release of Apple’s operating system OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion indicated that some Mac computers will upgraded with Retina Displays. A Retina Display on a Mac would put.
- The good parts of iOS had been fed back into OS X. Which makes sense, since millions more people have used iOS devices than Mac OS X ones; but the Mac OS X market is gaining new users every.
Since the launch of the MacBook Pro with Retina display in June, Microsoft had announced full compatibility of Office for Mac 2011 with Mountain Lion, but had neither confirmed, nor denied the possibility of a future update to the suite to fully support the Retina display. Up until now, Outlook 2011 was the only app that had support for the Retina display. Well today, Microsoft has released an update to Office for Mac 2011 (14.2.4) that finally adds support for the Retina display across the suite. Owners of the rMBP can now enjoy a crisp UI and sharp text and finally get back to being productive on their notebooks. In addition, the update features several bug fixes and improvements for Outlook 2011 as well.
Update: I just installed the update on my rMBP, and while the basic UI and text looks crisp, there are still several UI elements (such as previews), icons and images that have not been upscaled. But overall, this is still an order of magnitude improvement over the non-Retina version and finally makes Office for Mac 2011 usable on an rMBP.
The Office for Mac 2011 14.2.4 update should now be available via Microsoft AutoUpdate, or you can manually download it from. Thursday, September 20, 2012 - I would assume that Office, like Firefox, used a dedicated text-rendering engine rather than the OS default. If the app uses the OSX default text rendering engine, the transition should be seamless, but third party rendering might not be.
Os X Lion Makes Progress Towards Retina Displays For Mac
The three months of turnaround was probably to rewrite the engine (or redirect office to use the default one). Not too long a wait, at least compared to Adobe dragging its feet for years everytime there's an architectural change from Apple (Carbon to Cocoa, PPC to Intel, standard to Retina, etc).
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - Thing is, 95% of screens are low-res enough that the individual pixels are visible. So if you use vector graphics, they look like crap because of aliasing.
You can try to align the lines to fit on the grid properly, but then you lose the seamless downscaling since everything looks subtly different depending on resolution. If you've ever looked at Mac OS X font rendering and wondered why it's so blurry, blame Apple's obsession with keeping the vectors pure. Microsoft made something easier on the eyes with ClearType by forcing the fonts to align with the pixel grid ('hinting'). Apple's setup is OK on the retina screens though.
What is 'AirPlay Mirroring'? Which Macs are compatible with AirPlay Mirroring? Are there any 'hacks' or third-party apps to use AirPlay Mirroring on unsupported Macs? The AirPlay Mirroring feature - which only is provided with OS X Mountain Lion - makes it quick to wirelessly mirror the contents of a Mac display on an HDTV via a. This Mac, Apple TV, and HDTV combo makes it easy to for you to show a presentation, stream a movie, play a game, and more from a compatible Mac to a compatible television.
It's effectively automatic, even. Just connect your Mac and Apple TV to the same wireless network and if the Mac and Apple TV are both compatible, it will display an AirPlay Mirroring menu item in the menu bar toward the right side of the screen on your Mac.
General AirPlay Mirroring Compatible Macs Apple's own promotional copy notes that the following general Macs support AirPlay Mirroring:. (Mid-2011 or newer). (Mid-2011 or newer). (Mid-2011 or newer).
Os X Lion Makes Progress Towards Retina Displays For Mac Pro
(Early 2011 or newer) Identification Help If you're not sure which Mac - or Apple TV - you have and need help to it, look it up with EveryMac.com's. This feature makes it easy to lookup any of these Macs by the listed in software (select 'About This Mac' under the 'Apple' menu and click 'More Info'), its, and a variety of other methods. All AirPlay Mirroring Compatible Macs More precisely, the following Macs support AirPlay Mirroring when running OS X Mountain Lion:. Presumably, subsequently introduced Macs that are compatible with OS X Mountain Lion and are targeted toward the consumer market also will support AirPlay Mirroring. AirPlay Mirroring Technical Requirements As is clearly evident from the above, AirPlay Mirroring only is supported by a small number of systems released within a year or so from the date OS X Mountain Lion was introduced and no doubt there are those with 'older' Macs who also would like to use AirPlay Mirroring.
Although most readers are unlikely to think of a Mac purchased eighteen months or so before a new operating system was released as old (unless, perhaps, you purchased a to add to your vintage Mac collection), Apple ostensibly only supports AirPlay Mirroring on such a small list of systems because the feature uses Intel's Quick Sync technology provided by Intel HD Graphics 3000 and HD Graphics 4000 'integrated' graphics. Intel that Quick Sync Video 'accelerates decoding and encoding for a significantly faster conversion time, while also enabling the processor to complete other tasks, improving overall PC performance.'
Whether or not Apple could have supported older Macs is a subject for debate. Perhaps Apple found the performance of AirPlay Mirroring unacceptable on non-Quick Sync Video-capable Macs. Alternately, perhaps in pursuit of additional profit, the company simply views it as a highly desired feature and one that customers will be willing to purchase a new computer to obtain. Regardless, a quick visit to Apple's own support forums shows dozens, if not hundreds, of who bought Mountain Lion with the intention of using AirPlay Mirroring only to discover it wouldn't work with their Mac. AirPlay Mirroring 'Hack' Option As of the date published (see top), there aren't any hacks available to use AirPlay Mirroring on, but that do not support the feature. However, as those upset that their Macs don't support AirPlay Mirroring soon discovered, there is an excellent US$9.99 application called that makes it possible for any Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard,' OS X 10.7 'Lion,' or OS X 10.8 'Mountain Lion' to wirelessly mirror the Mac display on an HDTV.
Performance will vary depending on the Mac used and the task performed, but AirParrot has an assortment of settings that can be tweaked to find a quality/performance level that is acceptable, or at least usable, for your Mac. AirParrot also makes it possible to mirror a single application without the rest of the desktop and wirelessly use an HDTV as a second display, both of which can be particularly useful. Even if your Mac supports AirPlay Mirroring, you may find AirParrot's extra features to be worthwhile.
This demonstration video also may be of interest for the full feature set that AirParrot provides:.