QHD type displays are a pretty new phenomenon in the PC laptop world. I don't think it's necessarily fair to expect apps that might be 2-3 years old to cater for today's hardware/software.
Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2014 8:41 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro Not unfair to expect at all. My laptop (Samsung Book 9 Plus) has 13" QHD (3200x1800) screen and a good number of the apps are all kinds of messed up due to not handling scaling right. If you don't scale its too tiny to see (seriously small fonts on 13" screen - lucky I got glasses!) or you scale stuff up 150 to 200%. Problem is SOME stuff gets scales (probably the System font usage) and other stuff isn't. It's a problem now because they are so new (QHD and Retina screens) but over time more developers will get them and in a few years it will all be sorted out. Cutting/bleeding edge and all that. Visual Studio handles it really nice due to WPF scaling awesomeness. I've seen some Installer dialogs so messed up I've had to drop the resolution just to be able to see the Next button. Non resizable dialogs with scaling are evil. The screens are so crisp and clear that you live with it. Just. :) On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Scott Barnes <scott.bar...@gmail.com<mailto:scott.bar...@gmail.com>> wrote: I run windows 8 on MacBook Pro daily and no issues .. I use osx for design tools and MacBook for dev work and seamless work. If you run parallels that is. If you run it native ie via boot camp again it runs normal as you would with a PC laptop The old days of issues have long gone and the only frustrating thing I at times notice is display settings for fonts etc aren't retina compliant at times for some apps .. But that's unfair given well nobody expects to run an app for PC under retina display On Thursday, March 20, 2014, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com<mailto:step...@perthprojects.com>> wrote: I had a Mac book pro some years back. 17" top of the line. $4300 worth (and the specs were not fantastic but the best one I could get...) I set it up to dual boot but I rarely booted into Mac OS. Was using VMWare's Fusion to run windows as a VM when I did boot it as a Mac. My wife poured (accident?) a hot cup of tea onto it, which ran down the lid and filled the perfectly watertight chassis via the hinge at the back. I don't think any leaked out at all. I didn't even cry a bit. It was my perfectly nonchalant reaction to this incident that told me quite loudly that I didn't give a toss about it. Apple were more than happy to repair it for about half of what it cost me (with no Guarantee it would ever be the same). There are some Apple fanbois out there that would have hurt themselves if this had happened to them, I'm sure. :) >From memory it wasn't very hard to dual boot it, or even install Windows >replacing the Mac OS. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:53 PM, ILT (O) <il.tho...@outlook.com<mailto:il.tho...@outlook.com>> wrote: Mac Pro - $10K? I don't know if it's true, but I heard some time back that some developers had bought MacBook Pro for its hardware, removed the Apple OS and installed Windows 7. Apocryphal? I know a 14yo who uses his mother's desktop Mac (one of those things that has everthing behind its screen) with Parallels - it performed well enough for the commercial Windows games he's allowed to have, but it took a bit of stuffing about with DVD drivers as I recall. December 2012. ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com<mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:30 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: OT: Windows on a Mac Pro Do you mean Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro - that heniously expensive cylinder they're releasing? Apple have a thing called BootCamp that dual boots into Windows, loads all the right drivers and so on. David Connors da...@connors.com<mailto:da...@connors.com> | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Bill McCarthy <bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au<mailto:bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au>> wrote: I remember someone on one of these lists was using it day to day. Just concerned about stability, display drivers etc. |-----Original Message----- |From: -- --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com
