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Welcome to another year of Apple goodness. They've so far announced the a new MacBook Pro with features such as the Retina Display, over 5000 pixels. As well as that, it now includes USB 3.0, but instead of other laptops which feature both USB 2 and USB 3 slots, it will be a combined slot that is compatible.

And as I speak they've brought out The Stig to test AirPlay...

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Mountain Lion will be $19.99 (£12.88)

Updates on iOS 6 coming up. Presentation on iOS 6 just starting.

I don't think I understood one word of that.

Thought it was written in Barcrudese at first.

Apart from West Wiltshire District Council, what on earth does the heading mean?

Nick Harvey wrote:I don't think I understood one word of that.

Thought it was written in Barcrudese at first.

Apart from West Wiltshire District Council, what on earth does the heading mean?

Sorry.

WWDC stands for 'Worldwide Developers Conference'. Each year, the computer company Apple, holds this conference in San Franciso, announcing amongst other things, new products. MacBook Pro is the company's high-end notebook PC. USB 3 is a new version of USB, the standard port on computers nowadays for things like keyboards and mice.

Mountain Lion is the name of Apple's latest computer operating system. iOS 6 is the name of Apple's latest mobile OS for devices like iPhone and iPad.

Retina Display is a kind of display which displays more pixels so that the PPI is more than the human eye can handle, so you cannot define the pixels one by one with the naked eye.

Hmm, it's an interesting announcement. They've just announced Maps, and they've ditched Google on this, and have done their own mapping solution. It looks very nice, but Apple are separating themselves from Google here.

They're bringing Siri to the new iPad, Facebook integration, and enhancements to various apps, which really do look quite good.

Oh, and no more 'One more thing', although I suppose that was Jobs' signature thing.

Beatiful engineering. The design of the fan system amazes me:

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/#macbookpro

Wow that MacBook looks pretty amazing.

I might get one.

The Retina MacBook Pro is getting excellent reviews. I'm on the tip of ordering one.

I'm still a bit undecided. While the display in the new iPad was the tipping point for me to find it compelling, that's partly because as a closed ecosystem (apart from those pesky interwebs) you could rely on apps being updated to render natively.

I'd have thought this display would introduce all sorts of issues, particularly for screen designers, where the on-screen ppi bears no relation to the majority of displays they'll be targeting (I'm happy to be told I'm wrong on this point!). Similarly, there's a trend emerging for people to bake two levels of assets in their CSS ("budgo" and "retina") to avoid upscaling images, which may have a better end result but is re-introducing even more proprietary shims into web design ('lte IE 7' anyone?)

Maybe I'm just weird. It does look very shmexy but I spend most of my time in vim so maybe it's all just wasted on me...

EDIT: An example of my concern. This seems like a pretty mad burden to put on developers to support (and I'm not even talking about producing higher resolution assets, which is a bit of a given). It's hard to tell whether that actually looks like ass on the display though. Scaling it to 50% largely undoes the scaling artefacts but is still notably soft compared to a 'native' app.

I decided to make my own Retina display by moving my monitor to the other side of the room.

I preferred it how it was.

Shipping in 3 - 4 weeks, though...

I am very tempted, and it'd be a major step up from what I'm running now.

The Register have made the point that it is being marketed as something for editing video on yet the removal of the ethernet port and preposterous pricing of the larger SSDs (for there can be no massive HDDs in such a pretty machine) mean it is useless for this task without a pile of dongles and external drives.