Neowin Forums > Portrait Mode: Coming in Tiger

Bling3k12

Mar 24 2005, 16:48

Because linking to their site is hard, I'll just reproduce it here. Source is Hardmac.com.

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Thanks to Jean-Marc for this info which will for sure makes many readers happy.

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I am just coming back from Nexpo 2005 ( http://www.naa.org/newspapers05) and Apple had a small booth, but a huge impact! Indeed, commercial ad for iPod Shuffle were present everywhere in the city, and picture of the Shuffle were everywhere in the show room. Software developers like to attract potential consumers with some fashion present when you are attending a demo... and without competition the "hottest" present was for sure the iPod.

At Apple booth, Cinema displays were of course getting most of the attention.
Many users from publishing companies are dreaming of a rotating monitor that could be in a horizontal or vertical orientation depending if they work on a more portrait-, or landscape-type of document. It would be perfect for broadsheet editing and preview. Apple had of course a solution which was the main attraction: a rotating support from a third party company which could be adapted to Apple Cinema Display, and in the preview of Tiger, there is the option in the Cinema HD display menu to set the angle of your monitor.

Some professional users were waiting for years for such a device. It will not be necessary anymore to invest into a Radeon graphic card to enjoy rotating your display the way you want it.

Now, I don't know if this is built in through the developer of the swiveling arm for the Cinema Displays or if it's built into Tiger, but either way, this is the mount you'll probably want for your Cinema.

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Mx²

Mar 24 2005, 16:50

That is nice, very nice.

Corona

Mar 24 2005, 17:16

Cool!

Lare2

Mar 24 2005, 17:28

Really nice

sn00pie

Mar 24 2005, 17:36

Images don't work for me.

SerialStorm

Mar 24 2005, 17:38

The links and the photos are down

sn00pie

Mar 24 2005, 17:39

Crap, sorry for the double post.

Bling3k12

Mar 24 2005, 17:42

Updated with screenshots of the cached images I had in Firefox.

cswadner

Mar 24 2005, 17:45

awesome!

Vice

Mar 24 2005, 17:47

wow! that is sweet.

mpat1024

Mar 24 2005, 19:12

WOW! An excellent feature! Do you think that Apple are experimenting with Tablet PCs, or are they just doing it especially for the cinema display?

Devoto.

Mar 24 2005, 20:26

Woah, that's awesome!

Gowcra

Mar 24 2005, 20:30

BTallack

Mar 24 2005, 21:38

QUOTE(mpat1024 @ Mar 24 2005, 12:12)

WOW! An excellent feature! Do you think that Apple are experimenting with Tablet PCs, or are they just doing it especially for the cinema display?
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There is many monitors out there that already swivel. Mac OS X simply lacked the ability to make use of it. Most PC video cards will support rotated display resolutions.
Likely they're just doing it for the huge publishing crowd that uses OS X. It doesn't serve much purpose for anyone else really.

macman87

Mar 25 2005, 01:37

It would be useful and its likely that we see Steve Jobs mention this like PCs never had this feature and Apple invented it - but - does it only work with Apple's Cinema Displays? If it is only the Apple ones, that would suck.

JoGro123

Mar 25 2005, 01:42

QUOTE(Phillip @ Mar 24 2005, 19:37)

It would be useful and its likely that we see Steve Jobs mention this like PCs never had this feature and Apple invented it - but - does it only work with Apple's Cinema Displays? If it is only the Apple ones, that would suck.

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I think there are two things being introduced here.
1. A 3rd party product that allows the Apple Cinema Display to rotate 360 degrees.
2. A software update to Mac OS X (probably being introduced into Tiger) that will rotate your desktop.

As for number 2, this basically moves the rotation technology from graphics driver to the OS.

theyarecomingforyou

Mar 25 2005, 01:45

Looks really nice. I'm sure they tried it a while back with PC screens, but it was never popular.

macman87

Mar 25 2005, 01:47

QUOTE(JoGro123 @ Mar 25 2005, 11:42)

I think there are two things being introduced here.
1. A 3rd party product that allows the Apple Cinema Display to rotate 360 degrees.
2. A software update to Mac OS X (probably being introduced into Tiger) that will rotate your desktop.

As for number 2, this basically moves the rotation technology from graphics driver to the OS.
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Cheers for that, kinda go confused reading the quotes

Elliott

Mar 25 2005, 01:48

QUOTE(Phillip @ Mar 24 2005, 20:37)

It would be useful and its likely that we see Steve Jobs mention this like PCs never had this feature and Apple invented it - but - does it only work with Apple's Cinema Displays? If it is only the Apple ones, that would suck.

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No, Steve Jobs probably won't say it, but I don't think Windows has actually had a built-in screen rotation utility anyway. It's always been up to the graphics driver. Tiger is putting this into the OS, so yes, this is a step forward.

Freakz

Mar 25 2005, 14:18

fantastical!

Pilsbury

Mar 27 2005, 20:26

Windows doesn't have it built in either, it's a function of the video driver.
Screen rotation is supported through ATI's drivers on OSX currently. - http://www2.ati.com/drivers/macosx-radeon-...25_read_me.html

The Jorge

Mar 27 2005, 20:33

Awesome.

Wish I had a Mac though...

Jonathan Amend

Mar 27 2005, 20:34

QUOTE(jagedEdge @ Mar 24 2005, 20:48)

No, Steve Jobs probably won't say it, but I don't think Windows has actually had a built-in screen rotation utility anyway. It's always been up to the graphics driver. Tiger is putting this into the OS, so yes, this is a step forward.
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It doesn't need one anyways. On PCs, both the Radeon and Geforce drivers have rotation support.

Vice

Mar 27 2005, 20:36

QUOTE(Cephas @ Mar 27 2005, 20:34)

It doesn't need one anyways. On PCs, both the Radeon and Geforce drivers have rotation support.
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Integrated Graphics.

Not everyone has a graphics card per-say.

Jonathan Amend

Mar 27 2005, 20:48

QUOTE(WinMacLin @ Mar 27 2005, 15:36)

Integrated Graphics.

Not everyone has a graphics card per-say.
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Oh right, forgot about that. Intel integrated graphics have it too.

Vice

Mar 27 2005, 21:01

Sis integrated graphics do not. and if there is 1 manufacturer who does not it counts.

aristotle-dude

Mar 27 2005, 21:33

It is nice to see this coming back to the mac. I remember when there were several mfgs of portrait monitors for the mac back in the 90's.

Pilsbury

Mar 28 2005, 08:26

Be nice to have it autosense the rotation like some of the older displays. (And some current ones)