[kcmac]

The pages for iLife, iWork, etc. are really awesome. Layout, color, et al. It's all good.

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

http://www.apple.com/iwork/

[rickey939]

I agree, I dig it.

[DarwinX]

Originally Posted by kcmac

The pages for iLife, iWork, etc. are really awesome. Layout, color, et al. It's all good.

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

http://www.apple.com/iwork/

I like the sites to a point but I'm not sure what is with all these QuickTime movies everywhere.

[f1000]

Originally Posted by kcmac

The pages for iLife, iWork, etc. are really awesome. Layout, color, et al. It's all good.

Agreed. That's some slick graphic design.

[Atomic Rooster]

I think those tabs are bit dated. What four years now?

Is this their Intel sticker?

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster

I think those tabs are bit dated. What four years now?

Personally, I like those tabs better then the current OS X (Panther-style) ones. They look like tabs.


I like the Apple site updates. My chief criticism is that the site's too wide - I like to keep my Safari windows about 920 pixels wide, and the new Apple site needs closer to 1024 to be comfortable. Ironically, it will tend to work better for PC users who are more likely to have their Web browser maximized.

[Krypton]

Originally Posted by DarwinX

I like the sites to a point but I'm not sure what is with all these QuickTime movies everywhere.

Not exactly friendly to anyone using dialup.

[ambush]

if it is, it's pretty ugly compared to the G5 proc. graphics

[wdlove]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster

I think those tabs are bit dated. What four years now?

Is this their Intel sticker?

Looks very nice to me. Much beter than the old look.

[wdlove]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster

I think those tabs are bit dated. What four years now?

Is this their Intel sticker?

Looks very nice to me. Much better than the old look.

[Agasthya]

apple.com is now wider than I like to keep my browser.

[MaxPower2k3]

yeah, safari defaults to 800px wide, which used to be just fine for apple.com, but now it's too small. not a huge fan of that, although it looks nice.

[ort888]

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/wireless.html

There's a glaring typo on this page. Under "Travel unfettered."

[Leia's Left Bun]

Originally Posted by Agasthya

apple.com is now wider than I like to keep my browser.

I noticed they first did this for the Aperture section. Much wider than the rest of the site, this was ok because the people looking at that section are pro users with high rez monitors anyway.

Don't k now if it is such a good idea for the home page and now the tabs look really dated.

[kcmac]

Originally Posted by Krypton

Not exactly friendly to anyone using dialup.

That pretty much is the web in general...dialup...Hah.

[Ratm]

The tabs at the top need to go. Two design styles clashing with the dark side overtaking the light... bleh

[Andy8]

Originally Posted by ort888

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/wireless.html

There's a glaring typo on this page. Under "Travel unfettered."

Hndreds

[TheoCryst]

Originally Posted by ort888

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/wireless.html

There's a glaring typo on this page. Under "Travel unfettered."

For some reason, seeing typos on an otherwise-professional website makes me smile a bit. Reminds me that even major corporations like Apple are run by humans. And humans make mistakes... hndreds of mistakes.

Yeah, agreed about the tabs. They are just outdated and need to be removed ASAP. It's just so... 10.1.

[TheoCryst]

double-postinated

[Albert Pujols]

the MacBook page is white on black... which I cannot read at all because the font is way too small/thin. I'm using Firefox, maybe something isn't working right, but the page is horrible.

[Big Mac]

Yeah, definitely way too wide.

[JustAnOl'Broad]

Originally Posted by Krypton

Not exactly friendly to anyone using dialup.

Hellapainful.
Why can't they have a portion of it that's not QTfor those of us on dial-up?

[Krypton]

Originally Posted by JustAnOl'Broad

Hellapainful.
Why can't they have a portion of it that's not QTfor those of us on dial-up?

I'm not on dial-up, but those QT movies take long enough to load on broadband!

[willed]

Originally Posted by Krypton

I'm not on dial-up, but those QT movies take long enough to load on broadband!

There are other considerations - many PCs, especially in corporate environments, don't have QT. Also, Quicktime now runs terribly on older Macs where it used to be fine.

[m a d r a]

pah! - i thought white and coloured text on black backgrounds went out of fashion about a decade ago.

cue a million fansites to switch back to 'white on black' text from 'black on white'!

[Oisín]

The new pages sure look a lot better than many of the old ones. Still, I’d prefer them to be white-on-black, rather than the other way around.

And yes, the tabs desperately need to go. They were ugly four years ago, and they’re ugly now. One can only hope that Apple will seize the opportunity of the Intel switch to do a complete redesign—settling, preferably, on one design, rather than three or four different designs clashing with each other.


As for the typo: it happens. Even on major corporation websites. Even in published books that have been proofread dozens of times. A typo or two will nearly always slip through. As long as it’s limited to one or two typos, it doesn’t bother me; it’s only when typos start showing up left, right, and centre that I begin to reconsider the professionalism of the corporation.

Edit: Wtf? I passed 3,000 posts? Holy shit, I thought I was somewhere around 2,000.

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by ort888

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/wireless.html

There's a glaring typo on this page. Under "Travel unfettered."

And on this page: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/design.html

WTF is a "lough"?

[ort888]

Wow, the typo is still on there. I would have thought it would be fixed by now.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Tesseract

And on this page: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/design.html

WTF is a "lough"?

An Irish lake.

Was that supposed to be ‘plug’, though? I can understand how ‘hundreds’ becomes ‘hndreds’, but ‘plug’ -> ‘lough’?

*hopes post goes through, despite an hour of database errors*

[Leia's Left Bun]

The made the homepage narrower again and now as wide as the new products secondary pages.

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by Oisín

An Irish lake.

Was that supposed to be ‘plug’, though? I can understand how ‘hundreds’ becomes ‘hndreds’, but ‘plug’ -> ‘lough’?

*hopes post goes through, despite an hour of database errors*

It's fixed now - it says "cord". How "cord" got mistyped as "lough", I'll probably never know.

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by Tesseract

I like the Apple site updates. My chief criticism is that the site's too wide - I like to keep my Safari windows about 920 pixels wide, and the new Apple site needs closer to 1024 to be comfortable. Ironically, it will tend to work better for PC users who are more likely to have their Web browser maximized.

The new http://www.espn.com front-page needs a "WIDE LOAD" sign as well...

[production_coordinator]

Originally Posted by rickey939

The new http://www.espn.com front-page needs a "WIDE LOAD" sign as well...

Ugh... I hope there isn't a rush to "HD Websites"... I can already hear our marketing people saying "I hear the new thing is high definition... is our websites 'H' 'D' ?"

[vexborg]

Originally Posted by ort888

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/wireless.html

There's a glaring typo on this page. Under "Travel unfettered."

It might not be a typo... Take a look here:

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by vexborg

It might not be a typo... Take a look here:

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

The typo was "hndreds", not "unfettered".

[vexborg]

Originally Posted by Tesseract

The typo was "hndreds", not "unfettered".

Sorry, I was't paying attention.

[jcadam]

Originally Posted by JustAnOl'Broad

Hellapainful.
Why can't they have a portion of it that's not QTfor those of us on dial-up?

dial-up. What is that, eh?