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I'm about 2 ft from my 21.5" iMac. It's pretty bright and clear, but not Retina

And with 256:135, anything you view that's 16:9 will have unused screen areas. Something to think about. And what are you doing with your nose 17" from a 27 in monitor. That's how far away my iPad is. LOL That is a pretty cool tool though

Haha on the "Overkill. My favorite". You've attained it!

Interesting calculator for pixel density and viewing distance. http://isthisretina.com "What is a Retina display? Retina is Apple's trademark for a display so sharp that the human eye is unable to distinguish between pixels at a typical viewing distance. As Steve Jobs said: "It turns out there’s a magic number right around 300 pixels per inch, that when you hold something around to 10 to 12 inches away from your eyes, is the limit of the human retina to differentiate the pixels." Given a large enough viewing distance, all displays eventually become "retina." For a 32" 1080p TV, while the pixel density is only about 69 ppi, at 50" away, the display is about as good as most humans can resolve at that distance. With a 4K 32" 16:9 TV, you get the same effective resolution at 1/2 the distance or 25", which is about how far my iMac is away from me at my desk. So going to 8k resolution for a computer monitor might be overkill. Color accuracy and speed of the monitor become the more important factors at that point My iMac is a 21.5" model 1920x1080 21.5" iMac becomes Retina at 34". CA3LE. Move your 27" iMac so that it's 32" away from you and you probably won't see the pixels....it's 2560x1440.

Hi and welcome from SW Ohio in the US.

I average about 26 Mbps ( about 3.3 MB/s) on my iPad 2 via wireless - from all the way out in the garage. I have a 50 Mbps service from Time Warner Cable though. Even an old MacBook Pro with 802.11b wireless gets speeds about the same as the iPad.

Where do you see it? Where is the Mail Activity ?

I did TWC's Signature Home upgrade last October. 50 down, 5 up, and am getting download speed similar to yours. My uploads are about 5-5.3. On good days the download speed is even greater than 50, up around 53-54. I was on a 20/1 system before. It sure makes a difference. I need to update my signature. Those speeds are from before TWC fixed an issue.

What Comcast Internet speed package do you have? I've just read recently where Comcast may buy Time Warner Cable. I have a 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps Up plan with TWC, and my wired times are usually 45-52 Mbps - at times they are a little lower. Just curious how close you are to Comcasts' "guaranteed" numbers.

Hello from West Chester, OH. Welcome.

Thanks for the fix on the content. I don't believe I was the one that had an issue going from v12 to v13; I don't think I've ever emailed you a message directly. I think I asked in a thread once how to get back and forth from 12 to 13. Funny, I don't remember what v12 was like - I am 65 yrs old, but I'm not too resistant to change though. I just upgraded to iOS 7. It's been out since Sept 8, but I don't typically dive into a major OS change until after a few updates. It was at 7.0.3 when I took the plunge. I just took the plunge on Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks the other day and it's been out since Oct 22. It's at 10.9.1. Pretty happy with both of those upgrades, although I don't yet know that much about the new capabilities in each one. I can't wait to see what you've been cooking up

also, the TIP graphs show the variation has gone way down. it used to be consistently 30-50%. it's now consistently less than 10%, and many of the tests are 1-3%. i wish i knew what they did to fix it.

I called WC a month ago when I was getting those really low speeds. They blamed it on "the Internet", and I wasn't able to get any other answer except that it was somebody else's equipment. They must have other people call in about it, or the first of January 2014 they began service with another provider.

Late Dec or early Jan, TWC (or a company they're renting service from) fixed something. I'm now getting very close to the 50/5 service I'm signed up for. Some of those deep dips on the 60 day chart went down to 2-3 Mbps download - slower than the upload speed. It was painful.

CA3LE - It's been empty since late December when the mySQL database had the issues. I'm pretty sure some others users' was empty back then too. It doesn't seem to be logging new stuff either. This post didn't show up in My Content Not an urgent matter. Put it on your Reminders. Ha. And like one of my old bosses used to say when we were overloaded - hurry every chance you get.

Yeah, between the TIP stuff and the upcoming TraceMy stuff, it really will be freakin' awesome

Yeah, it must have been that.

Thanks. I figured something went down. I saw the database unavailable message come up for a while. I assumed that affected the My Content stuff too. The TIP plots are a great feature.

Except that it screams pretty good in the middle of the night. I called them and they pointed the finger at "the Internet". They said I was getting connected at high rates and the bottlenecks were not on TWC equipment. It could possibly be more and more streaming video and audio, and more complex web pages I suppose. But it's getting worse by the month. A year ago it used to slow down by 1/2 during the prime time hours 8 PM - 12 AM. Now it slows down by a factor of 10 from 8 AM until 2 AM the next day. And it's virtually the same every day. And it definitely got worse after Christmas.

Among my old (still working) computers, my 1994 PowerBook 520c still fires up and runs (on AC power, the battery is shot). I haven't used it for anything since about 2001. PowerBook 520c Introduced May 1994 Discontinued June 1995 (520) September 1995 (520c) Initial Price $2,900 ($4435 in 2013 dollars) Support Status Obsolete Weight and Dimensions 6.3 lbs. (520) 6.4 lbs. (520c), 2.3" H x 11.5" W x 9.7" D Processor Motorola 68LC040 Processor Speed 25 MHz Number of Cores 1 Coprocessor None Cache 8 KB L1 System Bus 25 MHz Storage 160 - 240 MB Media 1.44 MB floppy SOFTWARE Original OS System 7.1.1 (PowerBook 500 Series Enabler) Maximum OS Mac OS 8.1 Built-in Memory 4 MB Maximum Memory 36 MB Memory Slots 1 - PB 5xx Minimum Speed 70 ns Interleaving Support No Built-in Display 9.5" 8 bit (520c) passive matrix LCD Resolutions 640x480 Graphics Card None Graphics Memory 512k Display Connection Mini-15 Wi-Fi None Bluetooth None Ethernet AAUI-15 Modem None ADB 1 Serial 1 SCSI HDI-30 Display Connection Mini-15 Infrared None Audio In 1 - 3.5-mm analog input jack, 1 - Built-in microphone Audio Out 1 - 3.5-mm analog output jack, 1 - Built-in speakers Slots Modem, Optional Type II/III PC Card Bay Bays PowerBook Expansion Bay (90-pin) PDS Hard Drive Interface SCSI SENSORS Motion Sensor None POWER System Battery PB 500 Intelligent Battery (M1906) (NiMH) Maximum Continuous Power 40 W Our first Mac was a 1988 SE with a 20 MB HDD and 1 MB RAM - upgraded right away to the then max of 4 x 1 MB SIMMs @ $35 per MB!!!! We were still using that SE in 1999 for text editing on a shared network of newspaper writers. I still have an SE in the basement. My wife started a desktop publishing business with it and a LaserWriter printer in '88 and in 1990 we bought a small A&E newspaper. I believe she was the first newspaper in Cincinnati to paste up text and graphics onto the newspaper layouts. She was also the first to go fully digital - giving the printers a Zip drive instead of layouts. It took a long time for the newspaper printing companies to switch from cameras to the portable media. I think she started doing it digitally in 1996 or '97.

Yeah. I've been drooling over the new MBP. Our mid-2006 MBP is getting very long in the tooth. I put a bigger HDD in it, and some more RAM a couple of years ago, but it's only a Core Duo machine so it would measure like a pixel width on a pie chart comparison against the new one. We don't really have the great need for speed here so we're getting by with the old one and a mid-2010 iMac which is still a great machine but even it is only an i3 processor-HDD machine and no screamer. It handles all my music work really well though, as those files aren't very big. It would be nice though to wait only a fraction of a second to convert music file types rather than the 5-10 seconds I wait now. Still I lust over the new MBP. It would be nice to be able to use a laptop doing music in multiple places in the house - which I can't really do easily now.

New stuff isn't going in there either. I got a database unavailable message yesterday for a little while and the TestMy pages were just blank with that message.

When I hit the TID link in the results table, I no longer see the TIP plots. It gives you a message that "no TiP details on this result". It used to give you a plot of the speed vs test time. Just wondering if that function has been removed.

Thanks EB. Where did you get that info?

From near Cincinnati Ohio, I test using the Dallas, TX and Washington, DC servers. Download Speeds: - Over the past 6 months (or more) the average speeds during the hours from 2 AM to about 7 AM, I get good speeds - in the range of ~ 25 to 45 Mbps depending on the server selected. - Between the hours of about 9-10 AM until 12-1 AM the next day, the speeds have been getting slower and slower over the months. - A couple of months ago they used to dip down to ~ 8-12 Mbps during the peak usage hours. Now they are consistently in the 2-5 Mbps range. Upload speeds: they are fairly consistent and usually between 3.5 and 4.5 Mbps regardless of time of day. - Anyone else having similar drastic speed reductions during the daytime? - Has yours been getting worse over the past 6 months or so? I'm on TWC's 50 Mbps max down and 5 Mbps up max plan.