Talk:Timeline of Apple Macintosh models

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Where's the LC 475? —This unsigned comment was added by 212.105.83.121 (talk • contribs) .

Omitted as being too similar to the Quadra 605. Do you think it is important to include it? -- grm_wnr Esc 11:23, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

The antialiasing of the small text on this image leaves much to be desired. Was this image made on OS 9? Can someone post the original file so that attempts to render it with better text can be made?

Read the page source - this isn't a normal image, it's rendered on-the-fly from source code on the Wikimedia servers by a MediaWiki extension module called EasyTimeline. And there's no way to influence the output unless you patch/update the renderer (See also bugzilla:5400). -- grm_wnr Esc 13:21, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

First off, I think this is great and a real addition to the Mac articles on Wikipedia - thanks. Now a couple of minor issues. I somewhat agree about the text. I think its not so much an anti-aliasing issue, rather the text is too small. I haven't used the Wikimedia EasyTimeline before, so I'm not sure if this can be easily addressed. The second thing is the vertical lines denoting months make for eye-strain when reading the chart, and at this scale I don't think they add much information; can they be turned off? Maybe just leave a 6-month line?. Like I said, these are minor nits to pick. Overall, its great. Best Gwernol

Both is possible - but if the text is made larger, the text fields begin to overlap and they're already as short as possible. The timeline is already at its maximum width (1600px), so enlarging it isn't an option either. The month lines can be removed, but setting them at 6 month intervals seems illogical to me - I'll make them lighter though, that should make them less distracting. -- grm_wnr Esc 23:12, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MacBook

How about adding the MacBook in-between the iBook 14 and Powerbook 12 entries. The MacBook is an extension of the iBook 12, iBook 14, and PowerBook 12 lines. Putting it in it's own branch would be appropriate. Paul^C/_T+ 21:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Good idea, I've done so (mostly because we have the space anyway). -- grm_wnr Esc 21:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OSs

The chart should definitely indicate what (major-version) OS(s) were shipped with each model.

Should specify which models are able to use which versions of OSX, and what models can't boot in OS9.

[edit] Good work!

Hat's off to the people involved in making these charts, they're great! Maury 13:46, 14 October 2006 (UTC)