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Well, it is what it is. I was hoping it would detect my browser resolution and make the video bigger -- a bit like the vidzbigger extension for Chrome.

I'm really hoping that the world realizes people actually do get commodity hardware now that runs in 1920x1080, small little layouts surrounded by oceans of whitespace on my monitor are annoying.

I agree that the layouts could do better, but at the same time people need to snap out of this every-application-gets-maximised habit.

I use my 1920x1200 screen with a main app (e.g. browser) taking up the left 2/3 and auxiliary apps sharing the remaining 1/3 (if required, otherwise blank desktop) http://i.imgur.com/s3IaV.png

I see you are getting some real work done there in your terminal...

Did you resolve the word?

That is a very typically Mac way of using screen space, and is something that I do all the time on my Mac computers. However, from what I have seen Windows users seem to like to have their applications filling the whole screen. (I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions to this, but I'm just stating what I have seen as a general trend.)

I personally find macs virtually unusuable due to the way the interface forces visual clutter all over the display. I can only do one thing at a time anyway (unless I'm listening to music or radio in the background), I'm not sure why I need to see half a dozen things at the same time.

Windows (and most apps) in OS X are generally intended to do one thing. Even monolithic applications used full screen like Final Cut Pro are often made up of windowed components. Even so, there are also single-window apps that are intended to be used maximised and work perfectly well that way, such as Logic Studio. The problem would only be if you tried to use an app differently than it's intended to be used.

For many applications it doesn't make any sense to maximise them on a large screen. Very, very few web sites are wider than 1000px, so maximizing a browser on a large screen is pretty silly. Even if the site has a fluid layout, wide columns of text are horrible for reading.

Other applications don't even make any sense maximized, like a chat client like adium or a password manager. Apps like a terminal that could be used either maximized of windowed work perfectly fine either way.

And with software development the options are usually using emacs or vim full screen, which works perfectly well; using an IDE full screen, which works perfectly weel; or using a combination of smaller apps (eg, terminal, editor, SCM GUI, broswer, etc), which, despite being a different paradigm, also works perfectly well.

So, really, what are these scenarios when maximizing every window a) makes sense and b) is problematic on OS X?

I would never be able to concentrate with so many things going on in my field of vision. My screen always contains either a fully maximized Emacs window, or a fully maximized Chrome window.

I meant that even if the other applications are hidden, at 1920w you should only maximise if it makes sense, which it rarely does for a browser.

I disagree. I have a large display and still maximize everything because I don't like having window chrome in the middle of the screen - it's visually distracting. Actually if Apple would let me switch off all window decorations (like I used to on Linux), I'd be happier.

Am I the only one who thought this was an April Fool's Day joke at first? It is a bad time to be launching a serious redesign or new feature.

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