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This page is a fantastic example of great development skills used in a way that is utterly infuriating to use. I don't want it to animate when I use my scroll wheel. I want the page to scroll.

Off topic, but were this and the Air the only product announced? If so, I'm disappointed- I was hoping to pick up an updated Macbook Retina 13". Oh well.

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Yeah, I ended up using the buttons on the side. "Rotate your mouse an indeterminate amount" is not a good UI interaction.

I tried Firefox on Windows 8. I did not find any animation effects. However, Chrome on Windows 8 has those animations, and the applications' scroll bar is hidden. Bad UI indeed.

I had to enable JS to find out what you're talking about. The result was 200 megs of memory consumption and the realization I may be using a different kind of internet than most people when using NoScript. (I'm surprised they have a non-JS version.)

I imagine they designed it for trackpads, not scroll wheel mice. It works pretty well on a trackpad.

Odd that they implemented a web site for a desktop PC for consumption via the input devices of a laptop, and not a... desktop PC.

Don't their mice have a trackpad built into the top now?

Yes, magic mouse is pretty much a trackpad

Apple sells an external trackpad.

Not that odd, given that the icon for their "Mice and Keyboards" section is the magic trackpad.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/mac_accessori...

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC380LL/A/magic-trackpad?f...

Desktop Macs come with either a large trackpad or a mouse with a trackpad surface.

http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/

http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/

It works just fine, I think the complaint was that when one uses the scrollwheel on the mouse, the expectation is that the page will scroll. It's a cool demo page, but it feels weird.

Just an FYI, you can use the arrow keys (L and R) to scroll. Much easier.

Space bar as well

Other than the operating system previews, they also seem to be standardizing around 802.11ac for the airport related products.

I'm in the exact same situation. I am hoping that they launch the updated 13" rMBP along with OS X 10.9.

Additionally, an updated AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule were announced.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/mac_accessori...

I wish meta complaints about site a link points to would be flagged out of existence. This adds absolutely nothing to the discussion of the topic on-hand, the new Mac Pro. It takes up a ton of scrolling space with unrelated moaning garbage.

the animation is terribly slow on my 1mbps african internet connection... completely unusable.

IIRC, it's a two-day thing...

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