businesslogs.com — The new Apple MacBook Pro is supposed to be an upgrade, but it actually has a smaller screen resolution (6.25% smaller) as well as a few other "features" that make it less of an upgrade and more of a downgrade.
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intutumJan 12, 2006
It was very interesting to read your take on the newest gadget out of the mac factory. The specs look great until you look at them in detail, look at is missing, and as a PB user discover things like the Fire-Wire 800 missing that you have gotten so used to for backing up. Then you compare the specs of the mac machine with those of the ACER or ASUS and you wish that OS X would run on them!
nillocFeb 8, 2006
I agree with everything but the brightness of the screen vs 60px of height, with the possible exception of AfterFX and Gband (and who could stand running AfterFX on a laptop anyway? I need 2 monitors with it), most of today's graphics and multimedia apps benefit from the extra width more then height, and another trade off is that the screen gets easier to read. If the screen's resolution gets too high without an increase in size you just end up having to zoom in on things like timelines or Illustrator beziers, defeating the purpose of the extra space. As far as screen brightness goes, have you ever used a PowerBook in a flourecently lit office, or outside it doesn't sound like it, because I strain my eyes in brightly lit situations with my fw800 15".
nillocFeb 8, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://channels.lockergnome.com/osx/archives/20060120_macbook_pro_supports_fw800.phtml">http://channels.lockergnome.com/osx/archives/20060120_macbook_pro_supports_fw800.phtml</a>