Hi everyone
It would be so fantastically helpful if some lucky owners of the new 17" MBP compared its display side-by-side with a 15" model. Really, please, put the two laptops next to each other.
The product description says it has 60% wider color gamut and 700:1 contrast ratio. But what was the contrast ratio of the 15" model? What does it translate to in real life? Does it feel like marginal improvement or a huge difference?
Personally, I do not care much about color calibration and glossy/matte. What I do care about is the resulting readability of the screen and the general impression that it makes.
In past I had a Sony 17" with 1920x1200 S-IPS panel which was fun to use, but sucked outdoors (say, in a car) because of insufficient brightness.
Then I had a 17" Santa-Rosa MBP 1920x1200 and CCFL backlight. Pretty much the same downsides, except that it had worse color saturation and even lower maximum brightness. Operating at 80-100% brightness, it was optimal in the office, though. That laptop died.
Now I am inclined to make a jump and get a 15" model, unless the new 17" addresses well those display deficiencies.
It would be so fantastically helpful if some lucky owners of the new 17" MBP compared its display side-by-side with a 15" model. Really, please, put the two laptops next to each other.
The product description says it has 60% wider color gamut and 700:1 contrast ratio. But what was the contrast ratio of the 15" model? What does it translate to in real life? Does it feel like marginal improvement or a huge difference?
Personally, I do not care much about color calibration and glossy/matte. What I do care about is the resulting readability of the screen and the general impression that it makes.
In past I had a Sony 17" with 1920x1200 S-IPS panel which was fun to use, but sucked outdoors (say, in a car) because of insufficient brightness.
Then I had a 17" Santa-Rosa MBP 1920x1200 and CCFL backlight. Pretty much the same downsides, except that it had worse color saturation and even lower maximum brightness. Operating at 80-100% brightness, it was optimal in the office, though. That laptop died.
Now I am inclined to make a jump and get a 15" model, unless the new 17" addresses well those display deficiencies.