Any chance of Apple releasing a 19" MBP? I'm just finding the 17" a bit too small for my liking. I feel that the extra screen space would offset the slight loss in mobility. I'd happily pay slightly more for this. Anyone else feel the same way?
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19" MacBook Pro
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Zero chance. Many people think a 17" is too big and unwieldy. If you need more screen real estate buy a larger monitor to hook up the laptop, or buy an iMac.
a 19" laptop would be too big/heavy to be considered a mobile computer.
Yeah and it was a total pig of a boat anchor as well, which didn't help it's cause!
I want a holo-cube. A device the size of a zippo, that can project a 27'' screen into thin air and an infrared keyboard and touchpad on the table in front of me. Of course with quad core power and GPU and all the other fancy stuff. Then I can finally ditch my heavy laptop bag.
This is my thought exactly. If you want a larger screen, go for the iMac. Laptops are meant for portability.
True! What really made it an epic fail was that it didn't offer much over the top end 17" machines other than that huge display. They tried marketing it to nerds that loved LAN parties and professionals in multimedia/engineering, but nerds at LAN parties don't have money, and pros in the field don't want to carry a 20 lbs. machine.
It was mostly that monitor and the space needed to cool it. They had 19" laptops here and there, but they just sucked compared to the 17" and 15" versions. The price would shoot up another $500-$700 just because of the display, and you didn't get any special hardware benefit.
The real questions is: Will Apple put the full keyboard on the 19" MBP?
Now, I would never use anything other than a 17" MBP for my line of work, but I don't think a 19" would be any real benefit. And I don't like off-center keyboard layouts so I'll just take that immaculate 17" MBP as is.
Your edit is not true for me. The need is greater than my desire to own such devices.
Have to agree with both counts here. The iMac screen size was the reason why I switched over to the MBP...27" was just too big for my needs.
My 17" MBP near enough tears my arms off lugging it.....A 19" not going to happen....Let's face it that's low end desktop territory anyway. I have a 13" MBA would like to see a 15" model, but that's being covered in another thread.