Apple certainly isn't cutting edge these days, although its reputation for high quality and ease of use is as good as ever. Apple has, however, been cutting edge at times. When I bought a 17 inch Powerbook G3 in 2003, it was the only 17 inch laptop on the market and was far thinner than any other manufacturer's laptops, regardless of size. Even now, the ability of Intel Macs to run both OS X and Windows apps right out of the box is unique in the industry. In fact, this capability is the only thing that's keeping me in the Apple camp these days.
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Apple is no where near cutting edge
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Because vertical screen real estate greatly impacts your comfort. Since size of such items as Dock, Menu Bar and your app's menus remain constant, one's left with a greatly decreased working area.
By the way, I really can't imagine who needs this stupid 16:9. Don't movies look as great on 16:10?
Some people don't like letterboxes: contrasts with black (letterbox vs. movie black) can be distracting.
As puma1552 said, going to 16:9 can be achieved by extending the screen horizontally, thus gaining more space than a 16:10 screen with the same height.
Then you must be sad most of your life.
Apple doesn't try to compete with other laptops based on specs alone. Thats why it has high margins and is well respected in terms of design and UI.
If it growls like a troll
Hmm. Newbie poster sends out flamebait and gets linked to the main page of MacRumor. I expect many charges of fanboy in the thread to follow.
Somehow, I expect that you would have been posting ten years ago how the G4 was generations behind the latest Intel processor.
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Hmm. Newbie poster sends out flamebait and gets linked to the main page of MacRumor. I expect many charges of fanboy in the thread to follow.
Somehow, I expect that you would have been posting ten years ago how the G4 was generations behind the latest Intel processor.
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Yeah I have no idea why nobody ever thinks of extending the horizontal dimension of the laptop and is hell bent that they would hack off the vertical dimensions of the laptop.
It's generally understood that 14, 16, and 18 inch laptops are physically bigger than their 13, 15, and 17 inch counterparts, right? Those laptops don't get physically bigger by cutting the vertical direction, if they did that they would be smaller than their 13, 15, and 17 inch counterparts. Instead, they get bigger because usually they are extended horizontally.
+ 1, - Toshiba and Asus as well... I sure hope this update will be worth waiting for...
Couldn't agree with you more. However, be careful about expressing this on a Mac forum. You might upset some sensitive people.
So many angry Mac fans. It's hard to accept the truth, is not it? It's easier to attach someone.
This thread reminds me of those people who chose to buy those racing performance upgrades for their cars, But would never actually drive it faster than 40-50MPH.
It would allow 1920x1080 resolution (at least on the 15/16 and 17/18 inch lineups).
You do understand that in performance driving, acceleration on the low end is just as important, if not more important than high end top speed, right?