Erm, just to let you know mate pretty much most HD televisions have IPS panels, Panasonic for one like mine does. So you have to realise that your are stating IPS is rubbish tech in COMPUTERS, NOT in general, otherwise most TV manufacturers have got it wrong for the last 3 years or so
Actually, most TVs don't. The refresh rate is too long and people would complain about blurry images.
IPS also is to do with viewing angles, not affect ghosting? Please explain why you think IPS is causing ghosting on the screen?
Geez, do I have to explain everything to everyone on this site?
IPS panels, compared to TN, have significantly lower refresh rates. Apple was using IPS panels with 24ms response times while everyone else had moved on to TN panels with 8ms or lower response times. My current desktop display has a 2ms gtg response time. There is NO ghosting. None. Moving images are every bit as sharp as my old CRT display. My MacBook, on the other hand, with a 16ms response time, has ghosting in everything from moving windows to even just moving the mouse cursor.
The thing is that Apple fans seem to be satisfied with high amounts of ghosting.
My HDTV in my living room has a full 170 degree viewing angle, but its a TN panel with an 8ms response time. No ghosting on it whatsoever.
Nobody buys a 13" laptop over a 15" purely for extra pixels. You don't "gain everything" hhahah. You get those extra pixels in a tiny ass 13" display (if what you were originally going for was a large 15").
I never said anything like that. Don't make it sound like I did.
hahah I always hide my dock. how does that make it "essentially useless"? Cuz I dont get to stare at it's pretty face all day? Yeah right, hiding the dock makes it useless... gotcha.
Because its easy to miss alerts from apps, and its an inconvenience to bring it up to access stacks menus, since going through Finder is a pain in the ass for getting to apps.
And vertical resolution is important for so many apps (web browsing, email) where you're reading a text vertically. It's weird that you're seriously questioning it.
Yes, thats true. But who seriously drags their browser window to full vertical resolution? Thats stupid and wastes space.
And I don't know what kind of apps you run that can't dynamically resize to 16x10, but that's not normal.
Games. Movies. Video content on websites such as youtube.
damn, you are an embarrassment when it comes to explaining why 16x10 sucks.
And you should learn to read. Because you're responding to things that I didn't say or imply.
Isn't the difference between why IPS would be good enough for tv's (but not computers) because tvs are so much bigger and ppl sit on couches to watch them? Compared to laptops where they're tiny screens that you're moving around a lot so it would be much more noticeable if IPS sucked.
Modern IPS panels still have too low of a response time for video.
Well.. I don't necessarily agree on the value. I think these are really overpriced machines. It was between this and a Dell Studio XPS 16. Thing is, I fully plan on selling it when USB3 is implemented. So I bought the mac.. simply because by 2011 the resale value will still be high, whereas the Dell won't be worth anything. In the end it probably will balance out value wise.
Bought a 15" MBP, i7, 128gb SSD, HD antiglare.
Says who? Unless you sell it on this forum, no person outside of Apple fanboy circles will pay even half new for what you paid for it. I hate to break it to you, but outside of Apple fans, that system will have very little value next year. Even now it's not worth half of what you paid for it.
