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High Res Screens in 15'' Macbook Pro

I am wondering if there is any way possible to avoid the restocking fee and upgrade if any of the stores in my area were to get a hi-res 15" in stock.

Anyone think it may be possible? Paying $100 for it is one thing, but its certainly not worth about $300 with the restocking fee...
 
boonleng said:
I'm debating on this too... I'm very comfortable with iPhone/iPod touch that have 132 DPI and this 1680x1050 is 128 DPI. Should be alright no? Well, gotta make a trip down to apple store to see it in person. Hopefully the one here has a floor unit.
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Precisely my point. We have 50 million people who have no problem surfing on their dimunitive iPhone and yet they're afraid they're not going to like it on a gianormous 15-inch screen. :p :D
 
ubercool said:
Precisely my point. We have 50 million people who have no problem surfing on their dimunitive iPhone and yet they're afraid they're not going to like it on a gianormous 15-inch screen. :p :D
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Well when you use your iphone, it's closer to you than a laptop would be. Also, fonts sizes tend to be viewed relative to the screen size and iPhone sized font on a giant screen is going to seem smaller than on the iphone
 
absolutazn87 said:
Well when you use your iphone, it's closer to you than a laptop would be. Also, fonts sizes tend to be viewed relative to the screen size and iPhone sized font on a giant screen is going to seem smaller than on the iphone
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Maybe you need glasses. :D Just kidding.

But, seriously though. With higher DPI, things are sharper. I have no troubles reading small text on a piece of printed material, which typically has 600 DPI. I think higher DPI helps. WALDT, at the end, it's a personal preference.
 
absolutazn87 said:
Well when you use your iphone, it's closer to you than a laptop would be. Also, fonts sizes tend to be viewed relative to the screen size and iPhone sized font on a giant screen is going to seem smaller than on the iphone
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I'm sorry but I don't hold the iPhone next to my nose, but at half-folded arm's length. My MacBook is about twice that distance. So, the overall effect at looking at the type on in the iPhone is that it's amazingly small. Just look at how the new Opera Mini initially renders fonts, as straight lines, then it zooms up 200% with one click.

So, if you can handle surfing on your iPhone at normal viewing distances, you should have little problem reading the new MBP hi-res. :)
 
ubercool said:
I have owned several 15-inch laptops with 1680x1050 resolution, including the famous ASUS Lamborghini, and I love the high-res screen. It's fabulous being able to see so much screen real estate.

If you are a bi-focal wearer and think type is already too small on a standard-res MacBook Pro, stay away, but for us resolution hawk eyes, this is the best move Apple has ever made. :cool: :D
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I just make the fonts bigger when I need to make it easier to read.
 
Personally, i have a 1920x1200 15.4" screen and love it. It is not difficult for me to read and being able to tile so many windows is awesome. I think 1680x1050 was a very necessary bump, the 1440x900 on existing MBPs is absolutely dismal.
 
Yeah I just walked over to the Apple Store and checked out the high res 17 inch. I'm getting much more used to it and it really is quite readable and great once you get used to the transition.
 
Hey :)

does anybody of you know whether the High res. glossy display on the 15 inch mbp has the same black frame? Or maybe another, maybe the silver frame as the anti-glare frame?

I hope anybody could answer me soon because I already ordered a 15 inch mbp with the high res glossy screen xD

Thx :)
 
ok thx for the quick answer :)

I hope so because for me the silver frame looks...mh not that good xD
Bur ur right it has to be like this because apple didnt mentioned it otherwise in the descriptions :)
 
I bought a 17" Anti-Glare about a year ago BECAUSE of the crappy 15" 1440x900 resolution. I had a previous generation MBP 15" with that resolution, and while it was ok, I love the 1920x1200 on my 17" MBP.

When I get a new MBP...I'll be tempted to look at the hi-res 15" due to the slightly increased portability of the 15. Love my 17 though!
 
dang -- called an apple store, they have matte 17" and high res glossy 15"

just give me a matte 15" and i'll fly out the store like a bat out of hell and gladly fork over my credit card.

COME ON!
 
thadoggfather said:
dang -- called an apple store, they have matte 17" and high res glossy 15"

just give me a matte 15" and i'll fly out the store like a bat out of hell and gladly fork over my credit card.

COME ON!
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Where did you find a 15" hi res glossy in the store? My local stores don't seem to have them...
 
The Falls in Miami "supposedly" has them unless the employee over the phone was ill informed which is possible. Maybe he just interpreted "high resolution glossy" to mean standard glossy.

Still, why the antiglare 17" but not 15"? I'm ready to throw down.
 
That's fine, I've never claimed to be a normal person or fit in with most people's trends (despite buying an Apple). I don't buy laptops for approval, and I like to think (I'm) different :apple::apple::apple::apple::D:apple::apple::apple::apple:

I don't care if you buy glossy, matte, or neither and still use just a pen and paper. It's stupid to get political over trivial, consumer choice matters.

But I did do a poll and out of the three options: normal glossy, high res gloss, high res matte, 50% choose matte. So I'm not the only "weirdo."
 
hockey9999 said:
My local store in NJ didn't have any hi-res models in stock.

I bought a 2.53 15" this morning without the hi-res display and have been wondering if I made a mistake ever since.. Serious buyers remorse. I am coming from a 2007 MacBook so either way, this display is way better than my old machine.

Not that there is much I can do about it now, but I am wondering if I would have benefited from the hi-res display or not. I do a good deal of work in Aperture 3. I never do anything with HD video, nor do I plan to.

Was there a noticeable difference with anything besides screen real estate?

Should I have held out for a hi-res?
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I much prefer the high-res "anti-reflective" screen. Glossy screens are just not meant for photo editing(despite what some of the crazies in here say!).
 
Used to have 1900x1200 on my 15" Dell. Was awesome. 1440x900 on my current 15" MBP is borderline lame. Very much looking forward to 1680x1050!
 
"Glossy" (aka "Reflective") is so much hassle when I'm traveling it makes me rage.
 
And that's why they made a neat little anti-glare adhesive sheet for only $13.

Seriously, on a plane, at the airport, in the park, on my porch with the jambox scaring away the white folk, my display never gives me problems. I guess people just prefer being able to easily gouge their delicate exposed LCD panel and like their colors to look bleached and need a tiny crevice in their bezel to store their business cards and finger nail clippings.
 
pastparticiple said:
I had to reduce the resolution on the last gen MBP in order to comfortable view it. I won't pay more for a screen I will just have to dial back anyway. The people who find the old resolution so miserable must have eyes very different than mine.
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You should be increasing the text/page size rather than lowering the screen resolution.

Any modern web browser supports full page scaling (text, images, plugins etc.) to avoid changing the layout, but when you do this the text is rendered at a higher resolution and looks much sharper when it is the same physical size on a high resolution screen vs a lower resolution one.

I can't think of any application where you're working with text that won't let you scale things up.

boonleng said:
I'm debating on this too... I'm very comfortable with iPhone/iPod touch that have 132 DPI and this 1680x1050 is 128 DPI. Should be alright no? Well, gotta make a trip down to apple store to see it in person. Hopefully the one here has a floor unit.
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The iPhone screen is 165 PPI, much higher resolution than any of the notebook screens Apple offers.
  • 13.3" 1280x800: 114 PPI
  • 15.4" 1440x900: 110 PPI
  • 15.4" 1680x1050: 129 PPI
  • 17" 1920x1200: 133 PPI
These are much less pixel-dense than the iPhone screen, and a lot less than 'PC' manufacturers offer:
  • Sony 13.1" 1600x900: 140 PPI
  • Sony 13.1" 1920x1080: 168 PPI
  • Various 15.4" 1920x1200: 147 PPI
For tasks like video/photo editing, you simply cannot have enough resolution. It both improves the sharpness of the image displayed on-screen (photos are typically printed at 300+ DPI for example) and gives you significantly more workspace.

As you can easily scale up web pages etc. in size if you find things too small, I would happily pay a premium for a 1920x1080 13" screen if it were an option. (note: Sony offers this screen upgrade for approximately half the cost of Apple's high resolution screen option on the 15")
 
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