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LED-lit Displays in Upcoming 15'' MacBook Pros?

maxp1 said:
Well I'm looking to pass my aging, but still very functional, G4 powerbook down to my girlfriend soon (who's using my old TIbook). It would be fantastic if the new MBP came out with whatever the next processor upgrade is, the next OS upgrade and non-draft-n wifi.
Of course I want it NOW!! I hate playing the waiting game. :) Then again, I've had good luck waiting and managed to catch 2nd generations of significant upgrades (the ones with the bugs worked out) that have lasted a long time. This time I decided not to go for the 2nd generation Intel Macs figuring it would take a bit longer to get everything straight. I chomping at the bit though.

Anyone have a feature wish list for the MBP that's longer than mine?
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Well, you won't get final spec 802.11n until it's ratified in 2008 so you'll be waiting a while for that - however it should only take a firmware update to bring the current draft-n spec up to final spec.
 
Awesome! It seems like the Santa Rosa-based revision is going to be a BIG revision. The screen does use a decent amount of battery power, going to LED should help leviate it a bit.
 
does anyone know of any links/pics comparing LCD vs LED screens? I tried googlin but couldn't find a good one.
 
gogoman said:
When are we gonna start seeing OLED displays in our laptops. I hope Apple is secretly working out the fading blues problem in this technology and is first to integrate into laptops. Uses MUCH less power, creates its OWN light and super pixel density.
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Solution to fading blue: Adapt the color profile once in a while. Apple could make that automatic, so every few weeks of your screen being on, it turns up the blue a notch. The only bad thing about OLED is you can't read it in bright sunlight. That's what's cool about LCD, you can even read it with the backlight off, when there's enough natural light reflected by the panel. You can even shine a maglite through the Apple logo of your Macbook, it lightens up the screen quite a bit.
 
Apple Aus has an education deal going now that gives a $200 cashback on any iPod purchased with a computer before April 17th (a Monday I believe). What's the bet that Santa Rosa-based MBPs with LED backlights, HD resolution and all the bells and whistles comes out on Tuesday the 18th? :D

Now I wonder if I can milk my education discount out long enough to stretch to April...
 
thejadedmonkey said:
As long as you can't even get two mouse buttons on a laptop, you'll never get an isight that can swivle/
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Good point. Two button mouse would be nice. But I dont know. Ctrl's been workin for me for awhile. I dont know whenever I need two buttons I just use my might mouse. Its only like photoshop and word where i really feel it.
 
cool, but I wish apple would only innovate when I was in the market for a new system, but make huge leaps at those times. I'll add that to my list of things to do when the King of Mars installs me as Communist Dictator of the colony Earth...
 
Maybe this is it.

This maybe the Santa Rosa upgrade with LED illumination, a higher contrast and higher resolution screen with support for resolution independance. Woot.

Warning: you need to wear sunglasses with these babies and put on some sun tan lotion.
 
thejadedmonkey said:
As long as you can't even get two mouse buttons on a laptop, you'll never get an isight that can swivle/
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Amen. I mean honestly, one button? I'm usually not that hurt over feature loss but you'd think a two-buttoned mouse in a laptop would be a basic. Im surprised they even included speakers in the Macbooks.
 
Anybody know what the LED spectrum is like? Is it white enough to give good color?

Chef Medeski said:
I would be shocked if it was more than 10%. Id feel vindicated for 5%. Well I mean. If you had robson hybrid hd/ram technology. With these screens. Plus a bit more efficient CPUs. You could potentially get 15-25%. Which if you think about it. On a 4 hours battery life is almost an extra hour. Pretty good. Nothing AMAZING. But good evolution.
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I'd guess that any power reductions will get absorbed by either higher power processors or lighter batteries. I don't think run-time will change.
 
I am curious how this affects the price. Will it be higher or lower now or stay the same because it can?
 
Leondunkleyc said:
Sounds great, just two questions, what's the price difference between these and the current backlights, and what is the expected lifespan for them? Is it 5000 hours like most products using LEDs?
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most led's in flashlights have 100,000 hours... of course they lose a little brightnss but they maintain very well. it would far exceed that of an lcd screen though, i know that much.
 
Darn it... this means we will probably lose our glowing apple on the other side of the screen. :) :) :)
 
I think the more important point of switching to LED backlights is that there will be no more lead in the computers. That's gotta make Greenpeace happy...
 
Brightness decay...

I hope the brightness holds up with this technology...I know the blue LED's on some of my case fans have DRAMATICALLY faded over the past year or so. I can barely tell that the LED's are there now.. :-/
 
iVoid said:
Darn it... this means we will probably lose our glowing apple on the other side of the screen. :) :) :)
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Trust me Apple will find a way to make that light up, that or we will never go to LED's OR Apple will just stop making laptops.


EDIT: Wow 2 posts just popped right above me, we all posted at like the same time.
 
You'll never see a moveable isight because of the fact it would create more breaks in the casing and deter from the smooth edges of the outside shell. If they could get away with it I bet they wouldn't let you replace the battery in your laptop without removing the bottom panel.

Two buttom mouse, Steve won't let that happen anytime soon, it's about ego. Why do you think they have the mighty mouse? its touch sensitive. The new multi-touch track pads (probably a way for apple to work out the kinks before putting it on a screen) these are both things that didn't need to be done but they did it so they didn't have to give into a two button world.
 
This would definitely be a nice update to the MBPs. My wife is looking at buying one once Leopard and iLife 07 are released so hopefully the timing will work out well to take advantage of this update as well. :cool:
 
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