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LED MacBook Pro Update in June?
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What about an 8" screen? Cmon Apple, you suck if you don't come out with a 8", 10", 12", and 14" laptops.
Oh, and yes I'm looking forward to the 17" LED MBP.
Oh, and yes I'm looking forward to the 17" LED MBP.
This is AWESOME. I have been waiting since roughly November of last year to get a new laptop (partly because I wasn't sure what I wanted back then). I've been waiting to get a MBP in particular since probably February or so. I REALLY hope there's something to this rumor, and I hope they update the graphics card too...
Makes sense. MBP goes Santa Rosa with LED in late June or early July. I would be surprised but not totally shocked to see a WWDC announcement with immediate availability, more likely to be shipping 2-3 weeks later. Likewise a July or early August timeframe for Santa Rosa with LED MacBooks makes sense as well.
Hopefully this means the iMac revision will be announced with immediate availabilty at WWDC, though there is no mention of LED display orders for the 17, 20, or 24 inch screens. It's possible that the iMac gets the Santa Rosa update along with some other spec changes at WWDC, but does not see new screens till the fall.
Hopefully this means the iMac revision will be announced with immediate availabilty at WWDC, though there is no mention of LED display orders for the 17, 20, or 24 inch screens. It's possible that the iMac gets the Santa Rosa update along with some other spec changes at WWDC, but does not see new screens till the fall.
How will these screens view compared to what we have now? Other than power consumption what are the benefits?
I'd almost be a little nevous getting it right when it comes out just because it's new technology and you never know what bugs have to be worked out. The idea of longer battery life is a nice sell though.
I'd almost be a little nevous getting it right when it comes out just because it's new technology and you never know what bugs have to be worked out. The idea of longer battery life is a nice sell though.
Mmmm, my six month old MBP has slight backlight issues and uneven brightness on dim settings...wonder if, say in the fall, Apple Care would do screen replacements with LED backlights instead of today's standard. Hope the update is little more than speed bumps and internal component upgrades (since it might benefit moi in getting a different backlight 
) Thoughts?
) Thoughts?It's likely that new displays will have different electrical requirements than the old screens, so it's very unlikely that a future LCD panel will be a drop-in replacement for an existing one. And I think the new displays would have to be much better than the old ones in order to even justify the risk of a third-party upgrade, and other than more uniform illumination and perhaps lower power consumption I'm not sure what exactly makes LED backlighting so much better to traditional technologies.
Although this one has only seen 40 months of use so far, this looks like a great time to update my 1.25GHz PowerBook Feels almost like losing a friend but hey, there are always new ones...
Feels almost like losing a friend but hey, there are always new ones...Around 100,000 LED Screens....hmmmm
Will there be enough to go around??
I probably think there would be.... according to the amount of people on here who said they are going to buy it once its is released....
that leaves about.... 95,000.
My dad was worried too about getting one for himself...he's like.... they don't know if they will last longer than a LCD or not.... they havent been out that long to test....
it's kinda like plasma compared to an old fashioned tube tv
ME? I'm taking the risk. Bout darn time Apple decides to take some of my money before I spend it elsewhere.
Will there be enough to go around??
I probably think there would be.... according to the amount of people on here who said they are going to buy it once its is released....
that leaves about.... 95,000.
My dad was worried too about getting one for himself...he's like.... they don't know if they will last longer than a LCD or not.... they havent been out that long to test....
it's kinda like plasma compared to an old fashioned tube tv
ME? I'm taking the risk. Bout darn time Apple decides to take some of my money before I spend it elsewhere.
anyone have an idea of the cost difference between current MBP LCD displays and these LED backlit ones?
I don't have time right now to research it, but that would be extremely helpful.
If someone finds only retail cost, can anyone say how much cheaper a bulk purchase of 100K would be?
I'm concerned the 15.4 LED MBPs will cost as much as the current 17" MBPs, which will mean I can't afford one.
I don't have time right now to research it, but that would be extremely helpful.
If someone finds only retail cost, can anyone say how much cheaper a bulk purchase of 100K would be?
I'm concerned the 15.4 LED MBPs will cost as much as the current 17" MBPs, which will mean I can't afford one.
It is highly doubtful that the MBP will go up in price at all. Apple almost always keeps prices the same per model or slightly lowers them with product revisions.
I think the 2007 version of the subnotebook is called the iPhone.
The LED's are only being used as the backlight, so this won't affect any burn in type behaviour that you would see in a plasma tv. Most LED's are rated for a lifespan of at least 100,000 hours, some even getting up as high as 500,000. This translates to over 11 years having it on 24/7. I highly doubt you'll be concerned about the backlight of an 11 year old laptop.
No way, the drive circuitry is totally different. LED's are low voltage DC, and the CCFL tubes in traditional LCD's use very high voltage AC.
I am really looking for a resolution bump. Probably one of the biggest reasons I am leaning between a MBP and a Dell Lattitude D820. Yes I know, Dell sucks, but their Buisness line is a little bit of a different story and that laptop give me the option of a higher resolution screen and I can put 2 batteries on it for 8+ hours of operation and for twice the explosions! To me, if I am going to drop around 2G's for a laptop, it damn well better have a nice high resolution display.
Looks like 3 people so far have asked this question.
Anyway, aside from power consumption, there are other concrete benefits. The big one is that LED-backlit screens are brighter and more vibrant by far than traditional non-LED backlit screens.
If you want to see the benefit in person, head down to your local CompUSA, Best Buy, SonyStyle store, etc. and look at one of the premium Sony SZ laptops (i.e. Sony SZ370, Sony SZ460, etc.... anything with a model number above SZx5x) or a Sony TX. These models all feature LED-backlit screens.
Asus is also using LED-backlit screens in their newly launched U1F.
Aside from being much brighter and more vibrant, they also don't have the uneven illumination issues that sometimes plague other screens.
And it does also allow for a thinner screen.
I personally wouldn't be nervous about them "getting it right" - this isn't a new technology, as Sony has been using them for a while now; it's just that other companies have been slow to adopt them.
-Zadillo
Still, anything to lower my energy bill and decrease my energy footprint would be nice! I hope to see LED screens in all their displays by this time next year.
I just bought my MBP in early January.
This will make me wanna sell mine, take a big loss and buy a new one.
## If it makes you feel any better, I just ordered a 17" MBP today. I would have liked to have waited until WWDC where it is pretty obvious there is going to be an update to Santa Rosa, etc, but alas...I need it now.
Why not wait until at least(!) penryn?...*that* will be a significant upgrade.
longer life-span of luminescent material
broader range of the color spectrum (98% of NTSC)
more consistent brightness
more environmentally friendly
it seems to be one of those technologies that doesn't have a downside.
New enclosure in anodized black, user-replaceable HD, mag latch, and santa rosa platform please
Screen spec etc like these:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/
dont forget blu-ray, i want my blu-ray, with a desktop replacement high end gpu.
Indeed. Normally you'd expect some sort of tradeoff somewhere (i.e. it's brighter but colors are less rich, or it lasts longer but it isn't as bright).