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Mac Pro Vs. Macbook Pro

zer0tails said:
Just trust me when I say when you have firewire, usb cables connected to it, speakers, dvi cable, ethernet lol it gets to be quite a pain to unhook it
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I can sympathize entirely! I was in the same spot you're in now. I bought a top-of-the-line PowerBook G4, excited about the portability. And the portability did pay off to an extent. But after a while I found that I kept it permanently tethered to my desk with a plethora of cables hanging off it, with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse attached. It was a good machine anyway and I stuck with it until it was time to upgrade. There was absolutely no doubt in my mind about buying a Mac Pro. The iMacs are too limiting. I already have 3 hard drives and just popped in 4 more GB of RAM, with a new video card on its way (though that decision came about in an unfortunate way — thankfully I kept my PBG4 as a backup machine).

I also used the lame "I'll be a pro someday" excuse for buying the Mac Pro while still in college — but I stand by my claim of the iMac being too limiting. Even with school work I made use of a fair amount of its power. Although I'm not making money from it, it's been well worth it for all the things it's enabled me to do, and it will last longer.

Jaymz said:
Or the coolant leakage with the higher end of the Mac Pro's predecessor - the PowerMac G5.
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Well, I could have told you back when those G5s came out there was going to be problems with the liquid cooling. 🙂 And irrelevant to the Mac Pro since it doesn't use that. But I understand the point you were making.
 
apfhexx: thanks for sympathizing! haha 😛 Popping in 3 hard drives just gets me all tingly and excited lol..but yeah..waiting until the need to upgrade like what sushi said makes perfect sense and i am going to try and follow it. It's hard with Apple stuff though..very hard.

Ok guys, enough with the glossy vs. matte debate. It's no understatement that the topic has been debated about hundreds of times on this forum.

By the way: I found the wikipedia article on matte displays quite bias!

The way I see things, glossy and matte is really up to the individual's preference. That's really all that matters, one may be better than the other at certain things etc. but what does that matter? As long as it is good for you is what matters. Not what is good for you is necessarily good for someone else.

Take me for example. I wouldn't want a glossy cinema display, and love the matte on mine. I however chose to get a glossy macbook pro.
 
zer0tails said:
apfhexx: thanks for sympathizing! haha 😛 Popping in 3 hard drives just gets me all tingly and excited lol..but yeah..waiting until the need to upgrade like what sushi said makes perfect sense and i am going to try and follow it. It's hard with Apple stuff though..very hard.

Ok guys, enough with the glossy vs. matte debate. It's no understatement that the topic has been debated about hundreds of times on this forum.

By the way: I found the wikipedia article on matte displays quite bias!

The way I see things, glossy and matte is really up to the individual's preference. That's really all that matters, one may be better than the other at certain things etc. but what does that matter? As long as it is good for you is what matters. Not what is good for you is necessarily good for someone else.

Take me for example. I wouldn't want a glossy cinema display, and love the matte on mine.
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Alright I agree, it should be discussed in another thread anyway
I however chose to get a glossy macbook pro.
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ewe 😉
 
tuffluffjimmy said:
Alright I agree, it should be discussed in another thread anyway

ewe 😉
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I believe in freedom of speech though..so go ahead if you want to 😉

Why do you dislike the glossy so much anyways tuffluffjimmy? Are you old skool? Or have you had to use it once and the glare was so bad.
 
zer0tails said:
I believe in freedom of speech though..so go ahead if you want to 😉

Why do you dislike the glossy so much anyways tuffluffjimmy? Are you old skool? Or have you had to use it once and the glare was so bad.
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My only computer is a Macbook and it suites me just fine, glossy screen and all. What I hate about it is the poor reproduction of color (me being a bit of a hobby photographer) It doesn't matter too much since I couldn't really use a laptop screen for photo editing, since they're only 6 bit. I have to hook my computer up to an external display with an 8 bit panel. What I'm a little upset about though is I planned to get an iMac, but they don't give a choice about glossy or matte, I just have to get glossy. So now I have to do a two monitor set up to have one matte display.
 
tuffluffjimmy said:
My only computer is a Macbook and it suites me just fine, glossy screen and all. What I hate about it is the poor reproduction of color (me being a bit of a hobby photographer) It doesn't matter too much since I couldn't really use a laptop screen for photo editing, since they're only 6 bit. I have to hook my computer up to an external display with an 8 bit panel. What I'm a little upset about though is I planned to get an iMac, but they don't give a choice about glossy or matte, I just have to get glossy. So now I have to do a two monitor set up to have one matte display.
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agreed the macbook's glossy screen is bad for any serious photography work. But then again it's 13" so external monitor is the clever choice.

You should see the glossys on the air and mbp though..they're much nicer
 
zer0tails said:
agreed the macbook's glossy screen is bad for any serious photography work. But then again it's 13" so external monitor is the clever choice.

You should see the glossys on the air and mbp though..they're much nicer
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They still have the same issue I'm complaining about. I love the Air and Macbook Pro screen, but given the choice I would always choose matte.
 
Hrududu said:
I'm in a similar situation with my MBP. Its basically lived its entire life on the desk and I've more recently got it hooked up to a display. I have always preferred desktops to laptops, but I think keeping the MBP is the best plan. I've already got a 12" Powerbook for going portable, but sometimes it is nice to have a larger and faster computer on the road. If I were to go all out on a nice desktop computer, I'd have to sell the MBP. Just keep it how you've got it and use it until you need something new.
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My life...

  • 12" PowerBook for ultraportablility
  • 15.4" MBP for power and main computer
  • 17" iMac for a work machine - though want to swap for ACD
  • MacMini at home for a media centre
  • 20" ACD for the MBP when at home, though I may keep the mini attached to it....
 
SnowLeopard2008 said:
dead wrong. matte screens have a special layer that makes the light reflect differently to reduce the glare and reflections. to make this simpler for you to comprehend this fast, here's a wikipedia article, specifically read near the second paragraph under Technology.

Glossy uses an optical coating, it doesnt affect the light from the display itself, while matte goes directly on the lcd panel and increases blur, reduces contrast, color intensity, and the viewing angle. to newbie photographers, I suppose this doesn't matter... but to me, it does.
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I guess you didn't read the Wikipedia article but it says this:
Disadvantages said:
Despite the perceived increase in the quality of glossy displays, they tend to exaggerate colors and shade, to the point in which they over-saturate and have poorer grayscale accuracy. This makes glossy displays unsuitable for people who seek to use their computers for graphics work which requires color accuracy.
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So no, they are not more natural than matte.
 
BlaqkAudio said:
I guess you didn't read the Wikipedia article but it says this:
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🙂

BlaqkAudio said:
So no, they are not more natural than matte.
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Agree.

I was looking at an MBA, but disliked the glossy screen. So now I have a MBP 15 with 4GB of RAM and 500GB HD. Sweet.

When looking at the MBA, I was thinking of an MBA and new desktop (iMac or Mac Pro). Sure glad that I went with the MBP instead of a desktop (iMac or Mac Pro) and MBA. Now I have everything in one place which is handy for my scatter brain. 😛
 
I'm kind of in the same boat. I have a Windows PC for gaming, but when I want to work with Aperture on my MBP i have to unhook everything (kb, mouse, monitor, network, +firewire drives), and it's just a pain really. I have considered moving my Gaming PC somewhere else and just getting a Mac Pro + ACD to use as my main workstation...I could even do some light gaming on it.
 
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