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More Apple Notebook Details: Clickable Glass Trackpad, GPUs, Pricing

NovapaX said:
What competition exactly are you talking about? Acer? :confused:
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Dude, please read my posts. I said Dell + other major brands..Samsung, LG they all have reasonably priced albeit their lowest end 24" monitors for less than $400 USD.

If you give it a chance, these monitors are fine for regular use.
 
Four and a half hours till we know if Apple will let us (me) down. :D Gogo fancy aluminum MacBooks with LED display, black keyboard AND FireWire. :p
 
KALLT said:
Four and a half hours till we know if Apple don't let us (me) down. :D Gogo fancy aluminum MacBooks with LED display, black keyboard AND FireWire. :p
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yeah, but when will the start shipping them?
I need one VERY VERY soon!
My current macbook 2.16 2GB is outdated, I need a high config MBP
 
Sorry guys but I have many glossy screens under many lighting conditions and the only time I see glare is when the computer is off. Otherwise I see bright, crisp, sharp contrasty text and images.


Give me glossy any day of the week!
 
Gerbo said:
i sincerely hope it is not glossy only. that would really upset me:(
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Ditto.

I am going to get a new laptop (because my PowerBook recently died), but depending on what other features are announced, I may go for one of the current models.
 
consoleboi said:
Dude, please read my posts. I said Dell + other major brands..Samsung, LG they all have reasonably priced albeit their lowest end 24" monitors for less than $400 USD.

If you give it a chance, these monitors are fine for regular use.
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Not just fine, they're often better too. When Dell's 30" monitor was introduced, at roughly half the price of Apple's Cinema 30", it turned out that both were using LCD panels by LG, but Dell used a newer generation with higher contrast and sharper image.
 
Big difference between a 'Glossy' laptop screen and a big sheet of glass on top of glossy screen.

Got an iMac and MacBook Air at work. Air Glossy, not a problem... iMac killer reflections... Particularly on the black border.

Please Apple: No Glass! (Aint it heavy too?)
 
Hey, calm down!

JR is a faker: remember the picture he sent a day before the nano release?

It was not even real! Look at 9to5mac
 
I didn't realize when they said aggressively priced they meant aggressively high compared to competitors!
 
adc are just average but the price is in eizos league...
if u really want a "pro" display i guess there is no brand better than eizo
 
ju5tin81 said:
Big difference between a 'Glossy' laptop screen and a big sheet of glass on top of glossy screen.

Got an iMac and MacBook Air at work. Air Glossy, not a problem... iMac killer reflections... Particularly on the black border.

Please Apple: No Glass! (Aint it heavy too?)
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Yea, glass is heavy. I doubt that they'll use glass, especially for something that's going to be bouncing around in a bag.
 
its all 2 confusing...
all claims their sources to be true and than they are fake -_-
and its really funny any chinese has a mb/mbp case at home
 
grue said:
Two words:

Colour. Accuracy.

Or really, the lack thereof.
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I disagree, to get the matte finish they have to add it, thus pretty much covering your clear color with a film, making it more washed out.
I think the same will apply to accuracy.

Now having to deal with reflections...thats a different beast, but most people begin to see past them after heavy use, and don't notice them.
 
The new trackpad sounds awesome but no matte screen would seriously throw a spanner in the works for me. I might end up having to run blimming Vista on a Vaio or something. *wail*

The reflections have really bugged me when I've used my sister's glossy MacBook. I'm sat in a cafe with a window behind me or under a light trying to do some serious writing or video editing and all I can see is my big face reflected?! Is that a mark on the screen? No, it's a frakking pot plant! Even watching TV reflections bug the hell out of me. Gragh!

Okay. Trying not to get annoyed until I know for sure because I'm going to look mighty silly otherwise. (Too late.)
 
Anuba said:
Not just fine, they're often better too. When Dell's 30" monitor was introduced, at roughly half the price of Apple's Cinema 30", it turned out that both were using LCD panels by LG, but Dell used a newer generation with higher contrast and sharper image.
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sorry consoleboi, but I was not aware of the above fact (?) really thought the ACD's were comparable to eizo's and professional samsungs
 
Brian Hickman said:
Historically, Apple's stock price has dropped on media event days. The typical "Buy on Rumor, Sell on News" rule holds true for Apple. Yesterday's rally had nothing to do with lower priced laptops. Apple moved inline with the rest of the market (maybe 1-2% better because Apple is still pretty cheap when you look at its financials).

Hickman
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I realize that and I understand the history behind it, however, yesterday afternoon Forbes published a report talking about cheaper laptops and how it was going to spur growth and then Apple outperformed the overall market by 3% in the last hour and a half of trading. Of course I still expect it to gain today based on the overall market (Nikkei went up 14% on Tuesday) but not as much as it would if Apple were to introduce a "game changer" at a lower price point.
 
antominus said:
The geforce 9400M is a hybrid SLI configuration of a 9100 integrated and a 9300 dedicated.
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wrong

It's the not-yet-released MCP79, whose IGP is considered to have a power between 9300M and 9400M, it's not the existing MCP73 which is ~9100M.
consoleboi said:
Dude, please read my posts. I said Dell + other major brands..Samsung, LG
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as well as Iiyama or ViewSonic
consoleboi said:
If you give it a chance, these monitors are fine for regular use.
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Some of them are also very good for pro use, they don't have nec's side protections or anything, but once calibrated they'ver got near-perfect colors (and some builders have even started calibrating them in-house, so you don't have to calibrate them yourself).

And really, NEC and Eizo are in another category but Apple's screen are right there, they're absolutely nothing special. We'll see for the new ACD, but the previous ones were nothing to be impressed with.
 
See, if they did this sort of thing that they're doing with the MBP's, I wouldn't call foul. Macbooks and Macbook Airs can be Apple's little playground for trying out new features...glossy displays, multitouch pads, whatever. They're consumer laptops, if they want to offer strange new features, they're welcome to.

But.

You. Do. Not. Touch. My. Pro. Line. I hope a lot of these rumors are false about the glossy-only screen, as that would make it a no-go for designers and photographers who need the color accuracy. Although to be fair, a laptop screen is not the best tool for color accuracy in the first place; a dedicated, calibrated desktop monitor would be best. But still! It seems like Apple are shoving every little "cool" idea that they can into this new Pro lineup, and it is going to bite them in the ass hard when none of their creative-industry customers deign to purchase them. It's a trend that began with the over-gloss unnecessary additions they made in 10.5, and I now see continuing in horrid fashion.

Get your **** together Apple, and realize that you have different lineups for a reason. They cater to different markets.
 
Does anyone else dislike the black keyboard? I didn't like it on the Air and I don't like it on this either. Seems out of place.
 
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