Oh and I hate glossy with a passion.
Its cheap and tacky and does rubbish color representation.
Please matt option PLEASE.
Its cheap and tacky and does rubbish color representation.
Please matt option PLEASE.
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Well, sort of cool and sort of lame. At least if Apple does keep one of the current Macbooks at a $999 price the refurbs should go down to $799 and my Mom will be able to afford one and stop calling me to fix her Toshiba.
Not having a DVD burner in ANY computer standard these days is inane, though. Hopefully they rectify that.
EDIT: RE: glossy. I love my glossy iMac. I wasn't sure about it at first but unless you are doing print work or something that requires perfect color accuracy, everything looks better on the bright glossy/glass display.
Not having a DVD burner in ANY computer standard these days is inane, though. Hopefully they rectify that.
EDIT: RE: glossy. I love my glossy iMac. I wasn't sure about it at first but unless you are doing print work or something that requires perfect color accuracy, everything looks better on the bright glossy/glass display.
Well, if you frequently work with black backgrounds you don't get that kind of benefit.
thanks for clearing that up then.....
But the ACD's are still gorgeous
(only that would make me pay the difference over a dell.... sorry, i'm really picky about style and design )
I would imagine this would not be the case--the (9300m) low end range of a newer generation will likely remain behind the 8600m. Does Tom's Hardware (I don't even know if they still do that) or anything have benchmarks on this sort of thing yet?
I'm so unhappy with what I have read here regarding the new apple products.
I don't feel happy like I was yesterday. I guess my expectation was too high.
I don't feel happy like I was yesterday. I guess my expectation was too high.
I didn't mean it wrong in way way. It's just what my mother used to tell me years and years ago when I wouldn't eat my veggies. I wasn't sure how many people would get that joke, but now I feel better for clarifying it.
Backwards thinking...companies NEED to put the new, fancy aspects into their Pro and high-end lines because they want to drive people to the higher price point.
And to be completely honest, I would say that the majority of MBP users are NOT using it for photography, video editing, etc. Apple knows this.
This is why I bought my parents and iMac. It was their first mac and I haven't had a repair call since
Only a few remote desktop thru iChat connections to show them around the computer. Its great.
well only glossy means i'll carefully look at it. i hate glossy and if i'm not positively surprised by the screen my PB G4 will have to do for another year or so.
If you're interested in getting a multi-input/multi-use monitor, the Dell offers the best price/performance. I wouldn't mind the new Dell 30" with decent scaler when the price is around 1,000
Man, you guys certainly know how to complain about an item that hasnt even been released or announced yet.
The difference between Matte and Glossy screens is not that large. It's like the 2g iPhone screen versus the 3g screen... people complain out their rear ends, but in the long run, people just learn to accept the new changes. I really doubt a glossy or matte only screen would keep many people from upgrading.
The difference between Matte and Glossy screens is not that large. It's like the 2g iPhone screen versus the 3g screen... people complain out their rear ends, but in the long run, people just learn to accept the new changes. I really doubt a glossy or matte only screen would keep many people from upgrading.
GREAT PIC!!
I'm not really enjoying the glossy screen and the black bezel around the screen.. perhaps it will change my mind when I see it in person..
Not to mention the few applications, like Aperture or Final Cut, that only work on OSX... Retraining a whole staff from Aperture to Lightroom until they are as productive with the later is very expensive...
Also, there is the problem of platform lock. If I want to target the iPhone, I *have* to use MacOS X in order to use the SDK. There is no alternative there. If not, I would just avoid spending $2000 on a laptop and use my much more powerful (and less expensive) custom-built PC for that purpose...
And the Hackintosh is not an option either. You can't rely on this kind of solution for productive work, where even a half day of "problems" can cost you a lot of money...
make that 6 hours and 20 minutes - let's not forget that Jobs will be talking about iPod sales, all the new features of Leopard, the 2050 countries in which the iPhone is now sold, the iPhone's new killer feature (auto-correction that can be disabled, in stores by Christmas for an upgrade price of 10$), how well the NBC HD series are selling in the one country where they are available (but which, incidentally, is the only one that Apple gives a crap about) BEFORE there'll be any kinds of announcements of new notebooks that will be available in the US next week and in Europe before Christmas.
Maybe it will look better in person, but I would hate for them to have black keys on the Pro.. I see that on PC laptops everyday. Personal preference. I was thinking about upgrading, but if these rumors are true then I will stick to with my black Macbook. It has been great.
So . . . is the implication that matte MacBook Pros present a bigger service problem than glossy's?
Is there no expectation that Apple is market driven? If there is a market for matte MacBook Pros, then one would expect Apple would be wanting to cash in on that demand. Maybe a vocal market in MacRumors and other channels will get Apple's attention.
that's the very reason why we never went with Aperture. While we all prefer working on Mac OS, we'd never settle for a solution that isn't available on other platforms.