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Are they collectively on crack @ Apple? This thing is Much Ado about Not Much. Personally I think the new MBP looks AWFUL, tech specs are kinda better but nothing mindblowing....i am amazed that this is all they could come up with
And no matte screen? boy, these people have gone absolutely mad! it's a sad day in history:mad:
 
lekun said:
Uh, or because glossy screens are in inventory because that is what 99% of people were buying.

I bought a matte MBP too, so don't shoot the messenger, but this thread is ridiculous.

First, there seems to be a lot of professionals who all of a sudden have a lot of time to spend reading inane rumor threads. ..........................................................................................................................................................................
(and if it seems disingenuous to call into question the professionals on this forum who have time to post, and then post myself - well all I can say is that the recession has hit hard, and I currently have a lot of free time).
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great post and i agree with most of it.

you however miss the point for consumers: i just happen to like my matte screen on my PB G4 and my Dell Latitude more than the glossy screen on my Lenovo thinkpad. I'm not a pro at all. I'm not gonna whine (well I do:eek:) over the glossy screen. I'll just delay my purchase and see if a matte option comes up on the horizon. If not and i can't get used to this glossy screen i will buy a cheaper MB instead of an expensive MBP. No big deal, no drama. Just hope they offer a matte option.

Most people are very pragmatic about this.
Not everyone being disappointed here on the forum is freaking out and whining and hyperventilating as your post suggests.
 
I too will be disappointed if it's glossy-only.

Not because I'm any sort of design professional, but because I like to sit out on my deck and play on my computer in the summer. The reflections from the glossy screens make this much less enjoyable.
 
sra. Aguirre said:
Are they collectively on crack @ Apple? This thing is Much Ado about Not Much. Personally I think the new MBP looks AWFUL, tech specs are kinda better but nothing mindblowing....i am amazed that this is all they could come up with
And no matte screen? boy, these people have gone absolutely mad! it's a sad day in history:mad:
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unless I dozed off, the event hasn't started. Get pissed in a couple hours, life is short.
 
Mac In School said:
I too will be disappointed if it's glossy-only.

Not because I'm any sort of design professional, but because I like to sit out on my deck and play on my computer in the summer. The reflections from the glossy screens make this much less enjoyable.
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Isn't there inserts that make glossy screens matte?
 
digitalfrog said:
DJ's care because many use Ableton or equivalent to do live performance and they need be able to see their screen without strobes all around them reflecting on the screen !!!!!!!
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Not to diss Djs but, are there really that many out there that actually care about specs? I mean yea they use alot of software, but do things like 2.1 ghz vs 2.4 ghz and matte vs glossy really matter that much?
 
nowonder24 said:
24" 1920x1200? That would be gigantic pixels.
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It's a completely standard 24" resolution (you'll hardly find better desktop resolutions until you go 30" AFAIK). Most people stand further from their desktop monitor than from laptop ones, so it works out fine on average.
 
lekun said:
You don't drop thousands of dollars in software, pre-existing hardware, and and unquantifiable amount of money in knowledge investment over a laptop screen finish. Quite hyperventilating.
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That might be true for die-hard Apple fans. But there are a lot of us who are waiting on the fence trying to decide if they will join Apple or not. Unless Apple intends to remain at a single digit market share forever on the OS competition, these people are an important target...
Many of these people have been dragged to the Apple world by the iPhone success.

I'm one of them. I have zero investment in Apple software, because I currently use Vista. Anyway, I'm mainly into development, and most of my tools are free and cross-platform. Likewise, for photography, I can convert my licenses to Apple without too much troubles.

What dragged me to the Apple world is that I'm platform agnostic for most of my work (Java and Ruby), that I use Linux almost on a daily basis and that I wouldn't mind using a "better Un*x". And, most of all, that I want to extend my skills to the iPhone, and you pretty much need a Mac for that.

However, Apple is not easy to like. After the whole NDA business on the iPhone SDK that looked very very bad to an outsider (Microsoft never pulled a stunt like that!), now the business of selling laptop that *are* very expensive with a feature forced on me that makes it hard to use as a true laptop.

At the price tag of the MBP, I would expect the laptop to be close to perfect, not to be something I will have to struggle with and get used to. I thought the selling point of Apple was it was the job of the computer to adjuste to the user. Otherwise, what was the point of the windows and mouse and visual GUI? After all, with enough work and pain, the users eventually adjusted to these amber or green ASCII terminals...

Who doesn't at least work on an external monitor at their desk anyway?
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If I only wanted to do that, I would buy a Mac Mini instead...
As a PC user, the MBP servers a double purpose : it's a door to MacOX *and* it's a laptop. This means that this will be the computer I use while away from home, and I don't carry a 24" LCD on my back...
 
hmmm...

if there is no matte and there isnt a huge improvement in hardware components in the new pro's, i am going to seriously think about getting an older Pro.
 
Mac In School said:
I think so, but I've never tried them. I currently have the matte MBP, so I haven't needed to try yet.
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I'm pretty sure there is. Anyways, this would do little if there was no where to insert it if the new screens are glass. :(

Other than that, I hope they are glass. I love my iPod Touch screen :D
 
there is no way those price points can be correct. If that's what Apple calls "more aggressive pricing", they are very mistaken.
 
Breegy said:
I'm pretty sure there is. Anyways, this would do little if there was no where to insert it if the new screens are glass. :(

Other than that, I hope they are glass. I love my iPod Touch screen :D
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What you could look into is http://www.zagg.com/invisibleshield/search/search.php?keyword=macbook
Use that as a Matte screen, also, keeps it from scratches. I have it on my iPhone, and it rocks. I'm soon to get it on a new MacBook/Pro.

Doesn't make it completely Matte, but it helps. I just love that it's easier to clean off than the regular glossy screen.
 
Breegy said:
Is it possible to make iPod/iPhone porn apps?
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Nope, daddy SJ explicitely bans it in the condition of use of his SDK. Just as he bans GPS routing softwares (no TomTom), softwares that loads other software (no Java) or even executes code (no Flash). Or, apparently, software that replaces an Apple application with a better alternative...
What was all the Mac launch in 1984 about? Something about Big Brother, right? Well, 24 years better, it seems like Apple wants to be the new IBM...

PS: Of course, you can still do porns as iPhone webapps... At least, until a firmware update starts filtering the Internet for your own good...
 
Say bye bye...
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