new macbook pro screen res

[emteebristol]

Number of pixels on a MacBook Air 11" screen: 1,049,088 (1366x768)
Number of pixels on a MacBook Pro 13" screen: 1,024,000 (1280x800)

11" Air > 13" Pro

This makes no sense to me

 

[Evil Spoonman]

If you picked the MBA over the MBP you dont need a pro grade laptop.

what exactly is "work visual work" and how does that benefit from lower resolution?

Work visual work is me typing work too many times, it has been corrected. Visual work is work that depends on colour accuracy. The 13" has enough resolution. It will do. The Air has horrible screen quality. It will not do.

1) I've used both Mac & PC Laptops for years. For some reason Apple has lagged behind the industry for a long time. One of the reasons I bought a new 15" 2010 because they _finally_ claimed to offer hi-res. I was greatly disappointed (yet not surprised) to find as usual, Apple mislead us, offering only a medium resolution. It's my only major complaint with Apple, they make up stories and claims of superiority to suit them. They cannot be trusted to deliver what they say they do.

Apple is highly successful in misleading the public, without ever being held accountable. That's what master marketing and windfall profits do. They give Apple a pass, just like Michael Vick essentially got off scott free for his vicious and criminal enterprise.

Apple only misleads you if you don't pay attention. It's not like they don't post their specs or something...

You've made it nearly impossible to refute your logic by accusing anyone with a different opinion than your own of being motivated by brand loyalty.

I also have several years of experience using both mobile platforms, professionally and for personal use. Apple offers a 17" model with a 1920x1200 resolution, more than fair for a display of that size. They offer a standard resolution (which you'd find on the majority of displays in this screen size, by many PC manufacturers) on their base 15" models, with an available upgrade to 1680x1050.

Anything higher than a 1680x1050 resolution on a 15" display would be uncomfortable to use. I'll give you that it's highly subjective, but as an individual who works in the web development and multimedia industries and enjoys higher resolution for productivity reasons, even I find anything past that starts to get silly.

This information is right on. There is a point where there are "enough" pixels, and driving for colour accuracy is more important. There is also such thing as too fine a dot pitch to be comfortable (at least until we get resolution independence).

Number of pixels on a MacBook Air 11" screen: 1,049,088 (1366x768)
Number of pixels on a MacBook Pro 13" screen: 1,024,000 (1280x800)

11" Air > 13" Pro

This makes no sense to me

The 11" Air has a ****** panel too.