plugging an external display into a macbook

my 1ghz 12" pbg4 can do it, sure. but i can also run a 10k. doesn't mean i'm good at it.

in all my experience, perhaps the biggest gripe i have comes down to graphics on apple laptops. i'm not a gamer, but the few times i ran warcraft 3 on my machine frames would drop down to 5-10sec. quicktime movies routinely drop. forget about h.264.

i do a lot of photo work. not really photoshop intensive, but my average photo is a 6mp RAW. going through a library of only a couple hundred is quite an arduous experience when i'm in full screen mode. i'd like to move to aperture.

i'm tired of this kind of crap. i found delays, albeit not as significant, working on a dual g5. but at least aperture would run on that i suppose.

so i hear the graphics on the macbook aren't anything to jump for joy over, are they that poor? i was under the impression that even the new macbooks could trump the old powermac g5s. but for my work?

 

ah friggin hell.

mbp.... maybe i should just get an imac with some decent screen real-estate and save a few bucks in the process.

15" macbook pro is a bit obtuse to carry around.... but not really enough to feel like i have a comfortably large screen for photoshop/aperture.

i'd like to think apple plans to fill this gap they have with the 12" model sometime. sounds like a macbook is not a 12" pro, anyway you slice it. at least not with the current graphics card (or lack thereof) it is.... quite disappointing considering how gpu intensive the os alone is.