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why the new 13" macbook pro is a no buy

U watch mkvs on your mac?
What happens when you try to play 23.976 fps content on a display that refreshes itself 24.000 times per second? You get a repeated frame approximately every 40 seconds to synchronize the source frame rate with the display frame rate. That repeated frame appears to your eyes as judder in motion, particularly evident in scenes involving a panning camera.
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Only affects 13" mbp with integrated gpu.
 
I watch movies quite a lot on mine in 720p and haven't noticed this ONCE??

I FEEL ROBBED BY APPLE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR OPENING MY EYES TO THIS FACT.

in all seriousness though, if one frame is repeated every 40 seconds, and there is 24 frames in a second.. whats the big deal?
 
That's actually really annoying if you're a movie buff. Thanks for the heads-up.
 
Would this actually be noticeable to the average person? Especially on a 13" screen? I'm doubtful.
 
Um, I watched a movie the other day and it was fine.
I happen to lurve this 13" Macbook Pro. :p
 
all these comments made me laugh
I'm a big apple fan myself(got ipod, ipad and a mbp)
how many of you guys watch movies on your macs?
I do and 4me the issue on new basemodel is a deal breaker

That repeated frame appears to your eyes as judder in motion, particularly evident in scenes involving a panning camera.
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bigjobby said:
but if one was a movie buff, wouldn't they be watching films on a large screen TV or in a cinema? :rolleyes:
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macbook pro(big Plex fan myself) + large tv screen + good speakers with an amp =awesome home cinema :cool:
 
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So approx. once every 40 seconds, you'll notice a slight judder, IF the scene playing at that moment happens to involve a lot of panning. If not, you may not notice this at all. Sounds catastrophic.
 
Yep, I totally base my buying decisions on a tiny technical obscurity that only affects movies in extremely specific circumstances and only matters if you've shelled out the $$$ for a TV that can natively do 23.976fps instead of upscaling to 60hz like the LCD in the MBP will. Sure I spend 8+ hours a day on it *coding*, but movies are TOTALLY the most important part!

/snark off
 
Well I happen to love my new MBP, but thanks for trying to rain on my parade. :eek:
 
I don't buy mbp primarily to watch movie on it. I got 47" TV for that.
This glitch will probably hold 0.00001% of the people back from buying the 13"
 
Very interesting - note that there is a software fix that improves it (but does not fix it). Definitely worth installing.

Not sure if that is a driver update or something else?
 
Kauai said:
Well I happen to love my new MBP, but thanks for trying to rain on my parade. :eek:
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I'm with you. On any internet product forum there's always going to be one that finds some absolutely inane reason for justifying not purchasing something and the OP is ours :)
 
Ccrew said:
I'm with you. On any internet product forum there's always going to be one that finds some absolutely inane reason for justifying not purchasing something and the OP is ours :)
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Well, using an ancient gpu is the real issue.
 
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