Your perfect laptop?

[Dark Void]

Going to jump into the crossfire here and offer my idea of a perfect laptop.

I'd like a Sager that runs OS X. Two heatsink vents at the back, integrated Onkyo speakerbar and subwoofer as most of them have, RGB backlit keyboard, 1080P IPS panel, at least a GTX 960M. Basically an existing Sager that could run OS X - and have Windows just for some oldschool nostalgic gaming.

It's made up, but yeah, pertains I suppose.

 

[Splitbolt]

Splitbolt, I agree that picture shows the MBA screen is indeed more blurry than the external monitor. I still absolutely love my MBA. It works flawlessly for me. Ultimately, right now you cannot have the best of both world's lol you can either get light weight and better battery with the MBA or you can better screen, faster, and much heavier with the MBP. Personally, the light weight and better battery was more important than a better screen. I carry my laptop everywhere for school and work and it is imperative I have a light weight, battery efficient, laptop. Even if the screen is not the best.

I'm in the same boat as you. I love the MBA for so many reasons that the poor display alone wasn't enough to make me get something different, especially when I use an external monitor so often.

 

[motrek]

Yet again you are being willful ignorant. I took a picture just like you asked me to, that picture clearly shows the MBA monitor to show the image much blurrier than the external monitor. As I said in that post, and I quote "It's very hard to see in a picture, it's worse in real life. But this picture shows the difference.".

Again, the picture I posted clearly shows how the MBA display is worse, it's just that it is actually a larger difference in real life.
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Like I said before, if "[the difference is] very hard to see in a picture" then how could there possibly be worlds of difference between the monitors?

And again, your interpretation of the picture isn't evidence of what you think it is. Whatever you're perceiving as "blurriness" in this nature photograph can easily be (and almost certainly is) a result of differences of screen resolution and how the pictures are scaled to fit said screen resolutions.

Looking at the picture again, I see an image that's sharp enough that even with the low resolution of the photograph, I can more or less make out the pixels of the icons in the top right corner. The wifi icon, battery icon, etc.

So my interpretation of your same picture is that the image is extremely sharp and not blurry at all.

Of course, if you have a digital signal going into an LCD panel, this makes perfect sense, because it's literally physically impossible for the image to be blurry. The digital signal is perfectly synchronized and each pixel in the panel is controlled independently.

Displays are considered blurry when the colors of the pixels spill into neighboring pixels. This was a common problem with CRTs where the electron beams often didn't line up perfectly with the grilles, and then still a problem when people were sending analog VGA signals to LCD displays, since analog signals can't be synchronized perfectly.

But the idea that you're describing the MBA screen as blurry when that's a physical impossibility, that alone should seriously call into question your opinions about screen quality.

 

[Splitbolt]

Even though all of us who look at it see that it's blurry, it can't be blurry because... Science!

 

[motrek]

Even though all of us who look at it see that it's blurry, it can't be blurry because... Science!

Look closely at the one-pixel-wide outline around your battery icon in the upper right. If you can see that clearly, what's your explanation for other stuff being "blurry"?

 

[Saturn1217]

The 13" Air is certainly as close to the perfect laptop as I've had so far. And for me better than the 13" rMBP or new rMB.

But for perfect:
keep the 12hr battery life which is my favorite feature
16gb ram option
512gb ssd
smaller bezels - I wish the current MBA was the same footprint as the 13" rMBP
2.8lbs - basically just no heavier than it is now. A little bit lighter would be nice.
lose the wedge and just make the computer physically more compact (see above)
And if they can put a retina or otherwise nice IPS screen in there without compromising weight, performance and battery life I will take it but i'm very happy with the current screen.

Edit: Oh and a matte screen option and/or keep the glass away. I HATE the glass on the MBPs.

 

[SSD-GUY]

11 Air is perfect for me, I wish the screen was a little bigger and sharper, but all in all it's the perfect package.

However, if the 12' MB came with a better keyboard and even just one more port, I would be all over that.

 

[Reality4711]

Seems to me that a lot has been written but little contributed to the OPs purpose.
Perfect laptop?
Possible now or near future:- Retina type display,skinny case, no sharp edges, multiple colours/finishes.
SSD hard drive at 1GBs read&write, 16gb ram (min),provided charge/multiport adaptor.
GPu switchable from power saving to boosted for 4K external display. Latest or better CPU.
Ultimate wifi&phone continuity-compatibility, multiple cameras and microphones for
groupchats/meetings.
12 hr battery minimum and 1 hour full charge. All sizes to select from with 30 day change mind
on first purchase.

Hows that

Sharkey

 

[MacBoook160]

Seems to me that a lot has been written but little contributed to the OPs purpose.
Perfect laptop?
Possible now or near future:- Retina type display,skinny case, no sharp edges, multiple colours/finishes.
SSD hard drive at 1GBs read&write, 16gb ram (min),provided charge/multiport adaptor.
GPu switchable from power saving to boosted for 4K external display. Latest or better CPU.
Ultimate wifi&phone continuity-compatibility, multiple cameras and microphones for
groupchats/meetings.
12 hr battery minimum and 1 hour full charge. All sizes to select from with 30 day change mind
on first purchase.

Hows that

Sharkey

Under a $1000! Well, it's a dream, right?