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If it's 60Hz, that's understandable -- but flicker pretty much vanishes by 75Hz, and 1024x768@85Hz is almost certainly possible with more or less any CRT you could find even as far back as 1998. All of my displays, from the 1999 Compaq to the 2004 Dell, are able to do 85Hz just fine. It looks great, and flicker free, and my eyes are sensitive enough to flicker that I can see car headlights and incandescent ligthbulbs flicker and certain flat panels (the one I have in mind is an Acer P191w that I still have) that blank the image on refresh (I forget the name) give me terrible eyestrain -- as do CRTs with short phosphor fades at 60Hz.
You know what I think I actually got exactly my ideal Mac in the 14" MBP. All I wanted was:
1. Something smaller than the 15" MBP I was dragging around.
2. Decent keyboard
3. Really nice screen
4. Decent battery life.
5. Doesn't burn my dick off after 5 minutes on my lap.
6. SD card hole
7. webcam that doesn't suck
8. Doesn't feel like it's made of poo.
9. Magsafe
1. Something smaller than the 15" MBP I was dragging around.
2. Decent keyboard
3. Really nice screen
4. Decent battery life.
5. Doesn't burn my dick off after 5 minutes on my lap.
6. SD card hole
7. webcam that doesn't suck
8. Doesn't feel like it's made of poo.
9. Magsafe
One of these for real would've been nice....Battle Mac
In my experience, 75 Hz is just enough to eliminate flicker on a small 14" or 15" CRT... but on a 17" CRT, I could still see faint flickering and went for 85 Hz, totally eliminating flicker. A friend's 19" CRT was running at 100 Hz and I could not see any flickering. The larger the CRT, the higher the refresh rate needs to be for flickering to disappear, and it also depends on how sensitive you are to flickering in general I guess.
So... how many Hz does Sony's 24" GDM-FW900 need?
I wonder how small a CRT you'd need to not notice flickering at 60 Hz... 9"? 5"? I guess PC users of yesteryear can be glad the BIOS/DOS text mode uses 70 Hz
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The Mac that I most desire currently is:
12" Macbook with updated design, but same basic size
-Apple Silicone
-Two TB ports
-Newer keyboard design
-Magsafe
-Great screen
-SD card slot would be gravy.
I'd actually love it if they kept the same basic design of the Powerbook 12" but made it much, much thinner.
12" Macbook with updated design, but same basic size
-Apple Silicone
-Two TB ports
-Newer keyboard design
-Magsafe
-Great screen
-SD card slot would be gravy.
I'd actually love it if they kept the same basic design of the Powerbook 12" but made it much, much thinner.
Although it’s not a perfect analogy, the 11-inch M1 iPad Pro with smart keyboard is the closest to the idea of a compact notebook now. It does have Apple silicon, TB, great keyboard and screen… and iPadOS ?
Got to say this. Been thinking about this all afternoon since my last post in this thread.
The 14" MBP is the best computer I have ever owned and used and I've owned and used more computers than the average person ranging from embedded microcontrollers to big Sun E10k's. I just absolutely love it to bits. It's really just about perfect.
Saying that it'll probably blow up or something now knowing my luck.
What I would give for a M1 Pro encased in a PowerBook G3 Pismo...
Completely agree. I love my 16" M1 Pro more than any Mac I've owned in recent years (easy given the last computer series I had was the 15" MBP's with keyboard gate from 2016-2018).
I also really loved the first generations of the MBP back in 2006-2007, reminiscent of the PowerBook G4 design. The 16" M1 Pro I am actually using now obviously draws heavily on design cues from the PowerBook era, which probably adds to why I love it.
Mac mini with a discrete GPU - the case is currently a lot of empty space, not enough for a video card tho, so it would need to be a little bigger or thicker.
That or the fabled xMac/headless iMac of yore - not sure we'll ever see anything close to that for a whole lot of reasons.
That or the fabled xMac/headless iMac of yore - not sure we'll ever see anything close to that for a whole lot of reasons.
I hope that is the next one.....MacMini Pro Pro/Max 4 USB-C, 2 USB-A, 2 Ethernet etc.
With an affordable Mac Display 30" - give us that now Apple. If not I'll buy an LG 30-32"
But I have been very satisfied with the 27" iMac 2013 that still are on my desk a long time.
Not so much the latest 2 yrs, and definitely not now, but it was a beast when I bought it.
With an affordable Mac Display 30" - give us that now Apple. If not I'll buy an LG 30-32"
But I have been very satisfied with the 27" iMac 2013 that still are on my desk a long time.
Not so much the latest 2 yrs, and definitely not now, but it was a beast when I bought it.
I spent many years in the IT industry servicing PCs and Macs. The easiest Macs to service and upgrade were the G4 PowerMacs. I loved them. So for me, a dream machine (desktop, that is) would have a simple latch to pop open the machine to upgrade or replace hard drives, RAM, and various cards.
That said, you know, you might laugh at me, but I loved the old PowerBook Duos. They were the lightest laptop ever made until Apple created the MacBook Air. If Apple magically converged the iPad and a laptop along with creating a beautiful and seamless docking station that'd be pretty sweet. Use the desktop version of Photoshop on an iPad out in the field, then dock it to have access to a big screen and full keyboard.
That said, you know, you might laugh at me, but I loved the old PowerBook Duos. They were the lightest laptop ever made until Apple created the MacBook Air. If Apple magically converged the iPad and a laptop along with creating a beautiful and seamless docking station that'd be pretty sweet. Use the desktop version of Photoshop on an iPad out in the field, then dock it to have access to a big screen and full keyboard.
H… ha… have you considered maybe resting your laptop a little closer to your knees?
Okay, beyond a Mac Pro that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.....
I was disappointed when Apple axed the 17" MacBooks Pros after 2011, and the 12" PowerBook G4 after 2005. I'm an absolute sucker for screen size, whether it's small or big, so, hear me out.
18" MacBook Pro. M-series Pro or Max chips as the only options; no baby Ms-- hell, not even the Pro. Max only. Three Thunderbolt controllers to give six TB3 ports. HDMI, SD reader, and Magsafe 3 as with the current MacBooks Pros. Ethernet in the charger like the M1 iMac-- better make it 10Gig. And then to top it all off, put it in Jet Black. Touch Bar optional.
12" MacBook. baby M chip. Put a Thunderbolt on each side instead of a TB and a HP jack. Perhaps thicken the chassis just a tad to slide the jack next to a TB port.
Though both of these would still be well out of my price bracket.
Bring back the Xserve, honestly. Imagine a half-depth 1U Xserve with dual or quad M1 Pro/Maxes.
I was disappointed when Apple axed the 17" MacBooks Pros after 2011, and the 12" PowerBook G4 after 2005. I'm an absolute sucker for screen size, whether it's small or big, so, hear me out.
18" MacBook Pro. M-series Pro or Max chips as the only options; no baby Ms-- hell, not even the Pro. Max only. Three Thunderbolt controllers to give six TB3 ports. HDMI, SD reader, and Magsafe 3 as with the current MacBooks Pros. Ethernet in the charger like the M1 iMac-- better make it 10Gig. And then to top it all off, put it in Jet Black. Touch Bar optional.
12" MacBook. baby M chip. Put a Thunderbolt on each side instead of a TB and a HP jack. Perhaps thicken the chassis just a tad to slide the jack next to a TB port.
Though both of these would still be well out of my price bracket.
Bring back the Xserve, honestly. Imagine a half-depth 1U Xserve with dual or quad M1 Pro/Maxes.
Yeah, they should have used blowers.
Dream machine for PPC Mac? Leopard to get Classic Mode. Release Snow Leopard for PPC, and finally, allow the G5's to natively boot macOS 9.