When will Apple adopt 16:9 screens?
Not that I want them to...it's just that I notice a lot of other manufacturers starting offer more and more notebooks with 16:9 displays. I've read that LCD panel makers are standardizing on this screen ratio because it's more cost effective for them. Where there's smoke there's usually fire and I'm curious what everyone thinks will be the time line for this transition? Fall?
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I really hope they don't though, because i'm gonna get less and less content on my screen when i'm writing essays and such.
It properly also depends on SJ view on it. If he is a 16:10 guy then we may never see 16:9 on Mac.
16:9 is great for a TV where you won't have editing tools to deal with. Computers and their monitors should not be primarily designed to watch TV but primarily designed as a tool which can do TV without loss.
Not that I want them to...it's just that I notice a lot of other manufacturers starting offer more and more notebooks with 16:9 displays. I've read that LCD panel makers are standardizing on this screen ratio because it's more cost effective for them. Where there's smoke there's usually fire and I'm curious what everyone thinks will be the time line for this transition? Fall?
By "cost effective" they probably mean that they can share the same fabs for both TV panels and computer panels.
Personally, I think the market is big enough to support more than one ratio.
The cinema displays were explicitly 16:10 so you could see 16:9 video for editing and have a few toolbars available for FCP or room at the bottom for QT Pro widgets. Steve said so when they were launched. Now why would someone want to restrict their screen physical dimensions so they cannot edit a full width/resolution stream without covering up part of the picture???
16:9 is great for a TV where you won't have editing tools to deal with. Computers and their monitors should not be primarily designed to watch TV but primarily designed as a tool which can do TV without loss.
Well said.
I hope Apple have in store new displays coming soon. Specially a larger than 30" display. For folks that design motion graphics or edit video/film content that would be a blessing.
It's about time.
Even though the amount of vertical resolution you are losing is significant going from 16:10 to 16:9 ... But hey, welcome to the HD world.
16:10 - the closest to Golden Ratio, 16:9, apart from being cost effective doesn't actually have any advantage.
It properly also depends on SJ view on it. If he is a 16:10 guy then we may never see 16:9 on Mac.
I'm curious as to when SJ went from a Matte guy to a Glossy guy.
I'm curious as to when SJ went from a Matte guy to a Glossy guy.
That's a good question.
After a walk through Best Buy the other day, just about all of the notebooks made from other manufacturers have a glossy display. Some of them are also framed in black. I was surprised just how many of them have moved to the 16:9 panels.
I am now more convinced that Apple is going to migrate their entire product line to the 16:9 display ratio soon, probably starting with the MacBook.
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I am now more convinced that Apple is going to migrate their entire product line to the 16:9 display ratio soon, probably starting with the MacBook.
I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that I can't afford to keep in this economy. I'm willing to let it go--cheap. If you are interested in helping out a fellow Mac user, then have your people get in touch with my people.
I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that I can't afford to keep in this economy. I'm willing to let it go--cheap. If you are interested in helping out a fellow Mac user, then have your people get in touch with my people.
No, it's more like, "Monkey see, monkey do."
I'm curious as to when SJ went from a Matte guy to a Glossy guy.
Probably when glossy screens became cheaper than matte, thus increasing his margins. It's all about the money.
I'm curious as to when SJ went from a Matte guy to a Glossy guy.
When his black and glass phase happened.
When his black and glass phase happened.
The look of Apple's notebooks closely resembles the look of the iPhone. I think it's a case of the dog waging the tail here. I am sure Apple is trying to milk the halo effect of the iPhone onto their Macs.
http://digitimes.com/news/a20090428PD209.html
Interesting article related to this on Digitimes:
http://digitimes.com/news/a20090428PD209.html
Count me in with the group that thinks that we'll be standardizing on 16x9
Thus if Apple goes above 24" on an iMac it'll be a 26" panel most likely.
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16:9 is only for movies, 16:10 is what apple generally uses.
Count me in with the group that thinks that we'll be standardizing on 16x9
Thus if Apple goes above 24" on an iMac it'll be a 26" panel most likely.
It will be 27" not 26, there will never be a mac ever (unless it's a TV) that is 16:9.
Then they might have to stop making all in ones and notebooks in the very near future. It doesn't matter what Apple's preferences are if 16:10 panels stop being made.
Add "this to the Apple will never..." list. They usually end up happening.
It will be 27" not 26, there will never be a mac ever (unless it's a TV) that is 16:9.
Actually it would most likely be 26" not 27" because most of the IPS panels are 26" inch though they do run at 1980x1200
NEC LCD2690WUXi
Planar PX2611W
LG W2600HP
Hazro HZ26Wi
I'm not aware of any IPS monitors over 26". I have a 27.5 Hannspree monitor that's 1980x1080 and definitely not IPS.