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[quote] Q: Bigger iBook displays? - 5:30 PM 11/25 - Q&A
Reader V.S. Moore wrote in with this question.
Hi. Any rumors about whether apple intends to put a 13.x-inch screen in the current iBook? It looks like there's enough space around the current 12.1-inch screen to bump it up to the next size. The current iBook's screen size is a big issue for me. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Good news! With the prices of flat panel displays -- particularly smaller models -- dropping precipitously, Apple hopes to increase the iBook's display size to 13.3 or 13.7 inches in mid-2002, in roughly the same time-frame that it will be increasing the Powerbook G4's wide-aspect display to a whopping 16 inches and perhaps even at long last introducing a flat-panel consumer desktop iMac.
This will likely coincide with the introduction of the G4 processor to the consumer Mac lines as well -- so these upgrades should pack quite a wallop. However, given that these new Macs are more than six months off, one shouldn't be making any plans based around them just yet.
Oh, and for those curious about screen resolution, Apple plans to stick with 1024x768 for the iBook through 2002. The 16-inch Powerbook G4 may get 1600x1024 resolution depending on how display prices move in the next 3-4 months.
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Although I hesitate to believe anything that comes off the MOSR presses, they pose an attractive possibility. Would it be unduly expensive to make the iBook with a larger screen, without changing the overall shape and general size?
[quote] Q: Bigger iBook displays? - 5:30 PM 11/25 - Q&A
Reader V.S. Moore wrote in with this question.
Hi. Any rumors about whether apple intends to put a 13.x-inch screen in the current iBook? It looks like there's enough space around the current 12.1-inch screen to bump it up to the next size. The current iBook's screen size is a big issue for me. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Good news! With the prices of flat panel displays -- particularly smaller models -- dropping precipitously, Apple hopes to increase the iBook's display size to 13.3 or 13.7 inches in mid-2002, in roughly the same time-frame that it will be increasing the Powerbook G4's wide-aspect display to a whopping 16 inches and perhaps even at long last introducing a flat-panel consumer desktop iMac.
This will likely coincide with the introduction of the G4 processor to the consumer Mac lines as well -- so these upgrades should pack quite a wallop. However, given that these new Macs are more than six months off, one shouldn't be making any plans based around them just yet.
Oh, and for those curious about screen resolution, Apple plans to stick with 1024x768 for the iBook through 2002. The 16-inch Powerbook G4 may get 1600x1024 resolution depending on how display prices move in the next 3-4 months.
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Although I hesitate to believe anything that comes off the MOSR presses, they pose an attractive possibility. Would it be unduly expensive to make the iBook with a larger screen, without changing the overall shape and general size?
puhlease! Not going to happen. I'll wager meader's left testicle on it. iBook could get 13.3 to nicely fill out the current enclosure, but if they keep the current res, you don't really gain much. A better update would include support for higher resolutions externally -- if not outright spanning. Say 1600x1200 on an external display with the iBook LCD turned off. That'd be pretty good. The TiBook would, in that case, still retain enough of an advantage as it is capable of outright spanning (two displays -- the 15.2" LCD and an external monitor)
