17" PB is actually 17.125"
Maybe not a big issue. Just thought i'd point it out. I took an ad from the Wall street journal which features a real-size picture of the Lapzilla and measured the screen diagonally.
(It's freakin' huge!) And, as I said before, not too big a laptop. I cut it out and folded it and it seems pretty reasonable. Leave it to Apple to push the envelope.
(It's freakin' huge!) And, as I said before, not too big a laptop. I cut it out and folded it and it seems pretty reasonable. Leave it to Apple to push the envelope.
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Where I work we do QA on rulers and graph paper. How do you know accurate the graph paper is over 30cm?
<strong>How do you know your ruler is not off.
Where I work we do QA on rulers and graph paper. How do you know accurate the graph paper is over 30cm?</strong><hr></blockquote>
You might have a point there. Except I used an 18" ruler, and made sure both corners were tightly measured. As for the ruler being off...perhaps, but I really can't check 'cause I don't have any graph paper at work.
And in reply to icruise's post: I really doubt that the printout is off, because Apple could sue the Wall Street Journal for printing an off sized ad.
Apple lists the 17" iMac as 17"
Steve also said that the laptop uses the EXACT same LCD as the 17" iMac. i happen to have one in the lab here, and just got done measuring it. it is, without a doubt, larger than 17". in fact, 17.125" seems almost exactly right.
the laptop screen is likely larger than they say it is.
go figure. guess it goes to show that there's no substitute for actually checking this stuff in real life instead of taking someone's word for it.
-alcimedes
<strong>i should preface this by saying that i initially started this post to say that the new PowerBook was likely only 17". i believe i may be wrong, and that the original poster is correct.
Apple lists the 17" iMac as 17"
Steve also said that the laptop uses the EXACT same LCD as the 17" iMac. i happen to have one in the lab here, and just got done measuring it. it is, without a doubt, larger than 17". in fact, 17.125" seems almost exactly right.
the laptop screen is likely larger than they say it is.
go figure. guess it goes to show that there's no substitute for actually checking this stuff in real life instead of taking someone's word for it.
-alcimedes</strong><hr></blockquote>
Thank you alcimedes!!! Thanks for going through the trouble of actually measuring the screen.
I think the reason why they just said 17" is because of advertising/design purposes. In my design and copywriting classes in college teachers always used the acronym KISS (Keep It Simple, Students).
I guess 17" sounds impressive enough for the laptop and probably they didn't want to add the ".125" or "& 1/8" because it might get a little too complicated for their advertising copy. Furthermore, from a graphic standpoint, 17" is more aesthetically pleasing than 17.125" (that is , of course, only my opinion, and totally subject to anyone else's judgement).
I'm just surprised that they don't mention it in the tech specs, whereas the 15" and 12" PB's are clearly marked as 12.1" and 15.2". It might also be adequate to mention that these two models are advertised as ONLY 12" and 15".
If they catch this they'll probably change their specsheet pretty soon.