4:3 Screens on the New MacBook Pros?
Hi, I'm pretty new to this forum and know this is all pretty speculative but I'm wondering - is it just me, or do the recently leaked photos of the supposed new MacBook Pros look like the casing for a 4:3 screen? I've seen a couple of threads on these photos where a few folks raise the same question, but most seem obsessed with about the backlit logo issue.
Anyway, I'd be thrilled to see the return of the 4:3 screen - the 16:9 and 16:10 formats never made much sense to me for the purposes of a computer, as they force a lot of scrolling up and down on standard web pages - an annoyance that far outweighs any benefit of 16:9 that I'm aware of (I'm a movie freak, don't get me wrong, but prefer to watch movies on a big screen.)
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, and here's that image pasted below for reference's sake...
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles..._revealed.html
Anyway, I'd be thrilled to see the return of the 4:3 screen - the 16:9 and 16:10 formats never made much sense to me for the purposes of a computer, as they force a lot of scrolling up and down on standard web pages - an annoyance that far outweighs any benefit of 16:9 that I'm aware of (I'm a movie freak, don't get me wrong, but prefer to watch movies on a big screen.)
Thanks in advance for your thoughts, and here's that image pasted below for reference's sake...
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles..._revealed.html
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They are currently 16:10, if they change they'll be 16:9, not 4:3. This isn't the 90's you know.
And, to the point of my original post, that shell casing looks more like 4:3 to me, although my assessment is admittedly thoroughly unscientific...
I used to dislike the widescreen displays but you waste a lot of pixels watching 16:9 movies. You aren't really losing any pixels either - the old 4:3 ibook/powerbook 12" only went up to 1024 x 768 and the Macbook has 1280 x 800 pixels so it's still an improvement.
I would still like to see Apple offer higher resolutions on their laptops. 1680 x 1050 on the MBP and maybe 1440 x 900 on the MB. The 17" would get 1920 x 1080 or something by default.
Perhaps text would be hard to read for some people though and lowering the resolution to a non-native size might not look so nice. I think having more pixels is better than not enough though.
They won't be 4:3, I know that much.
They are currently 16:10, if they change they'll be 16:9, not 4:3. This isn't the 90's you know.
90s!
80s more like
4:3 is dead and gone.
if nothing else look at vistas gadget sidebar waste of space, and consider all the manufacturers that will be producing for "PCs"
and as someone pointed out on another thread 16:10 allows for a 16:9 movie plus controls.
you get more pixels in the vertical now anyway, than you used to, so of course its a win win
I would still like to see Apple offer higher resolutions on their laptops. 1680 x 1050 on the MBP and maybe 1440 x 900 on the MB. The 17" would get 1920 x 1080 or something by default.
Apple currently offer a BTO option for the 17" MBP of 1920x1200. I'd like to see 1920x1200 become standard on the 17" and a BTO option for the 15".
I'd like to see 1920x1200 become ? a BTO option for the 15".
Whoa! Squinty or what? The problem with 1920 x 1200 on a 15" screen is that it's not really high-enough to implement a resolution-independent GUI on, but with a standard GUI everything would be tiny. A more realistic hope is that 1680 x 1050 will become an option at 15" - don't count on it though as Apple have always been behind the curve when it comes to laptop display resolutions.
The problem with 1920 x 1200 on a 15" screen is that it's not really high-enough to implement a resolution-independent GUI on....
Huh? Resolution Independence does not require high resolution displays. I use it with 100dpi displays.
Huh? Resolution Independence does not require high resolution displays. I use it with 100dpi displays.
Really? Which OS? Once we hit displays that have at least 300 dpi, resolution independence becomes an exciting prospect.