powerbook new screen resolution
Is the new screen resolution on the 667 and 800 powerbook G4 too small? Can anyone let me know if they have seen it and think that it is too small and fonts etc are tiny. The new ones have increased resolution at 1280-by-854.
This is the resolution I am enquiring about as to its smallness.
I went to see it in a store on display - It looked impratical and rediculously small. I would like to know anyones thoughts.
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This is the resolution I am enquiring about as to its smallness.
I went to see it in a store on display - It looked impratical and rediculously small. I would like to know anyones thoughts.
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Well, I'm sure this is the first time I've read that kind of comment on the new resolution. I think it's great - and if you spend any amount of time working on one, you'll start to appreciate how nice the extra workspace is. Definitely not too small at all.
Some people like even higher 1400x1050/1440x1080 or 1600x1200 15"LCD, even 14"! (for the former)
I think that's just too small for a 15", at least under current OSes/video cards.
If I run my 17" CRT (about 16" vis) @ 1280x1024, everything just looks too small. 1152x864 looks just right, 1024 looks better for badly formatted web pages/text -- annoying small fonts that my browser won't let me change.
LCD's do look a lot crisper than CRT's, so they could probably stand a bit more pixel density before getting too squinty. I think Apple's choice is just about right for a 15" display. Given that it's a little wider and shorter than 4:3 15"ers they could probably stand to go into the 1440x960 range, but I bet it looks pretty good already (as far as pixel size goes).
Reports say the new display also looks brighter than the old 1152 unit.
If you need it, and have the cash, go ahead, I think you'll like it -- Though, I might be inclined to advocate a wait and see approach. Tech news has produced a lot of rumbling from analysts, investors, suppliers, buyers... industry followers/insiders, generally, that LCD production is set to ramp up big time by the end of '02. LCD prices could fall dramatically. Apple is ussually slow to adopt a price drop, but seeing as how they bumped the prices of the iMac -- and the PowerBook (it went back to previous levels when the DVI books came out) -- they may be inclined to drop prices sooner rather than later.
I love the res!
I love the new keyboard (snappy,tight and tactile)
My iSub and Soundsticks hate the new Ti 667 (don't know why yet...)
And now for the Wolfenstein test! :0)
I owned a Ti 400 (1st gen) and a Ti 550 (sedond gen)
Anyone know the Apple internal codename for these new 2002 TiBooks? Mercurury and Onyx are the other 2 Ti rev codenames...
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Anyone know the Apple internal codename for these new 2002 TiBooks? Mercurury and Onyx are the other 2 Ti rev codenames...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think it's ivory. Strange about your soundsticks. I have the same computer as you, and they work fine, actually seem louder off of the TiBook than they were off of an iMac.
I think the new resolution is a bad move
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I think that puts you in a very small minority.
here you will see a font called Standard used - font site 8 - a flash pixel acurate font. I believe that the new screen resolution for the powerbook is a absolutly rubbish and too small becuase of pixel size 8 fonts embedded in Flash..unlike html where the user can increase font size through browser preferences.
Check out my clients at kittylitterdesign.com and you'll see I am far from designing kittylitter!!!
Oh and just to recap - the new resolution is a terrible terrible move by Apple - I am amazed no one else agrees????
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<strong>I haven't seen the new TiBooks' screen res, but it seems to me you all are going to have horrible vision in the future with reading such small text.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's what my parents said before I got my iBook, because some people think 1024x768 is too small on a 12" screen. Your eyes get used to it. I'm sure it's the same thing with the Ti's resolution.
<strong>Is anyone here a professional web designer? If so can you tell me if the new Powerbook resolution is not good for deigning in - reason beign is that flash pixel specific fonts such as Hooge or Large 9 will surely look tiny! - I really think this new resolution is not a good move for graphics applications - I can forsee going for meetings with web clients and they say - huh what is that tiny text - Flash specific fonts acurate to the pixel will surely look tiny tiny now
I think the new resolution is a bad move
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I'm a web designer and I just got my 800MHz PowerBook in last week. I love the screen's resolution. I can have all of my favorite photoshop pallets open at the same time without covering up the image I'm working on. The screen is very sharp and I have no trouble reading 9pt type.
For doing presentations you can always switch to a lower resolution if you want, although it will not be as sharp.
Apple did a good job on this one -- for a change
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My latest site design is <a href="http://www.watkins-syndicate.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.watkins-syndicate.co.uk</a> for Lloyds of London.
here you will see a font called Standard used - font site 8 - a flash pixel acurate font. I believe that the new screen resolution for the powerbook is a absolutly rubbish and too small becuase of pixel size 8 fonts embedded in Flash..unlike html where the user can increase font size through browser preferences.
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I checked your site out on my my new PowerBook and you are right -- although I can still read it, the type is too small. But the type is also too small on the 20" and 16" monitors hooked up to my other computers (I always run things at fairly high resolutions).
That is the problem of using fixed sized fonts on the web.
Just curious, what resolution/monitor-size combination did you design the site for?
alcimedes