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The next 17"?
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(This is just meant for discussion about screen resolutions, not for saying that there is a 17" coming soon or that the current 17" is not good.)
The 17" is the top of the line PowerBook, likely meant for video & audio professionals. Wouldn't it make more sense for the 17" to have a screen that fit the 16:9 ratio? Wouldn't it also make sense for the 17" to have 1080 horizontal pixels (isn't this what HDTV has)? By my calculations, that would put the resolution at 1920x1080. That would make for an incredible display. This shouldn't be unreachable - PC laptops are doing 1600x1200 on 15.1" screens, Dell goes even higher on a 15.4" screen.
There has been a lot of discussion on here about how the 15" going Al would hurt the 17". With a 1920x1080 resolution, the 15" could get a resolution bump when it goes Al (as MacWhispers suggests) without hurting the 17".
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It's unlikely Apple will change the aspect ratio. It's not a TV, afterall. I agree with you that a slightly higher resolution would be nice. I have a 1280x854 TiBook and though I'd like a bigger display, the small jump to 1440x900 on the 17" would hardly seem worth trading up.
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You would think that a 17 inch screen could at least due what the dell 15.4 does.
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I hate to break the news to you but even HDTV doesnt have the resolution of a computer screen. Have you looked up the specs on a TV lately? Also, has nayone worked on a screen set to its maximum resolution i.e. 1900X1200 or above. Text becomes almost unreadable unless you up the text size, thus reducing your screen real estate. The high resolutions on some models are a would be nice feature, but definitely NOT a must have feature. There needs to be some balance between actual useability and the implemented feature.
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Once again, it could simply be offered as a optional resolution while the default remains 12x8 or whatever.
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The 1080i format makes a picture with 1080 vertical lines, each with 1920 pixels horizontally -- so in computer display terms, it has a resolution of "1920 x 1080". 1080i uses interlaced scanning, like traditional TV, which alternates sending odd lines and even lines and thus sends a complete picture 30 times per second. 1080i provides the highest possible resolution, but has the same motion rendition as traditional TV.
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http://www.nbc.com/nbc/footer/HDTV.shtml
I'm pretty sure that is correct from everything else that I have read.
I haven't seen the UWXGA laptops from Dell, but my brother has the 1600x1200 15" and I don't have any problems reading it.
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