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I imagine Sean is thinking of the 17" model.
Oh, yeah. I was perhaps unclear on that. And yeah, the hi-res screen isn't available on the 15", sadly.
Der. Yeah. I realize now it sounded like I was saying it would only cost Jess $200 more to get a hi-res screen, and not the $1,200 it would take.
I loooooove my HD screen.
Aha! That would explain why I didn't see it on the options page.
I think the 17" model might not be portable enough for me.
I think the 17" model might not be portable enough for me
I just dropped $100 on a backpack for my 17", because one day of carrying around S's 13" wrecked my back for a whole day.
I don't think the extra 256MB of video memory on the higher-end MacBook Pro is particularly useful for video editing.
If that's the only difference then, yeah, zero use for video editing. The extra memory is for storing textures used in 3D games primarily.
The extra memory is for storing textures used in 3D games primarily.
That's good to know. You guys have just saved me $500!
Jessica, what aspect of the 17" do you think will ruin the portability for you?
Jessica, what aspect of the 17" do you think will ruin the portability for you?
Um, the size? (Sorry, I don't know how to answer that without sounding completely snotty! But I know the old 17" Powerbooks were way too big for me to comfortably carry over my shoulder.)
The 17" is big and heavy. It's not doable for me over the shoulder, and I get plenty of upper body and core workout from my job.
I kinda wish there was some extra benefit to more powerful video cards than just 3D game performance to help justify the Nvidia 8800GT in my home computer, but not really. I think it has a hardware MPEG decoder and some other nifty video features, but so do the bottom end Nvidia cards. I think pretty much all current ATI cards (which Macs use) have similar video features regardless of where they stand in the lineup.
I sure hope AMD doesn't go belly up. That's going to leave pretty much one vendor for CPUs and one vendor for anything but the most basic video GPUs.