I loooooove my HD screen.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
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NoiseDesign - Apr 24, 2008 9:21:05 am PDT #5867 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Jessica - Apr 24, 2008 9:21:12 am PDT #5868 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Sean K - Apr 24, 2008 9:24:21 am PDT #5869 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
Gudanov - Apr 24, 2008 9:25:17 am PDT #5870 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
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.
Jessica - Apr 24, 2008 9:26:16 am PDT #5871 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The extra memory is for storing textures used in 3D games primarily.
That's good to know. You guys have just saved me $500!
Rob - Apr 24, 2008 9:26:17 am PDT #5872 of 25501
Jessica, what aspect of the 17" do you think will ruin the portability for you?
Jessica - Apr 24, 2008 9:27:45 am PDT #5873 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.)
Sean K - Apr 24, 2008 9:29:31 am PDT #5874 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
Gudanov - Apr 24, 2008 9:35:42 am PDT #5875 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
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.
megan walker - Apr 24, 2008 9:40:17 am PDT #5876 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My gmail, which never quite works right at the office anyway (I often have to hit refresh or use non-html view), has recently begun giving me this message:
"Your browser's cache is full and may interfere with your Gmail experience."
The odd thing is, I delete everything pretty regularly. And I now have the Temporary Internet Files on my desktop and check in there regularly to delete everything. Anyone else getting this odd message?