another macbook thread
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- Atkinson
Because I know how much you all love these threads, I have some more questions...
new MBP comes with 2.53ghz as standard. Is 2.8 worth the extra £200?
resolution is 1440 x 900 which for a 15" screen I'd have thought was fine - am I right?
- mirrorball0
with this new graphix card, would a high end Macbook be ok for photoshop, indesign work etc
- yes, and for 3dLlyod
- oh good Llyod, save meself a fortune there thenmirrorball
- macbok is only 13"Atkinson
- the macbook does NOT have firewire though, so keep that in mind. if you have a fw drive it's useless. :(kona
- Llyod0
I axed the same question about the 2.8 and people said no. there's no choice when it comes to the resolution.
- Meeklo0
Sign the bring back the Matter screen petition here
http://www.ipetitions.com/petiti…
- kona0
get what you can afford.
1440x900 is a fine resolution. the only thing i'll say is when working in Ps things get a bit tight with the left and right toolbars. if you're smart about setting the widths of the toolbars you can easily fit a 1024x768 comp into the window, no problems. but really, if you're a design professional you should really be plugging this thing into a larger external monitor and just use the mbp's monitor to have your secondary windows open in.
good luck.
- which is why it'll cost yahanother $800 dollarsmirrorball
- Llyod0
if your interested in 3d, which if it can be run, pshop can certainly be run.
http://animationartist.digitalme…
- Atkinson0
I wouldn't say I'm a professional. I'm a lecturer, I publish stuff, use photoshop a lot - I earn my living from lecturing mainly though, so this will just travel with me and let me work on the way to work etc. The macbooks screen is too small for me though
- ********0
You'll be fine with the macbook. Don't bother with a faster processor, max out the RAM. You can always hook up to a larger monitor if you start to feel cramped.
- tkmeister0
I also have a question. I have a 2yrs old MBP with 23" ACD at home. I was thinking to get a 13" MB for travel/portability. won't really replace my 15" but just as an additional machine. it seems like the new MB is faster than my old MBP especially with a new graphic card.
I wonder if a 13"MB is that much compact and light to carry around.
- it is faster than your 15" mbp. i've got a 2ghz 15" and the 13" looks way better to me right now.sublocked
- dconstrukt0
and of course i got my 17 in like 3 months ago.
lovely.
you can never win.... there's ALWAYS a new one coming out.
- Atkinson0
yea too true. Theyre doing good deals on the old 17" ones now, refurbs
- Llyod0
how can you tell where refurbs come from? old stock or some jizz encrusted laptop used by some basement dweller?
- Atkinson0
yeah, some people pay more for that though
- ********0
I'm gonna wait when the snow leopard comes out and see review MB or MBP runs better. Who knows by then it might be next update for MBs. - hoping the MBP graphic card can use simultaneously
- Llyod0
how much are the operating system upgrades?
- ********0
did you guys know that the new ACD only works with the new macbook/pro/air
- Shepstar150
my main concern between macbook and macbook pro would be the bigger screen if don't always wan't to work with a 2nd display and 13.3" has no FireWire.
If you have existing drives you can't use them anymore.
- BuddhaHat0
Bastards. They've sucked some of the life out of it:
Text from the Gizmodo link:
This confirms what I suspected—the new MacBook Pro battery has a lower capacity than the old one. About 16 percent less to be specific. The old battery was rated at 5600mAh/60Wh, but the new ones are rated at 4700mAh/50Wh. This perfectly explains why you now need to use the integrated Nvidia GeForce 9400M on the new Pro to get the same five-hour (rated, not real world) battery life as you did with the discrete 8600M GT on the previous-gen Pro, despite its use of more energy-efficient DDR3 memory (which would negate drops from the faster FSB) and the same processor clock speeds.