I'm curious about the screen they are putting in the new 17 inch MacBook Pro. It says "The 1920-by-1200-pixel resolution (133 pixels per inch) means you can view more palettes and windows or watch HD video in its native 1920-by-1080 resolution. Perfect whether youre working in the studio or out in the field, the display offers a 60 percent greater color gamut than previous generations for richer, more vibrant colors and a 700:1 contrast ratio that makes whites brighter and blacks blacker." Does this mean that they are using real 8 bit displays? I kind of doubt it since that don't mention the infamous "millions of colors". How are they getting a high quality screen in a such a small compartment? The screen on the Sony AW is easily a half inch thick on it own. I can't wait to see the difference in person.
To me the screen is the most important aspect of a notebook followed by weight. I'm not a fan of Apple's politics, but this new MBP has me intrigued.
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My guess is that it's not using a TN panel, and an IPS of some sort.
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it is likely to be the same RGB LED, so TN anyways
if apple can find a source that produces IPS, others can do the same on the expensive market, color gamut and quality of the panel are two different things
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The marketing part first:
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features-17inch.html
72% of the NTSC gamut equals sRGB gamut.
The Sony AW you mentioned uses RGBLED backlight and has significantly higher color gamut - 137% of the Adobe Color Gamut.
Enough about the gamut as that's just the range of colors that the display can reproduce and it's determined by the backlight. So you get a backlight upgrade here. Congratulations.
Btw, it does say "millions of colors" but then again, all of their notebooks (and their 6 bit screens) "support" that "feature", through dithering.
The only improvement recently were some RGBLED screens used by other brands, since they use better TN panels, which are advertised as 8-bit, and also the RGBLED backlight offer a wide color gamut and more natural colors.
Just for an example, this below is a comparison between the the 15" MBP with WLED and the 17" Dell Precision M6400 with RGBLED and 100% Adobe gamut.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=4311761&postcount=8
Back to the 17" MBP, it probably uses a 6-bit TN panel with White LED backlighting, which isn't exactly impressive at this age and time.
This below is from Displayblog:
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Cheers,
17" MacBook Pro Screen Quality
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by darklich, Jan 13, 2009.