. I'm upgrading from a Ti Book 500Mhz as well as a PowerMac (Sawtooth) 500Mhz. I'm expecting quite a major performance boost! I'm still sitting on the fence regarding purchasing the same MBP as the one you ordered. I'll probably take a decision near the end of next week. I did check, and the student deal with the ipod continues until mid September so I can take my time deciding without losing out on that, which is good.
While I was at the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre, I did make a few observations:
The 17 inch MBP with the optional high resolution display was interesting to see. It looked very fine and sharp and was still very readable, except the small size that everything on the screen appears at limits how far you can sit away from the screen and still be able to read it.
I'm sort of disappointed that there isn't an optional high resolution 15 inch unit that has the same display size as the 20 inch Cinema Display, the way the optional 17 inch unit's display equates to a 23 inch Cinema Display. I figure this is either because no such LCD panel is available or because Apple designed the 17 inch high res MBP with the idea that video editors would buy it to be able work on 1080i HDTV projects at full size on the screen - which wouldn't translate into the idea of 'lets make the 17 inch optionally equal to the 23 inch Cinema Display and the 15 inch optionally equal to the 20 inch Cinema Display' if that was the only design concern.
The Apple TV box is an interesting little unit although the colour coding of the Y, Pb, Pr outputs seems to use a different coding from other devices I've worked on. 720p is an odd HDTV resolution to use since most broadcasters have settled down on 1080i as the defacto standard for HDTV with the notable exception of Fox, who use 720p. Oh well. What I really need is a 'Reverse Apple TV' since I need to go from the sattelite box in another room, to my computer in this room. Networking the eyeTV via my Powerbook worked but not very well, since my 10 Mb/s network couldn't do it.
While I was at the Apple Store in the Eaton Centre, I did make a few observations:
The 17 inch MBP with the optional high resolution display was interesting to see. It looked very fine and sharp and was still very readable, except the small size that everything on the screen appears at limits how far you can sit away from the screen and still be able to read it.
I'm sort of disappointed that there isn't an optional high resolution 15 inch unit that has the same display size as the 20 inch Cinema Display, the way the optional 17 inch unit's display equates to a 23 inch Cinema Display. I figure this is either because no such LCD panel is available or because Apple designed the 17 inch high res MBP with the idea that video editors would buy it to be able work on 1080i HDTV projects at full size on the screen - which wouldn't translate into the idea of 'lets make the 17 inch optionally equal to the 23 inch Cinema Display and the 15 inch optionally equal to the 20 inch Cinema Display' if that was the only design concern.
The Apple TV box is an interesting little unit although the colour coding of the Y, Pb, Pr outputs seems to use a different coding from other devices I've worked on. 720p is an odd HDTV resolution to use since most broadcasters have settled down on 1080i as the defacto standard for HDTV with the notable exception of Fox, who use 720p. Oh well. What I really need is a 'Reverse Apple TV' since I need to go from the sattelite box in another room, to my computer in this room. Networking the eyeTV via my Powerbook worked but not very well, since my 10 Mb/s network couldn't do it.
