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Originally Posted by OC'ing Noob 
You can have fun continuing to enjoy notebooks with subpar displays then. I personally do not want to share the same lousy display future that you have. Apple slapped on an amazing display on what I consider to be a great portable. Even if I don't ever buy one, I still look forward to this great display making its way into other markets as well. If you cannot see the visual improvements this will bring once these quality displays become mainstream, then don't bother replying. I foresee this being great for engineers who use CAD, photographers, video editors, and the entire medical field.
You can have fun continuing to enjoy notebooks with subpar displays then. I personally do not want to share the same lousy display future that you have. Apple slapped on an amazing display on what I consider to be a great portable. Even if I don't ever buy one, I still look forward to this great display making its way into other markets as well. If you cannot see the visual improvements this will bring once these quality displays become mainstream, then don't bother replying. I foresee this being great for engineers who use CAD, photographers, video editors, and the entire medical field.
You'd need a $500+ FireStream/FirePro/Quadro card to run much any CAD program at 2880x 1800 smoothly (talking actually using CAD in industry, not high school CAD work). 650M sure as heck won't do it. Let me put it this way, AMD's Trinity A10-4600M APU gets roughly the same (+/- 10%) or better framerate than the 650M for several CAD programs. Not that the A10 is good for CAD - the smart option would've been using a Quadro card in the laptop to roughly double the CAD performance. You can get a Lenovo W530 with a quad, Quadro graphics, and 95% color gamut 1080p screen for about $1500, engineers are still going to lean toward that or a Dell Precision for a mobile workstation.
(proof: first take the ratio of 2880x1800 / 1920x1080 = 2.5 X higher resolution. Then look at SpecViewPerf benches, noting it's tested at 1920x1080. Multiply those framerates by perhaps 0.6-0.7, being generous.. http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-7660G.69830.0.html http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-650M.71887.0.html).
As for 2D stuff, this Macbook Pro should be great for photos. How useful would it really be though? Prints won't be anywhere near 220 PPI... and if you're designing something like a poster, it's nice to see it at full-scale (or as close to full-scale as possible). $2200 for a first draft machine, meh.
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Originally Posted by james8
laptop is such an outdated term. nowadays it's called a notebook. maybe do some more readings before picking on terms?
laptop is such an outdated term. nowadays it's called a notebook. maybe do some more readings before picking on terms?
HP and Lenovo are the 2 largest laptop makers in the world, respectively. They both still use the term laptop.. so it's still relevant. You must be a buzzword guy (marketing? lol) if you're so concerned.
Edited by jrbroad77 - 6/11/12 at 3:00pm
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Toshiba Portege R835-P50X
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| Phenom II X4 955 BE | Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-UD2H | MSI Hawk R5770 | 3x2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 4-4-4-12 |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling |
| 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 | 250 GB WD Caviar Black | Samsung 20X DVD-R/RW | Thermaltake MaxOrb |
| Cooling | OS | Monitor | Power |
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