About 100000 people claim to have seen it, yet none have taken pictures...
RIIIGHT
Well here's a basic photo... not perfect quality as it's from a 5mp phone camera but you'll get the idea.
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1920x1200 17" MBP - Anyone seen it?
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Well here's a basic photo... not perfect quality as it's from a 5mp phone camera but you'll get the idea.
Sorry it's not all that clear by the time it gets optimised for the web, but you can at least see that you get quite a lot of 'real estate'.
And i too am both impressed and jealous of your screen. but i won't get a 17" again, unless it's a desktop replacment machine, which i'm thinking about. Too big for my portability tastes.
You have tried your macbook pro, all demo exes in store and yet another one and they where all the same, and you still want to order one to see if it's the same? Well... go figure, they probably ARE that way, stop wasting their time and money, MBPs cost to much already, we don't need to give them an excuse for it ;/
I would have liked to have seen the glossy high-resolution 17" screen but the NY AppleStore still only have the matte versions. They're not labeled well, and are mixed in with the regular 17" with the old resolutions.
I have to agree... the 15" LED screens did look a little brighter. I ran the sample clip on Final Cut Pro on a 15" and 17" and went back and forth staring at the display... The 15" (by myself and my dame) just seemed brighter. I can't remember if the screen was glossy or not (on the 15")
Apart from that, the 17" looked beautiful. There is so much more screen space. Editing on that thing is going to be amazing and the image does appear clear-er than on the lower resolution screen.
Personally, I haven't used/owned a Mac before and so the fonts looked perfect to me. I thought they'd be tiny but they looked "normal". I think I'm a smaller OS font person myself so take that as you will.
I'm buying the 17" high res one through the student developer connection sometime this week (once I figure out the other things I'm going to need).
It's absolutely beautiful.
I have to agree... the 15" LED screens did look a little brighter. I ran the sample clip on Final Cut Pro on a 15" and 17" and went back and forth staring at the display... The 15" (by myself and my dame) just seemed brighter. I can't remember if the screen was glossy or not (on the 15")
Apart from that, the 17" looked beautiful. There is so much more screen space. Editing on that thing is going to be amazing and the image does appear clear-er than on the lower resolution screen.
Personally, I haven't used/owned a Mac before and so the fonts looked perfect to me. I thought they'd be tiny but they looked "normal". I think I'm a smaller OS font person myself so take that as you will.
I'm buying the 17" high res one through the student developer connection sometime this week (once I figure out the other things I'm going to need).
It's absolutely beautiful.
Well here's a basic photo... not perfect quality as it's from a 5mp phone camera but you'll get the idea.
Thanks a lot for posting the picture. Yours is the first picture on the web of the new 17" high-res. And it totally convinced me that this screen is awesome.
QTF
please, just take 10-100 more useless pictures of it and post somewhere, i like surl.se, imageshack.us, whatever. i need something to drowl to while im waiting for wwdc. =)
That is not a useless picture. You can clearly see how large UI elements are in comparision ( you must have seen the 17" before) and how much screen real estate you get. Just great.
FWIW, I don't think he meant it that way.
I thought by putting two web pages (that we're all used to looking at) side by side it would give an idea of text sizes etc. Unfortunately without the pictures being HUGE (and a really good quality high-res camera) it's impossible to represent just how clear the fonts are with the higher PPI of the new screen. If you have vision problems I'd stay clear until Leopard's resolution independence hits, but for anyone with good/average vision and used to working with high resolution displays you won't be disappointed.
This machine, by the way, is the anti-glare one. I'm expecting a glossy later this week so should be able to compare them - though again I don't think photos will represent this well.
Oh, I agree. The new screen needs to be seen up close and personal to be fully appreciated.
Very nice screen real estate!Well here's a basic photo... not perfect quality as it's from a 5mp phone camera but you'll get the idea.
Can you share with us the screen dump by running export DDC from SwitchResX Control? Just want to get an idea what's screen manufacture Apple choose to use for 1900 x 1200 panel.
http://www.switchres.info/html/SRX/DL.shtml
Not sure if this tells you anything...
Code:
DDC block report generated by SwitchResX for display
Color LCD
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Valid DDC block: checksum passed
EDID Version........1.3
Manufacturer........APP
Product Code........27036 (699C) (9C69)
Serial Number.......0
Manufactured........Week 15 of year 2007
Max H Size..........37 cm
Max V Size..........23 cm
Gamma...............2.20
DPMS Supported Features:
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RGB color display
Input signal & sync:
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Digital
Color info:
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Established Timings:
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Manufacturer Reserved Timings:
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Standard Timing Identification:
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Monitor Description blocks:
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Descriptor #0 is Timing definition:
Mode = 1920 x 1200 @ 60Hz
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Horizontal Vertical
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Back Porch.............. 80 pixels 26 lines
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Total...................2080 pixels 1235 lines
Scan Rate............... 74.04 kHz 59.95 Hz
Image Size.............. 367 mm 230 mm
Border.................. 0 pixels 0 lines
Sync: Digital separate with
* Negative vertical polarity
* Negative horizontal polarity
Descriptor #1 is Manufacturer specific data (not interpreted here)
Descriptor #2 is ASCII data:
LP171WU1-TLB1
Descriptor #3 is ASCII data:
Color LCD
Just wanted to thank everyone in this thread for their impressions on the 17" High-Res. As bright as the LED's look, it seems like this is the way to go for people who are junkies for lots of workspace. Mine could be showing up as early as this Friday complete with the 7200 RPM hard-drive...absolutely cannot wait to bask in its glory.
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Hey, I need someone to iChat during down times hey!?! Thanks to you all!I went and bought a 17" glossy tonight with the standard resolution. I returned two and won't be taking another one. The screens are very bad. The backlighting SUCKS. Major backlight leakage along the bottom and shadows on the left and right sides. Both machines I took home had it and the one they had on display had it.
This is horrible for a laptop this expensive. My 17" glossy Dell has none of these problems. For all of you wanting to by one of these, make sure you take a good look at your screen. All three that I saw is HORRIBLE.
This is horrible for a laptop this expensive. My 17" glossy Dell has none of these problems. For all of you wanting to by one of these, make sure you take a good look at your screen. All three that I saw is HORRIBLE.
what is Leopard's resolution independence thing everyone is talking about. and what is UI. thanks
So I just got back from the Apple store at The Grove in Los Angeles and FINALLY got some face time with the 17" high-res display.
All I can say is that you can add one more voice to what everyone here is already saying. The screen is absolutely stunning...it's really a sight to be hold. It really doesn't give up much - if anything - in the way of brightness to the 15" LEDs. How much this will hold up over time remains to be seen, I guess, but seeing it in person made me 100% positive that I made the right choice in going with it.
The text is more than legible, 1080p trailers look amazing, and there is so much space to work with. What the 15" has in brightness and contrast, this one has in real estate and clarity.
All things equal if the few extra hundred bucks don't hurt you that much, I think it's a no-brainer to get the 17" high-res.
Friday can't come quickly enough...
All I can say is that you can add one more voice to what everyone here is already saying. The screen is absolutely stunning...it's really a sight to be hold. It really doesn't give up much - if anything - in the way of brightness to the 15" LEDs. How much this will hold up over time remains to be seen, I guess, but seeing it in person made me 100% positive that I made the right choice in going with it.
The text is more than legible, 1080p trailers look amazing, and there is so much space to work with. What the 15" has in brightness and contrast, this one has in real estate and clarity.
All things equal if the few extra hundred bucks don't hurt you that much, I think it's a no-brainer to get the 17" high-res.
Friday can't come quickly enough...
My 17" Hi-Res Glossy is due to be delivered tomorrow, cant wait - just sods law that I am out all day tomorrow so unless my wife happens to be in at the right time I prob wont get it until Thursday.
A 1920 x 1200 screen run at 1680 x 1050 has a much much less good image than a real 1680 x 1050 screen. Doing this would mean spending lots of money to get a worse image.
Both Apple stores in my area have yet to receive any high res models. I'd like to look at them since the standard res screens are absolutely horrible. I had to return two and now have no laptop.
Omg
Omg !!! They just got the highres matte and glossy 17" macbook pro's in .. I have been calling for like two weeks ... ^ Previous person's post .. noticed the FL at the end of your name .. guess youre in FL .. me too . I will reveal where I got mine from after I reserve and get my hands on it today. I have been going crazy over the past two months on the speculation news regarding the new macbook pro coming out. When it did. I lost it <- currently too excited. Didn't order from applestore.com as I knew they would hit stores before they shipped. So, today.. It happens. I pick her up. My life becomes complete. I will be at the mercy of everyone's requests as time permits. Post up what you would like me to do 'reasonable requests of course' .. Plan on definitely posting up some good high res pics of it as I have noticed no one has taken the time to do so. I can't wait .. *boiling over with excitement. (custom PC builder for the last 7 years) -> converting to : 
Omg !!! They just got the highres matte and glossy 17" macbook pro's in .. I have been calling for like two weeks ... ^ Previous person's post .. noticed the FL at the end of your name .. guess youre in FL .. me too . I will reveal where I got mine from after I reserve and get my hands on it today. I have been going crazy over the past two months on the speculation news regarding the new macbook pro coming out. When it did. I lost it <- currently too excited. Didn't order from applestore.com as I knew they would hit stores before they shipped. So, today.. It happens. I pick her up. My life becomes complete. I will be at the mercy of everyone's requests as time permits. Post up what you would like me to do 'reasonable requests of course' .. Plan on definitely posting up some good high res pics of it as I have noticed no one has taken the time to do so. I can't wait .. *boiling over with excitement. (custom PC builder for the last 7 years) -> converting to :