This lets Apple claim a ridiculous 8 hour battery life with the integrated graphics enabled. A bit of an inconvenience but it makes room for a (40% larger than previous generations) behemoth 95WHr battery. Instead of a latch to access the hard drive and battery, you need a screwdriver to remove the back panel. This is the MacBook Pro revision without any easily user-accessible parts. The 17-inch MacBook Pro's display is also 8-bit and has "60 percent greater color gamut that delivers desktop-quality color in a notebook." That being said, I sold one of my monitors that I would have used to pair to my laptop and now rely solely on the MacBook Pro itself. The downside of having such a high PPI with a relatively small display is that you can't comfortably work from the screen from more than a few feet away - even with perfect vision. Look at the window shared across the displays. PPI comparison: 17-inch MacBook Pro and 24-inch Dell. The 17-inch MacBook Pro at 1920x1200 has 133 PPI. A 24-inch display with 1920x1200 resolution has a PPI of 94. A 15-inch MacBook Pro with a native resolution of 1440x900 has a PPI of 110. The screen is brilliant - that is, once you get adjusted to the ridiculously high PPI (pixels per inch). Also, have you tried watching a movie with a glossy MacBook on a plane? With all the overhead lights, or sun coming in the side of the plane window, the glossy screen is remarkably annoying. I mean how often do I watch movies on my laptop? I have other computers and TVs for that. While glossy displays are better for video watching with slightly more vivid colors and darker blacks, I began to loathe it for daily use. Yeah it is kind of odd to see someone get a huge laptop so they can be more mobile but here's my logic: with my 15-inch MacBook Pro I always had to dock it up to my 24-inch Dell LCD so I could get the resolution I'm used to working with and disconnecting it to move was a pain, and dealing with the reduced resolution while not connected to the external display was a definite bummer.Īs for why I went with the 50 anti-glare option this time, well I got tired of looking at fingerprint smudges and my reflection with past glossy MacBooks. Aside from that, I wanted to see what it would be like to have a portable 1920x1200 resolution-capable laptop. I had the 13-inch original white MacBook, the 13-inch Air, the 15-inch first generation MacBook Pro, the 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro - but never a 17-inch. So why did I opt for the 17-inch MacBook Pro this time? Well frankly, because I have never owned a 17-inch laptop before. If this were not antiglare you'd be seeing my reflection in the screen right now.
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