Joining the MacBook owner crowd
June 26th, 2006 by Scott Janousek
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Loading ...I went with the MacBook Pro 15″, since this will combine both my legacy Voodoo PC laptop for development purposes and my trusty old 17″ PowerBook G4 for design. I’m consolidating two machines into one (well almost) … the goal is to have one laptop and one OS by the end of the year for both design and development … This will leave my Alienware desktop rig for all the above (plus games).
And if you’re wondering, I’m running both bootcamp and parallels, since I’m not completely switched (yet).
Well, back to installing software … so far, so good … I’ll post an update in a few. Until then, “keep on a truck’in”.
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June 26th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
i was drooling on one of those at the apple store this weekend.
June 26th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
>i was drooling on one of those at the apple store
Hey Keith, hopefully, it’s not the one I got.
But seriously, yes, so far it’s pretty sweet as far as laptops go (have mobile devices have spoiled me that much?). The machine screams compared to the G4.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:58 am
Well, I finally have my brand new laptop (thanks Best Buy), so I won’t be in the market for a new machine for a while. I’ll just keep drooling.
June 27th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Scott, do you find working in a lower resolution screen (compared to your 17″ G4 or Windows laptops) affects your productivity? Or do you hook it up to an external screen at a higher resolution?
June 27th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
1440×900 for the laptop, and 1400×1050 for the secondary screen. My external isn’t that great (Dell crap) … I think the ATI card in the pros is capable of much more though, 2560×1600 I believe.
I’ll have to find the happy medium.
For now, most of the Flash work occurs on the alienware desktop.
June 28th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
According to http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html, the highest resolution the 17″ MBP supports is 1680×1050. That must be referring to the laptop screen and not external, right?
Does anyone know if the MBP 15″ or 17″ supports an 1920×1200 external LCD?
June 28th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Check out the info under: Video and graphics support title under the ATI section …
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors
June 28th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Thanks, that’s good to know.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
No prob. Just going from what’s on the website. I couldn’t tell if that was for the 15″, 17″ or both. I think they have the same card though.