iMacmatician has used his mathematics skills for good and not evil to create a helpful guide for what we feel will be new MacBook screen sizes. The 16:9 ratio seems like a lock at this point so we will have some nice new sizes to choose from. What sizes do you guys think we'll see?
Notice the height is about the same but the screens will become a bit wider at various sizes. Most likely the bezel around the screen will have to change significantly for the new MacBooks.
iMacmatician has used his mathematics skills for good and not evil to create a helpful guide for what we feel will be new MacBook screen sizes. The 16:9 ratio seems like a lock at this point so we will have some nice new sizes to choose from. What sizes do you guys think we'll see?
Notice the height is about the same but the screens will become a bit wider at various sizes. Most likely the bezel around the screen will have to change significantly for the new MacBooks.
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I don't think so...
From the supposed leaked shells of the new MacBook Pros, they still have a 16:10 display.
unreaduble
next time they do it is better use alternative colours. Please how do you read it?!
I see no advantage in using
I see no advantage in using 16:9 for portable computer displays. If the screens are 16:9, the machines will either have to be wider or the screen real estate will be less. A bezel change is not enough to fix this because there is basically no spare room on current MacBook Pro models. The shell is tightly wrapped around the LCD screen module.
16:9 makes sense for large desktop displays, because you can open two browser or doc windows side by side at nice resolution. On notebooks I think it's stretching it, particularly the smaller sizes (current 13 and 15 inch models).
It's nice for movies but this is not a primary use for notebooks as far as I know. We'll see.
I like the 14.1 and the 16.4
I like the 14.1 and the 16.4 for the MB and MBP
16x9 dispalys will not be used
16x9 displays will not be used on the MacBooks, since it will be perceived as a "feature" that the MacBook Air will not share. And no, they will not redesign the MacBook Air enclosure after just one revision.
The new MacBooks will have the same 13" 1280x800 16x10 displays as they do now.
I'd sure like to see a 16x9 MBP
Sony has a 16x9 model:
http://www.provantage.com/sony-vgnfw160e-h~7SONN17J.htm
It uses a 16.4" display with a 1600x900 resolution. Sure would be nice! I could sure use that.
I think I read there is
I think I read there is another 16x9 screen size at 15.6 inches. I actually think either 15.6" or 16.4" would be great. I hope for an actual 1920x1080 16.4" screen. I think I read that the Acer Gemstone Blue has the 16.4 inch screen @ 1920x1080.
If Apple is going to 16x9, I am looking for Blu-ray ( drive from the new Sony Vaio TT), and HDMI out. Thats my dream laptop. I will be happy for another 5 years.
That's probably why we won't
That's probably why we won't get it. Apple doesn't want you to be happy for 5 years; they want you to upgrade every 3 years.
I would rather stick with a
I would rather stick with a 16:10 than a 16:9, it would be too width to get a desired height when working with photoshop and other applications
They will stay with 16:10 if
They will stay with 16:10 if they have any sense. 1920x1200 is a standard resolution for many graphics apps.
1080 media would be the only reason to change, and that's just not enough.
Don't forget, they're looking to cut costs, not add to them, and the best way to do that is continue using the same displays.
Unlikely, due to DPI issues.
Screens are generally manufactured to be at or very near certain DPI standards. To increase the overall size of the screen slightly in order to make the screen the same vertical size at a lower resolution would be very unlikely from both a design standpoint and a screen manufacturing standpoint.
I don't see it happening.
Umm... what?
"Notice the height is about the same but the screens will become a bit wider at various sizes."
Notice how the screen ratio is either to 16:9 to 16:10? So it is not really a major discovery that 1 inch to height translates to about 1.6 inches to width.
Terrible trend
I really dislike this move toward 16:9 screens. I feel short of vertical real estate on 16:10 screens.
Most content is now and will probably always require lots of vertical yet the display makers are forcing us to do more and more scrolling. The web is primarily composed of objects that are anywhere from 2 to 20 times as tall as they are wide and almost all printed material is taller than it is wide.
Another major use of computers today is digital photos and while panorama shots are nice, they're achieved by cutting off pixels. Physics ensures that circular lenses are best which means any photo that is not equilateral (round, square, octagonal, etc.) is sacrificing quality for shape. The current 4:3 ratio of most cameras is already a compromise.
Don't be fooled, moving to 16:9 displays isn't about displaying movies it's about the LCD manufacturers getting more screens from a single sheet of glass.
it is about the LCD manufacturers
I think the move to 16x9 is inevitable, and I also think web content will evolve to fill the wider screens.
The fact of the matter is its about the content, and all video content is moving to 16x9, hence the change. As someone else pointed out, the screens are largely the same size in height, just different width, so I cant undestand the complaints about keeping 16x10, if it is the same size, so what? My Bigger concern is resolution, I want those 16 inch screens to actually do 1920x1080.
But be assured the reason lots of manufacturers are rolling out these screens is the manufacturing of the screens. Cheaper always wins.
that is the *worst* image to
that is the *worst* image to display screen ratios I have ever, ever seen.