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I think many times a big chunk of the price difference comes from the display on Apple laptops. Someone with more knowledge on this could probably explain it be
by felxh 16y ago
I think many times a big chunk of the price difference comes from the display on Apple laptops. Someone with more knowledge on this could probably explain it better, but I usually notice a better viewing angle and brighter, more vivid colors.
In addition to that you've got the battery life, the thinness and the great touch pad
- weaksauce 16y agoI think they use s-ips screens in the 15" and up. Not sure about the newer 13" but the older one was tn which is junk. A lot of manufacturers use tn which has probably the lowest quality of the different types of screens.
- joonap 16y agoNope. They have all been TN so far. Just better quality TNs. I've been wishing for an IPS on a Macbook for years. Looks like this update didn't bring any change to that matter.
- rdl 16y agoI believe the last commercially available IPS laptop was the think pad t43p. The actual plant making 15" IPS panels shut down. (EDIT: wow, thank you! (I forgot about the T60p, but that's also discontinued; the HP EliteBook having a 17" is amazing though...I may have to get one of those!)
- jarek 16y agoThe T60p also had one, and the Thinkpad tablets at least through X200t had an IPS (Flexview) option. It doesn't appear to be an option on the more recent tablets.
- jseliger 16y ago"I believe the last commercially available IPS laptop was the think pad t43p." There are one or two commercially available -- see here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4049/hp-elitebook-8740w-ips-on-the-go http://www.anandtech.com/show/4049/hp-elitebook-8740w-ips-on...
- rosser 16y agoThe x61 tablet had one, too. One of the many reasons I stuck with that machine as long as I did.