New, High-End Laptops Today
These look very, very nice - no wonder Apple is selling more laptops than desktop computers, and the rate is increasing.
I like these new laptops because they can handle more RAM, FINALLY. The new “Santa Rosa” 64-bit motherboard design allows owners of these new MacBook Pros to keep shoveling in bigger RAM chips as they get cheaper. Right now, Apple claims that you can put “up to 4 gigabytes” of RAM inside, but I suspect that that number is just representative of what Apple is currently offering. When chips get cheaper and more capacious, I wouldn’t be surprised to see thirty-two gigabytes or more (as is now offered for the Mac Pro towers), as the years go by. Let’s say that you buy one with one gigabyte of RAM - In theory, the new MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro towers (and G5 towers) can recognize and deal with ten billion times as much!
I’m holding off on any opinion concerning the newest, flagship 17″ MacBook Pro, with the same, 1080p high-definition resolution as a 24″ screen. That’s a lot of pixels, and they’re awfully small and packed tightly together! I suspect that it will be a lot more appealing once Leopard (OS X 10.5) comes out, with its resolution-independent interface. This means that you can re-size everything that you deal with on your Mac, as small or as big as you want, and never see any gritty pixels in your menus, windows, icons or text. I’ll wait until I see Leopard and the new high-definition screen before I get too excited. My middle-aged eyes are having issues with the screen that I have!
