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iPod Photo hard drive accessing for photos?! — #5

oh i didnt hear any loud noise i just felt the hardrive startup as i was scrollin thru my pictures and thought it was odd that it cant just store a folder of pix in its ram when th…
MacNN Hardware by Rychiar

Apple's Brightness Trick — #1

Has anyone noticed that the images of the new PowerBooks are a lot brighter than old images? I believe that Apple is aware of the screen brightness complaint, and is responding to …
MacNN Hardware by tavilach

Apple's Brightness Trick — #3

Quote: Originally posted by nuggetman: my 12" powerbook has no problem w/ brightness i often use it below full simply because full hurts my eyes You've obviously nev…
MacNN Hardware by tavilach

Apple's Brightness Trick — #5

The same applies to my iBook. I was in Starbucks the other day with it and had to ask an employee to put the window shades down, as the afternoon sun was making my iBook screen har…
MacNN Hardware by jamil5454

Apple's Brightness Trick — #7

Quote: Originally posted by ender2002: most laptops screen have horrible quality outside... Why don't you go to a store and compare PowerBooks to Vaios...
MacNN Hardware by tavilach

Apple's Brightness Trick — #8

Fujitsu has the "Crystal View Outdoor Enhanced Screen" where as Sony simply calls it "XBRITE". Not sure what other PC manufacturers call this technology but there definitely is a d…
MacNN Hardware by urrl78

Apple's Brightness Trick — #9

Quote: Originally posted by TailsToo: Apple has always had pretty good screens. Yeah, I agree. Comparing to the Dell laptops that we use at school, (Centrino) the …
MacNN Hardware by tungtied07

Apple's Brightness Trick — #10

I'd also be very surprised if the images on the screens of the PowerBooks were really showing on them. There is almost no doubt in my mind that the pictures on the screens were Pho…
MacNN Hardware by WJMoore

Apple's Brightness Trick — #11

Quote: Originally posted by WJMoore: I'd also be very surprised if the images on the screens of the PowerBooks were really showing on them. There is almost no doubt in m…
MacNN Hardware by TailsToo

Apple's Brightness Trick — #12

Yep for sure.... It would be nice if Apple at least made better screens available BTO, kind of like, dare I say it, dell. You can up the price of a machine by quite a bit just by t…
MacNN Hardware by MartiNZ

Apple's Brightness Trick — #13

Quote: Originally posted by TailsToo: Correct! The images on the screens are not real - there is no way to tell brightness from the images on the website. Oy. I am a…
MacNN Hardware by tavilach

Apple's Brightness Trick — #14

Quote: Originally posted by tavilach: Why don't you go to a store and compare PowerBooks to Vaios... Which would be indoors, then?
MacNN Hardware by St.John

Apple's Brightness Trick — #15

Quote: Originally posted by tavilach: I believe that Apple is aware of the screen brightness complaint To be honest, I haven't heard of any screen brightness compl…
MacNN Hardware by Maflynn

Apple's Brightness Trick — #16

my disappointment is when i put my revC 12" alubook next to my girlfriend's 15" revC; her screen is noticeably brighter, sharper. having said that, the 12" is, on it's own, brigh…
MacNN Hardware by fisherKing

Apple's Brightness Trick — #17

Hm... I have it the other way around, my PB 12" is not as good as the new iBook 12" 1.25GHz. I put them side by side and my father-in-law said how come your more expensive model h…
MacNN Hardware by phantomo

Apple's Brightness Trick — #18

Quote: Originally posted by phantomo: Hm... I have it the other way around, my PB 12" is not as good as the new iBook 12" 1.25GHz. I put them side by side and my father…
MacNN Hardware by fisherKing

Apple's Brightness Trick — #19

Talk about nitpicking! They're images on a web site! I doubt there are secret reasons why the images are brighter. They are against a black background, for one thing. Relax. S…
MacNN Hardware by ibook_steve

Apple's Brightness Trick — #20

For those of you interested there is a very good discussion on Toms Hardware (link HERE) which discusses the IPS (In Plane Switching) screens that you are talking about (XBrite et…
MacNN Hardware by jumpjim

Apple's Brightness Trick — #21

I'm sure Apple made the whole book appear brighter to make it look almost as white as an iBook to grab more people looking for the fad white computer equipment (ie. iBook, iPod, iM…
MacNN Hardware by iREZ

Apple's Brightness Trick — #22

After having replaced a monitor data cable in an old iBook, I do sort of wonder if you could swap out the LCD panel itself with something that has a better contrast ratio. I bet t…
MacNN Hardware by markponcelet

Apple's Brightness Trick — #23

Actually, I always thought the best thing about the apple screens was the color. They're bright screens, no doubt, but you're right, they're also not as bright as the XBrite screen…
MacNN Hardware by R3z

Transferring Music — #1

For that new iPod Shuffle, I'm a little unclear how you can transfer music. Does it work like a usb flash drive where you can just drag files onto it, or do you have to use the iTu…
MacNN Hardware by magic_widget
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