Dell Mini 9 Netbook Display Beats MacBook’s
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Rob Galbraith is a photographer and camera reviewer, and according to Wired, he recently compared the Dell Mini 9 netbook to the 15″ MacBook Pro.
The big news? The Mini 9 beat the MacBook for color accuracy!
It wasn’t an all-out win, however. The Dell Mini 9 netbook had poorer viewing angles than the MacBook.
Galbraith’s problem was with the glossy glass screens Apple puts on its notebooks.
“For the longest time, Apple laptop displays ruled the roost around here. With very few exceptions, going back to the days of the PowerBook G4, portable Macs were considerably more colour accurate than any of the dozens and dozens of PC laptops we’d profiled [...] Macs are no longer at the top of the laptop display heap in our minds.”
This is truly a victory for netbooks everywhere, or rather, a loss for Apple. The test also compared the ThinkPad T60 and ThinkPad W700, both notebooks by Lenovo. The ThinkPads alternated between first and second when compared for color accuracy and angle of view.
Apple machines are popular among photographers for image manipulation and other tasks, so a netbook beating it out is a humiliating loss.
Via Wired.
