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IMO, the screen (15.2" widescreen) is not big enough to warrant a higher resolution. The poblem with some Dell systems is that the resolution becomes unusable for practical purposes. For fonts, you end up having to increase the default size of all text, next are window elements.

Some of us can see. I'm running 1400x1050 on a 14.1" display, with default font sizes, and I could stand for the resolution to be higher in certain instances, but all in all, it's about right.

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The hardware features, build and ergonomics put the PowerBook far ahead of any Windows machine I could find.

Apple definitely has this right. I'm reasonably happy with my Sony PCG-Z1WA, but it could use some improvements here and there. And I think that it's probably amongst the best of the Intel laptops as far as this sort of thing goes. The one thing I miss is TV-out built in. Otherwise, I have Firewire, USB, 802.11g, Bluetooth, 10/100 ethernet, and analog VGA out built in. (Plus that stupid MemoryStick thing.) I don't think I'd use DVI out, but it's a feature it doesn't have. It also doesn't have gigabit ethernet, but I never use the wired ethernet anyway. What's the point of a laptop if you've got all these wires coming out of it tying you down?

On the other hand, an equivalent (where equivalent means "had the features I wanted") Apple would have cost a lot more, and still not had good enough resolution for me -- even the 17" Powerbook is only 1440x900, less than the resolution I'm running now.
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Bitt Faulk