Comparing Screen Resolutions

Got the new laptop today. Initial response is that I am pretty impressed. The part that grabbed me first was the opening welcome movie, which was pretty striking (My God, it’s full of stars!). I opted for the higher resolution screen, which makes this puppy as nice little HD machine.

To better test this I loaded up the HD 1080 version of WALL.E HD trailer on the iMac G5 and the new MBP. Firstly, the iMac couldn’t even play the HD video without some choppiness. Secondly, it doesn’t fit on the screen (on account of it being sub-1080.

Update: Added jumbo life version of with both images on it:
HD screen comparison

G5 HD video Shot

Wall HD on the 17inch hi-res screen

More review type stuff along with photos of me unboxing and promptly groping the machine will be forth-coming.