I am surprised, nobody cares about LED color shift, degrading output after 100,000 hours? It isn't something you can test in a few weeks time. Having said that, LED vs CCFL efficiency, do the maths. CCFL is superior in terms of Lumens per watt. I am not sure how LED can be more efficient in a LCD screen. Perhaps the inverter is the main cause of efficiency. However, it's nice to know that there is no mercury gas to poison you if you crack the screen, which is very likely to happen...
Besides that, apple books are often plague with quality problem. The 'shell' don't seem to last very long. I used to worship apple macbook pros and buy them without a second thought but not anymore. True they are designed in California, but they are not made there. They are made in the country where people work like slaves, severely underpaid. Since they are riding Intel chips now, it's easy to find many laptop out there that could easily outdo apple for the money.
If you want to pay so much money for a laptop, look at the Sony Vaio with
carbon fiber shell series. It's true some budget Vaio are made in the same place as Apples, that's because Sony also rebrand laptops from Original Design Manufacturer(ODM). However the high end Sony Vaio laptops are made in the land of sun. It's where Sanyo Eneloops are invented, sushi eaten as breakfast, whales are killed for 'research' but not dogs, robots iron your clothes, and a place where people strive for perfection. Carbon fiber shell is 10x cooler mmmkay, if it make cars go faster I am sure it makes the Intel inside go faster
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There's one thing I can't deny about apple, is that they look fabulous which is why I buy them in the first place.
