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picture-perfect package  Latest PowerBook is a sight for sore
eyes  They heard me.  For a while now, I've railed about Apple's
refusal to bump up the resolution of its PowerBook line -
especially in light of the higher-resolution screens widely
available on Windows laptops.  Whenever I asked Apple officials
about the issue, the standard answer was that the company wanted
to keep its screens at about 100 pixels per inch for readability
reasons. At high resolutions, they said, text can get tiny.
Well, it looks like tiny text is in.  Last month, Apple finally
came through for me - and for all of those high-res fans who've
wanted the same thing. The company unveiled a tweaked 17in
PowerBook boasting a screen resolution of 1,680 by 1,050 pixels,
36 percent more than before and essentially the same resolution
as the company's popular 20in Cinema Displays. The 15in-model
screen was also changed and now sports almost the same
resolution as the old 17in one