MBP screen resolution compared to MB

I've hads my new Macbook for just over a month now, and I love it. Just the same, the resolution on my Apple Cinema Display cleans up the floor with the Macbook. It's almost night and day. I can't help but wonder, does the MBP have a screen image comparable to that of the cinema display monitors?

 

so is that mean u like the macbook display more than your Apple Cinema Display? is that the newest Cinema Display?

 

Well, the resolution on the MBP is 1440x900. I think it's probably my favorite resolution for a 15" screen.

Remember, larger resolutions need a bigger screen, unless you have eagle eyes. I do like the cinema displays, wanna buy me a 30" cinema display? :-D

 

No, no, the exact opposite. The cinema display is stunning, but the Macbook screen pales in comparison, in every way. I was wondering if the MBP screen is closer to the image quality of the cinema display monitors.

 

resolution isn't the only spec to account for. Contrast, response time, color reproduction, brightness, dot pitch, coating, angle of vision, all these influence the image; also there may be a large subjective component since we all see slightly different. I have seen MBPs and MBs side by side,as well as 17" iMacs and couldn't make out any difference. I have seen Apple Cinema displays but have not been able to compare it to a Macbook/Macbook Pro. I have the impression that the sheer size and resolution of a Cinema display is what makes it being perceived as so good looking; i.e., it doesn't really means it is intrinsically better.

 

One more thing to mention, which Wooky kind of hit on... The response time. I'm not sure what the response time of these displays are, but I bet that the 30" cinema display has a slower response time (as it seems, the large the LCD is, the worse the repsonse time). Then again, thats not necesarily a bad thing.
A lot of displays get a lower response time because they don't display a true black (pixel off). They instead make a very dark color pixel. It's much faster taking a dark colored pixel to a bright one, then turning a pixel on. At least, thats my understanding.
But again, I don't really know the exact information regarding these panels. I'm also not sure if these are 6 or 8 bit panels, but from the quality that I see so far, it's 8 bit.

So far, I've been more impressed by the MB/MBP screens compared to the smaller Cinema Displays. Then again, these are glossy and have richer saturation compared to the matte displays.