MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge

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Post by sciurus » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
arstechnica.com

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Post by SeoxyS » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 5:57 PM UTC

Looks like I'll have to be heading to the Apple store after the keynote is over...

Edit: I'm curious, why the downvotes?

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Post by breckinloggins » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

This may sound weird, but I'm most curious to see how the terminal looks on a retina display (when Apple or someone like iTerm makes one for it). I think having paper-resolution monospaced fonts will be awesome.

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Post by icegreentea » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

Should clear this up. There is an updated MacBook Air line (11" and 13"). There is an updated MacBook Pro line (13" and 15" with 'normal' screen, same chassis and updated internals). And then there is a new 15" MacBook Pro with a 2880 x 1800 screen and is 0.71" thick. I like to dub this one the MacBook Pro Air.

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Post by saturdaysaint » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

As a 2011 MacBook Air user, my biggest envy is USB 3.0. Thunderbolt accessories have been few and far between, and then priced at an exorbitant premium.

But hey, they finally made a Thunderbolt Firewire adapter cable.

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Post by Turbots » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 6:00 PM UTC

SeoxyS wrote: post #2

Looks like I'll have to be heading to the Apple store after the keynote is over... Edit: I'm curious, why the downvotes?

Funny how they are 'Updating the Apple store'... As if they couldn't do this behind the screens... Big attempt to overhype their already overhyped products.. Losers! edit: typo

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

Turbots wrote: post #6

SeoxyS wrote: post #2

Looks like I'll have to be heading to the Apple store after the keynote is over... Edit: I'm curious, why the downvotes?

Funny how they are 'Updating the Apple store'... As if they couldn't do this behind the screens... Big attempt to overhype their already overhyped products.. Losers! edit: typo

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Post by natural219 » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

I have been a Windows user my whole life. As a hacker who has recently moved to San Francisco, I've continuously battled Apple fanboys and Linux fanatics alike on why I love Windows and absolutely do not understand why people want to switch platforms.

Then I watched this keynote.

I'm buying a Macbook Pro.

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Post by jacobr » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 6:02 PM UTC

I wonder what Ubuntu would look like on a retina display.

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Post by LaSombra » Mon, Jun 11, 2012, 6:04 PM UTC

I don't want a "Retina display", I want a true 1920x1080 on my 15" MBP. Apple is trying to impose that density is the same thing as resolution, which is not. A "Retina display" of 2880x1800 is just a "better" 1440x900. Give me the option to choose between double pixels and real pixels and I'll buy thee.