I really hope that other manufacturers try to copy this soon. I'd kill for a thinkpad (or any other machine that runs Linux nicely, has three buttons and an eraser-stick, and has decent battery life) with a retina display.
MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
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Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#192I 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.
That's a real flaw, a old 15" MBP with 1680x1050 would practically be a better choice. This is just dumb, that a 2880x1800 display is worse than a 1680x1050 display because of the way the software handles these resolutions. Unless I'm missing something...
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although I didn't watch the keynote, I tuned in to the live tweeting CNN gave. Don't get me wrong, Apple's Macbook Pro is a nice piece of hardware, but I failed to see anything earth-shattering in their recent announcements. At a high level, they're really just upgrading to Ivy Bridge, USB 3.0, and Retina displays across their notebook line. Nothing mind-blowing really.
The mind-blowing part is their ability to consistently deliver a stream of updates. The mind-blowing part must be seen a step back, not year to year. But you're absolutely right. There's nothing in this one single keynote that's like WAPOWW!!!!
there is nothing mindblowing in the fact, that the most expensive brand is the first that can afford expensive components. It begins in the premium segment, and filters down to mass market in 3 years.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#194Is the line in port gone? Having line in and headphones out has been great for my use cases, and I was sad to see those go from the 13". Are they gone across the board now?
The line in ports may have been combined with the headphone jack. I thought I remembered reading about that somewhere.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#195I 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.
What would happen if you ran Windows or Linux on the MBP? What resolution would you get?
Windows has had High DPI mode for quite awhile. Not sure if that will be compatible with the new MPB, but it should help. Too bad most windows apps are fairly broken in high DPI mode.
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#196This 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.
I know that true hackers don't anti-alias monotype fonts, but I have been using anti-aliased Consolas for a few years now. It is a font best-designed coding books use ( http://www.abookapart.com/ ), and it should only look better, not worse, on print-like display.
> I know that true hackers don't anti-alias monotype fonts
That may be true, but they're going to need a monocle if they want to see 9-pt courier at native resolution on one of these bad boys.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I study computer science and the amount of banter I get from fellow students for using a macbook air is unbelievable. Other people usually seem quite ok with it, although self proclaimed power users usually seem to have an opinion about it.
This is just rich to me. Yes, enjoy your Visual Studio and broken command line, I'll be using lightweight tools and an actual POSIX command line. *edit: Wow, -10? Sorry, I was just sharing my experience of being mocked by people who proudly brag about their Windows 7 machine and are barely proficient at .NET programming who give me a hard time because "Macs are lame and Windows is for geeks". Didn't know there were s…
Just because they don't use OS X doesn't mean they use Windows. As a Computer Science student I'm willing to bet that most of those that "banter" on the parent use Linux.
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#198Once you go Air, you never go back. And this year's Air announcement (like last year's) is pretty 'meh', so I'll be keeping with my old faithful 2010 Air for the time being. The retina displays are fantastic, but as a web dev I'm already dreading the merry havoc it's going to wreak with images on web pages. On a wider note, I feel myself... drifting away from all of this. In previous years I would have been all over…
The option of 8GB of RAM is nice, since the RAM isn't upgradable.
Anyone have any opinions on whether you'll be able to hack in some 8gb memory chips in last year's verison of MBA?
Re: MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
#199Perhaps I'm the only one, but I'm really waiting and praying for a new Mac Pro system and 30" Retina displays. Its been since 2010 for an update on the Mac Pro. Currently, I can't fathom why anyone would purchase them given the price. But the laptops have never felt capable enough for fulltime use for HD video editing (or 2K or 4K...) Unless there's a "just one more thing" with these, it seems that the Mac Pro appear…
Very minor bump: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/11/3078180/apple-incrementall...
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you be specific about what swayed you? I'm not sure what is so new, announced today, that you couldn't have bought yesterday: Retina? Will you continue to run Windows?
It's an Air-like laptop with real performance. It has a real graphics card, can support 16 GB of ram and has a rockin Ivy Bridge processor. The retina display is very impressive as well.
It's a 15" laptop. It is not Air-like for any meaningful definition of "Air-like."