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Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC

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Re: Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC

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Post by vetler »

I kind of want Retina display, but I made a promise to myself that my next laptop would be a Linux laptop. Perhaps I could run Linux on a Macbook Pro, but it would look like this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/what-does-ubuntu-look-lik...

How long until other desktop environments catch up?

Re: Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC

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Post by lucian1900 »

afsina wrote: post #4

In my old 16 inch notebook I cannot notice pixels at all. And font rendering is just fine. Ok I have an eye problem but still I fail to see the point of having very high resolution on a small screen. What is the catch?

I clearly notice the pixels on anything lower than 200dpi and can only completely ignore them past 250dpi.

It's the point where antialising becomes unnecessary, basically.

Re: Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC

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Post by uptown »

daurnimator wrote: post #2

The intro/overview are a complete load of codswallop... Touting increases in DPI as game changing couldn't be farther from the truth. Nevermind the painting of apple as innovators.

"Touting increases in DPI as game changing couldn't be farther from the truth."

I think that remains to be seen. If the existence of this laptop in the market drives consumers to seek out laptops with this resolution display, and other laptop makers are required to offer laptops of similar resolution, and web developers convert their graphics to work well with "Retina" resolutions ... then you could make the case that it's game-changing. But it will be awhile before that's known.

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Post by [deleted] »

lucian1900 wrote: post #6
afsina wrote: post #4

In my old 16 inch notebook I cannot notice pixels at all. And font rendering is just fine. Ok I have an eye problem but still I fail to see the point of having very high resolution on a small screen. What is the catch?

I clearly notice the pixels on anything lower than 200dpi and can only completely ignore them past 250dpi. It's the point where antialising becomes unnecessary, basically.

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Re: Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC

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Post by stusmith1977 »

Does anyone else think it weird that the first mainstream hi-res displays weren't pushed by Microsoft? Let me explain...

Back when WPF was still called Avalon, Microsoft were pushing the technology as a solution for the soon-to-be-arriving high-dpi displays (which, we were assured, were right around the corner). As an example, see a contemporary blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/marcelolr/archive/2004/12/03/274213....

Given that Microsoft were (are?) deseperately trying to hold back the tide of web-based applications, wouldn't displays like this, combined with tchnology such as WPF, have been a killer feature of a desktop OS? And hence, shouldn't they have been a high-priority for Microsoft?

So why did Apple get there first? Why didn't Microsoft research/fund/introduce these high-dpi displays?

Edit: More links from a Coding Horror post from the same year: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/11/trapped-in-a-bitmap...

Re: Retina MacBook Pro Review: The Age of the High-Resolution PC

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stusmith1977 wrote: post #9

Does anyone else think it weird that the first mainstream hi-res displays weren't pushed by Microsoft? Let me explain... Back when WPF was still called Avalon, Microsoft were pushing the technology as a solution for the soon-to-be-arriving high-dpi displays (which, we were assured, were right around the corner). As an example, see a contemporary blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/marcelolr/archive/2004/12/03/274213..…

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