Pixel Perfect
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Pixel Perfect
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#2I totally agree about the Lucida Grande thing. It's weird seeing fonts like Lucida Grande and Verdana on such a nice display.
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#3I totally agree about the Lucida Grande thing. It's weird seeing fonts like Lucida Grande and Verdana on such a nice display.
The Retina MPB has opened up a whole world of fonts. It's amazing how much attention I pay to them when I visit websites now.
There is a downside to such a nice screen -- it makes me painfully OCD. On my previous laptop, the screen was such crap that it didn't bother me. On this one, I notice every subtle flaw.
For instance, image retention (which I'm now convinced that after swapping three of these things out eventually affects all of the LG panels used in the MBPR [Samsung panels do not seem to have the issue]).
Then there's the fact that it's just slightly not bright enough for my liking. I find myself hitting the brighten button a lot when it is at max. No matter that my old laptop looks downright dim next to this.
And despite the fact that it is an IPS display, the colors do change quite a bit with viewing angle. A solid white screen kind of shimmers in luminance and tint when moving my head.
And the black level isn't pure black.
And 220ppi isn't quite enough to complete the no-pixel illusion for me.
And the color gamut could be a smidge greater.
It's like the uncanny valley of screens. It's so close to perfect, but not quite there, that it leaves me paying a weird amount of attention to it.
But I wouldn't trade it for any other.
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#4Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber.
Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
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#5Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber. Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
Why the hate, dude? Can you point out anything that is actually wrong with the piece?
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#6Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber. Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
Let me just be straight up.
I'm normally an Apple skeptic and I work primarily on Linux.
That said, I don't think anybody else would've bothered to make retina display available to the general public until Apple forced their hand and made it available themselves...
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#7Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber. Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
So? He likes the display. So do I. It's awesome. When you read a Gruber article you know what you're getting into before you even read it so I don't see why anyone would complain.
The difference between Gruber writing about the things he enjoys and someone else who say, loves Free Software or something or even another Apple lover, is that Gruber can write and is an excellent storyteller (the two don't always have to go together by the way).
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#8Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber. Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
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#9Think about that: a laptop with no performance tradeoff compared to a high-end desktop.
Compared to a high-end desktop which has barely seen updates since 2010, and includes a GPU released in 2009, sure.
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#10Color me surprised to read another frothing fluff piece for an Apple product from arch-apparatchik Gruber. Doubling the display density of a laptop screen qualifies Apple for the Nobel Peace prize now, or something.
Why the hate, dude? Can you point out anything that is actually wrong with the piece?
I could quote specific claims from the piece but it's just too annoying to enumerate all the breathless reasons he gives why this is yet another Apple product that makes everything that came before it trivial and irrelevant.
I'm fed up with this kind of PR masquerading as tech journalism. He's not a journalist. He's part of Apple's third-party marketing arm and he gets compensated for writing this kind of trash with exclusive meetings etc. at Apple.