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"I got rid of my retina macbook pro today." While I can understand the issue being something that annoys you, deciding to simply rid yourself of it - despite the bug being as you state "not something that disturbs your normal workflow" - strikes me as rather silly.
It works best with 1440x900 resolution. So if you like 1680x1050, your GPU will have to do extra work. The display's native resolution is 2880x1800. Why would you set it to half the native resolution? That defeats the whole point of having all those pixels! You might as well have a 1440x900 (non-retina) display. Setting the display output to 1680x1050 is totally whacked - that is displaying each pixel in 1.7 native p…
The point of having the pixels is so that stuff looks sharper. 1680x1050 is a lot more screen real estate = more job for the windowing system to display everything nicely. Same thing for running it at full 2880x1800 resolution.
[1] http://www.techhive.com/article/257796/run_a_retina_macbook_...
It works best with 1440x900 resolution. So if you like 1680x1050, your GPU will have to do extra work. The display's native resolution is 2880x1800. Why would you set it to half the native resolution? That defeats the whole point of having all those pixels! You might as well have a 1440x900 (non-retina) display. Setting the display output to 1680x1050 is totally whacked - that is displaying each pixel in 1.7 native p…
1680x1050 looks fine to my eyes. Certainly not retina quality, but as good as a non-retina display.
I run the native 2880x1800 at work and an external 1080p screen at home. I've noticed none of these issues so far. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones.
Wow, that's kind of petty. The author is never going to find the perfect laptop. There are always going to be some issues, so deal with it. While I am always in favor of throwing out apple products (apple sucks), this article is just stupid.
Have the retina. It's an awesome machine, and his points are correct: * A lot of them suffer from burn-in, mine doesn't (I have a samsung display). I'm lucky! * The scrolling is jittery at times. Yes I do notice. * You can't really update anything inside. None of these things bother me, at all. Update things inside? Last time I did that was to upgrade a 2GB to a 4GB for my previous laptop. It cost me as much as my Ap…
Have the retina. It's an awesome machine, and his points are correct: * A lot of them suffer from burn-in, mine doesn't (I have a samsung display). I'm lucky! * The scrolling is jittery at times. Yes I do notice. * You can't really update anything inside. None of these things bother me, at all. Update things inside? Last time I did that was to upgrade a 2GB to a 4GB for my previous laptop. It cost me as much as my Ap…
I'm going to guess you get a similar one-chance swap-out with the Retina MBP as well.
I have one of these I haven't noticed any of those problems you mentioned but I do have 1 dead pixel that is starting to drive me nuts. Anyone else notice any dead pixels on theirs? Other then that I love it, fastest most beautiful machine I've ever used.
"After a couple of days" he noticed that "it's a disposable machine" and "none of its components can be upgraded"? Those are valid complaints, but they're public knowledge. If he didn't do the research before buying it, it's a little silly to be complaining about those two things now.
Lots of hate on HN for this article...
"I got rid of my retina macbook pro today." While I can understand the issue being something that annoys you, deciding to simply rid yourself of it - despite the bug being as you state "not something that disturbs your normal workflow" - strikes me as rather silly.