Apple Releases First MacBook Pro with 'Retina' Display

Rob Williams · 06-11-2012, 09:32 PM

At its annual WWDC, Apple announced a MacBook Pro 15" refresh that's sure to turn heads. Let's just get out with it: 2880x1800. Yes, that's the resolution. As in, 5.184 megapixels. With that resolution, this 15" notebook has more pixels than a 30" monitor at 2560x1600. For an even better perspective, the previous "best" for 15" notebooks has been 1920x1080. The latest MacBook Pro increased that by a factor of about 2.5x.

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MacMan · 06-12-2012, 07:25 AM

Beautiful laptop, maybe even the best yet, but sadly, for most people, just like myself, it's completely out of reach price wise.

Oh well, I could always buy a lotto ticket and dream, can't I?

madmat · 06-12-2012, 09:57 AM

I guess I'm the only person who thinks this is about the dumbest thing ever. A huge resolution is fine on a huge monitor because you have the physical real estate to make the displayed item appear legible. For instance, a 20" monitor at 1680X1050 displaying a 50pX50p thumbnail will take up enough room that the thumbnail will be easily discernible. you drop the monitor size down to 15.3" and crank the resolution to 2880X1800 and the same 50pX50p thumbnail is now about 1/2 the physical size or smaller than it was at 1680X1050 on the larger monitor.

This means you've got to double the size of icons on the desktop plus the font you use because that will shrink as well. That eats up video memory.

Glider · 06-12-2012, 03:09 PM

/me gets his glasses...

Useless...

Doomsday · 06-12-2012, 05:54 PM

Oooh..... Shiny!!! Pass!

DarkStarr · 06-12-2012, 07:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by madmat

I guess I'm the only person who thinks this is about the dumbest thing ever. A huge resolution is fine on a huge monitor because you have the physical real estate to make the displayed item appear legible. For instance, a 20" monitor at 1680X1050 displaying a 50pX50p thumbnail will take up enough room that the thumbnail will be easily discernible. you drop the monitor size down to 15.3" and crank the resolution to 2880X1800 and the same 50pX50p thumbnail is now about 1/2 the physical size or smaller than it was at 1680X1050 on the larger monitor.

This means you've got to double the size of icons on the desktop plus the font you use because that will shrink as well. That eats up video memory.

I strongly agree with this, its just dumb, higher res on 15" sure but not this, who needs a resolution this high anyways?

Doomsday · 06-13-2012, 02:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkStarr

I strongly agree with this, its just dumb, higher res on 15" sure but not this, who needs a resolution this high anyways?

Apple fanboys dude!

Apple fanboy, 'OMFSteveJobs!! Bestest product in the history of the mankinds!!'

madmat · 06-14-2012, 01:00 AM

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBo.../#.T9lx1LUpVW9

This was linked to over at another site, thought it was relevant.

Ram, soldered to the board, proprietary SSD and glued in batteries... and the display is fused together so it's a replace not repair part. Makes one feel all warm and fuzzy about laying out a bunch of money on something that can't be upgraded and probably won't live long past the warranty expiration thanks to the battery setup.

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madmat Soup Nazi Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: No soup for you! Posts: 1,639	I guess I'm the only person who thinks this is about the dumbest thing ever. A huge resolution is fine on a huge monitor because you have the physical real estate to make the displayed item appear legible. For instance, a 20" monitor at 1680X1050 displaying a 50pX50p thumbnail will take up enough room that the thumbnail will be easily discernible. you drop the monitor size down to 15.3" and crank the resolution to 2880X1800 and the same 50pX50p thumbnail is now about 1/2 the physical size or smaller than it was at 1680X1050 on the larger monitor. This means you've got to double the size of icons on the desktop plus the font you use because that will shrink as well. That eats up video memory. __________________ M4N82 Deluxe Phenom II 940 Black Edition quad core @ 3.5Ghz 2x1 gig OCZ PC26400 Platinum, 2x1gig GSkill PC26400 EVGA GTX260 Buncha drives, Some other stuff, Even more stuff, If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. --Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine Sign Me!

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madmat Soup Nazi Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: No soup for you! Posts: 1,639	http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBo.../#.T9lx1LUpVW9 This was linked to over at another site, thought it was relevant. Ram, soldered to the board, proprietary SSD and glued in batteries... and the display is fused together so it's a replace not repair part. Makes one feel all warm and fuzzy about laying out a bunch of money on something that can't be upgraded and probably won't live long past the warranty expiration thanks to the battery setup. __________________ M4N82 Deluxe Phenom II 940 Black Edition quad core @ 3.5Ghz 2x1 gig OCZ PC26400 Platinum, 2x1gig GSkill PC26400 EVGA GTX260 Buncha drives, Some other stuff, Even more stuff, If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. --Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine Sign Me!

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