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about 1 hour ago 7 comments
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We review software based on what comes on the device itself — ecosystem is a whole different animal. And what comes with the new MBP is designed for the retina display, so we score it as such.
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 3 recommends
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If you loan me $2,200 I’ll find out.
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 5 recommends
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Here’s a Word screenshot, of the text of the MBP review:
Basically it looks bad. Text is really blurry and jaggy, and even the UI elements and icons are hard to look at.
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply
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So you guys all run both OS X and Windows, frequently? Doesn’t that get confusing and frustrating, switching between OSes all the time?
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 5 replies
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It definitely does get bigger, but it’s not particularly noticeable. Except now that you’ve mentioned it, I’ll probably never be able to un-see it.
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply 1 recommend
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Basically, anything that makes the computer switch from integrated to discrete graphics will also make the computer get really hot.
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply 1 recommend
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It’s on my lap right now, and it’s a little warm but not overly so. It gets uncomfortable during games or anything really processor-heavy (even, like, Lightroom), but for simple stuff stays within a usable range for sure.
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply 1 recommend
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I just asked James Chae, our designer, and he said he thinks so. He mentioned that being able to have a much larger picture in frame at once would be huge, and you don’t have to choose between zoomed in and seeing a lot of the picture at once. You can also get deeper and more accurate with so many pixels available As far as 3D models, I’m not sure — they’d look nice, but I don’t know if it would really change your workflow.
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 2 replies 1 recommend
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I think this is sad, but true. Browser updates will help a lot (just rendering text better would improve the experience enormously), but a lot of UI elements (like this site’s logo, for instance) are going to take a while to be updated. The iPad made a lot of people update, but I don’t know that this will get the traction the iPad did and make people adapt.
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply 1 recommend
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Just downloaded. It looks SO much better! Check it (Canary on the left, stable Chrome on the right): http://imgur.com/19ARu
about 15 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply 8 recommends
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THAT RULES.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 3 recommends
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I think it is, and basically second what Dube said. It sounds really expensive, but the base model is a pretty high-end machine, especially compared to base models of other laptops.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply 2 recommends
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Yep!
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 2 recommends
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A lot of things look a little better, mostly because everything just gets smaller. Ugly text stays ugly, though, unfortunately.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 recommend
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What is this “theverge.com” you speak of?
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 8 recommends
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They’re considerably louder, and much fuller and clearer. I was immediately impressed, actually — you’re still going to want to buy a good set of headphones or external speakers, but when Apple claims these are the best speakers it’s ever put into a laptop I buy it.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 3 recommends
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Sorry, I’m stealing it and fleeing to Mexico. Already called dibs.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply
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Not great, but not terrible. Fortunately the screen gets really bright, so you can make it go away a bit, but there’s not really any improvement in glare since last year’s models.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 recommend
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I’ll say this: if I were buying one, I’d buy 2.3 — I don’t need the extra storage (which you can only get with 2.6) and the games and apps I’ve tried haven’t stumbled at all on 2.3. But for some uses, I’m sure more power is always better.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply
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It does, but the base does wobble a bit as you open it. You can get it up there, but it’s not as rock-solid as the last model.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A;
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This is definitely something we’ll test as we put the Pro through its paces on Windows. Stay tuned!
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A;
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This is really interesting. I want to know: why buy a MacBook if you want to run Windows? And do you use virtualization, or just use BootCamp?
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 3 replies 1 recommend
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Generally, Safari’s really good, because most of the web is text and Safari renders it properly for the Retina display. But in Chrome, or Firefox? It’s pretty rough. Images aren’t a huge difference because images aren’t super crisp anyway, but low-quality images do look a little worse than normal. Browsing’s pretty rough right now, especially if you’re married to Chrome like I am.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 2 replies
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We haven’t actually tested the 2.7GHz model, but what I can say is that we didn’t notice a material difference between the 2.3 and 2.6GHz models — a couple FPS in games, but nothing extraordinary. Given that, I can’t imagine there’s a giant leap between the two.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply
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Can you pick one for us to try? I can’t think of one off the top of my head.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 2 replies
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I just did that exact thing, and the biggest difference was text — I could still read relatively normal-sized text on the Pro, where on the Air everything was a little blurry. As a TV / movie device, too, it’s a big difference just in terms of contrast and vividness of colors.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 reply
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We weren’t able to for this review, but we’re working on it, and we’ll have lots to say on the subject soon!
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 recommend
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Basically? It’s just a lot better. Blacks and whites are much more, well… black and white. Contrast is better, text is sharper, and the whole display is just much more vivid. And as Dante said, “blacks just look inky.” So that’s good I guess.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 2 replies
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We’ve been wondering this too, and it’s going to be really interesting. Apple.com is serving retina-specific assets only to retina devices, but some sites might just start serving giant images to everyone. That could get rough in a hurry.
about 16 hours ago on MacBook Pro with Retina display: The Verge Q&A; 1 recommend