[OSX-Users] Re: new 15 retina - it does seem very nice in the hands

[m.c. schraefel]

i dunno phil

i do know that if both size and weight weren't an issue for me that i'd be going well i'm just gonna get a retina. Afterall - there's so many more pixels.

to be clear - i'm talking as well about balance and hand feel here 
in the hand, there's no comparison between the 11 and the 15r - 
the 11 just disappears. wow. 
whereas with the 13 and the 15, it gets slightly tougher.

For me it was that difference that was just enough to go for the 11 rather than the 13, despite the screen loss.

That in the hand balance test is not to me the same as the backpack test where something that doubles in weight from 2.25 to 4.5 lbs can go under the detectable load feel. But i'm not sure. 4.5 may just be a doable load. 

when the feel between the 13 to 15 doesn't seem that much, and the 15 has that much more of a performance improvement, i guess i'm suggesting that where the move from an 11 to a 13 mayn't be worth the weight change, the 11 to the 15 may be - if those other features of the 15 have that value.  

The new 15 may also be a sign just to hold fast and SEE what a 13 retina pro is like - that MAY be the next sweet spot. 

dunno. 


On 23 Jun 2012, at 12:06, Philip Boulain wrote:

> On 23/06/2012 18:34, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>> It's 4.5lbs (so 2k) and that sounds heavy after a 2lb Air - but in the hands it didn't feel much more heavy than the 13 air.
>> I know it IS but it doesn't feel it.  And it is noticeably thinner than the current macbook pros.
> 
> Wait.
> 
> Wasn't there a *massive* hoo-hah about how the point of the Air was that the weight difference vs the Pros, which utterly dominated it in OS X-flavoured-functionality-per-buck, was important?
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