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

[electronic Max]

Pertaining to the new 15", you might want to read AnandTech's review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-review

Lots of positive reviews, but one problem for me was that apparently the resolution of the new retina display put a considerable strain on the graphics pipeline and in many cases dropped the rendering fps, which apparently makes transitions between pages and responsiveness sluggish (< 20fps) for certain apps including in some cases Safari

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-review/8

The extra pixels are nice, but not sure I want to pay responsiveness penalty for it. I love the blindingly fast page rendering speed I get on my current MBP, so I think it's time to wait.    Not being able to swap the RAM or SSD is also a killer - particularly since SSDs are improving so quickly.

Max

On Jun 25, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Andrew Paul Landells wrote:

> On 23 Jun 2012, at 20:06, 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?
> 
> Yes, there was. Past tense. The current crop of Airs are at the budget end of the Apple laptop range and it appears that Apple are bringing the two ranges in line with one another. It wouldn't surprise me if we see Apple consolidate to a single range of laptops, in 11", 13" and 15" flavours in the non-too-distant future.
> 
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