[OSX-Users] Re: 13" MBP + Retina display

[Steve Harris]

I've got the 15" one, and use it on the highest res setting ("looks like 1920x1200") - you need good eyesight, but you can cram a *lot* onto the screen. It's great for editing word documents and the like, as you can scale docs down really small and still read them.

I had to turn up the font size on terminals, but I can still get three-and-a-bit 80 col ones across the screen. 

You still wouldn't want to carry the 15" one around with you, though it's lighter than the old thick ones. Mine lives on my desk. Not sure how heavy the 13" is in practice.

- Steve

On 2013-02-17, at 16:43, "m.c. schraefel" <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> don't have one, but all i can say is that the balance in the hand is incredible, Tim. 
> how if feels carrying it in a pack, dunno...
> but picking up and working with in situ, 
> it FEELS wonderful, light, and the screen - well you notice it reading documents - i don't get much from it in other contexts.
> hope someone else can answer about scaling.
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> On 17 Feb 2013, at 16:38, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Has anyone got one of these, esp. now the price has come down?
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>> I'm interested in any comments, but in particular how the display looks when scaled to 1680x1050, given the default 'optimal' setting is 1280x800 (half the screen resolution of 2560x1600).  I do like having extra screen real estate :)
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>> It sounds like they've tried to make it rather lighter, by leaving out the optical drive, though still a few hundred g heavier than the Air.
>> 
>> Tim
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