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

[Steve Harris]

Though the "looks like" resolution is the same as the old one, that means you can read documents scaled down much smaller than before, without the window furniture etc. being tiny. I like tiny Window furniture, so I turn the "looks like" res right up.

Because you can read tiny text sizes it's tempting to leave everything as small as you can, which probably does bad things to your eyesight.

Overall I love the retina screens though.

- Steve

On 2013-02-17, at 22:35, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> I agree mc, having had a 'brief encounter' with one not long ago I was impressed how it felt, that it was light (not THAT different to a 13" Air), and the retina screen looked really great.  Just odd (to me) that with that quality display the resolution was still effectively the same as before, by default. I didn't have time to play much with it, or try the alternative screen sizes. Of course you could simply swap from the 'optimal' retina setting to the 1680x1050 layout depending on what you're doing.
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> Maybe I'll visit the Apple shop :)
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> Tim
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> On 17 Feb 2013, at 16:43, m.c. schraefel <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>> Tim
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