I Can Haz Retina Display MBP

After nearly four years of using my trusted old late-2008 MacBook Pro, I finally upgraded to the much-talked about MacBook Pro Retina Display.

To be fair, it is a work laptop so doesn’t technically belong to me. However, I have admin access so can install all the apps I have bought. The Retina Display is amazing; the text renders amazingly and if designed to retina-compatibility, icons and graphics are crisp and sharp. You feel good just writing a simple text document on it and reading is so much better. On the flip side, now websites not designed, this site included, for retina display appear so crappy; WordPress is compatible though.

To top that, it has 8GB RAM and a 250GB SSD hard drive that makes things super fast. It does lack an optical drive so I haven’t been able to install my statistics software on it ^[1]. Although it is the same OS as on my old Mac, having a new machine just feels…better.

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SAS will have to be run remotely off the Windows machine at work [↩]

“I Can Haz Retina Display MBP” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=3973] was published Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 at 2:45 pm by Patrix, filed under Personal. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.

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I’ve tried thrice now, but I can’t get used to native retina resolution – hurts my eyes and gives me a headache. The next setting up (more space) works like a charm though. I am not sure how much of true retina I am missing though by going one step up, but it works for me. You are right though – the text looks amazing on this display.
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  I remember you mentioning that but I’ve no such problem. But I did try out different scaling resolutions. I plan to spend some time with the one step up too.

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