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icanboogie

macrumors regular
Original poster
Nov 12, 2008
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Berlin
Just had a chance of playing with RMBP 2.3 in store, and:

1. screen is really perfect for reading texts, at least in apps with retina-support, eg. safari & preview. for pictures and videos, the improvement is not quite that drastic IMHO. 2. Rescaling is very handy and does not produce blur like the old gen MBPs.

but: the whole system felt kinda sluggish! changing windows, fullscreen-mode, etc., hd-videos, etc.

(This is *not* snappy, Apple!)

What do you think: How much CPU/GPU power could this permanent rescaling/doubling/quadruppling/whatever eat up?

Is there any retina-setting which could be regarded as more "energy-efficient" or, well, "less sluggish"? I heard that 1440 does not cost as much power as does 1920?! Would be a shame if much of the progress in CPU/GPU/RAM etc would be given away to the need of arranging pixels in view.
 
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Stetrain

macrumors 68040
Feb 6, 2009
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In theory the "Best for Retina" should use the least power since it isn't doing any whole-screen scaling after it renders.

Some users have said that the developer version of Mountain Lion has much better all around performance on the Retina MBP.
 
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