That would need a much more powerful GPU which would hurt the MBA's great battery life.
I'm not sold on retina yet either... I don't want to allocate that significant amount of my CPU and GPU to retina which would in turn decrease overall performance. I need that boost for design and rendering. In other words, I don't want to wait around all day while looking at a pretty screen with the loading wheel on it...
Good for you guys who can buy a new Mac every two years, just because your "maxed out" previous MBP or Air is not enough anymore...I'm gonna stay with my 2011 MBA 13" until 2014-2015 at least, but I wish you will enjoy your new Retina Pros .-)
I'm not sure what's the point of a retina macbook pro 13 inch, since the lighter and thinner form factor 13'' is already available in the form of a macbook air. That is already a pretty powerful computer for daily use. Unless people are in the market for a 13" with discrete graphics.
Which, sadly enough, is going to be the end of the road for me and OS X. I will not buy notebooks, as I have no need for a portable computing device other than the iPad, and I will not buy an iMac, as I don't see why I should buy a new display every time I buy a new Mac (and I like to have a choice when it comes to displays).
I don't even know which other platform I could move to when Apple decides that they don't want me as a customer anymore. I am certainly not going back to Windows.![]()
Second, I agree that a 13" rMBP could take away sales from the 13" MBA. But it will definitely completely kill off the 13" MBP. Which is as Apple planned it: it's clear they did nothing except the absolute minimum to disguise that the 13" was a dying product that happened to bring in loads of cash.
The 15" MBP will continue in retina and non-retina versions as it does at the moment.
Please tell apple that this is their time to concentrate on getting a great iphone out. If they drop the ball on that, I am going to android period.
Mobile GPUs still exist in the real world and not on some fantasy alternate plane of existence.
Knowing Apple, the GPU is the upsell.Ehh, sort-of. They exist in the Windows world, but in the Apple world, they only exist in 15" and 17" MBP's. I would love to buy a 13" with a discrete graphics card, but I have little hope.
Imagine if the panel had it's glass built into it, and suction cups were the only things needed to pop the panel out to get to the inside? No more fumbling with T8 bits, etc. That would be really nice - just a speculation though.
I just left Tim a message, but from his voicemail greeting, I can only surmise he's busy.
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Ehh, sort-of. They exist in the Windows world, but in the Apple world, they only exist in 15" and 17" MBP's. I would love to buy a 13" with a discrete graphics card, but I have little hope.
I thought you were talking about the iMac and hoping for a desktop GPU, instead of mobile GPU and were referring to the mobile GPU in iMacs as imaginary. My apologies.
Oh no worries, this is about the iMac too![]()
13" Retina MBP & New iPhone...
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I just got my 13 MBP, so please don't release it this year. This update cycle is way too short.
The retina display on the rMBP has no glass covering the display. There must be some protective layer laminated over the display, or it could be damaged too easily. Heck, I have a Samsung LCD TV that was damaged by foam toy that one of the kids threw a little too close to it. Prior to that, it was a nice TV, but unfortunately the protective covering was insufficient. It's quite possible that a protective covering that Apple is using for the display is not adhering well, or that the adhesive is causing discoloration, as was seen in some previous iMacs.
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It will be a real GPU, but a portable one, as dictated by the form factor, unfortunately. Whether it's expensive will depend on your point of view - it will be more than the current iMac, but you won't be able to buy anything else like it for any price.
It would be nice if that's what it was. The iPod Touch is thinner, has a smaller battery, a slower processor, less RAM, an inferior camera and no GPS. Aside from being thinner, all of the differences make it a significantly inferior product.oh I don't know. Right now the iPod Touch is basically an iPhone that doesn't make phone calls. ...
It appears that the Air has taken the place of the Mac Book (and iBook before it). It is the low-cost model with the small footprint, light weight and missing several popular ports. I think this tradition will remain, with the MBP being the "power user" model and the Air being the "lightweight on the go" model.... There does seem to be a blurring of the distinction between MBP and Air...
I guess eventually, the aim will be to have every product with a retina display. They have done it with the iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad and now the rMBP. Just the rest to migrate to the technology now... I guess it will come eventually though![]()
Possibly, but the new displays have other features beyond high resolution. For instance, the display elements are affixed to the glass, instead of having a glass cover. That's probably more significant than simply packing in more pixels.If LCD displays are having lamination issues when they haven't in the past, I would think it's the new Retina technology that's making the lamination difficult. Making much finer pixels (higher pixel density) requires much more than just making smaller pixels, there are other interesting electrical properties that occur with the higher pixel density.
Hopefully "tweaked internals for the full-size iPad" will turn out to be a die shrink for the A5X inside the iPad3 to 32nm or possibly smaller. A decrease in heat and power consumption would be welcome.