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13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Shows Up in Benchmarks

elppa said:
What are you going to do tomorrow when the "Retina 13" delayed until January" rumour appears? ;)
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Buy a normal 13" mbp and sell it off before the launch in January :p

I loved the form factor of the air but I just couldn't get used to the screen, I have 27" iMacs at home and at the office so they made the air screen just look so dull. I know the res on the MBP is pretty dire but I would rather deal with that than the difference in colour between my machines.

It's a shame because the air really is a cracking little machine, I'm just too picky.
 
Narsqt said:
I loved the form factor of the air but I just couldn't get used to the screen, I have 27" iMacs at home and at the office so they made the air screen just look so dull. I know the res on the MBP is pretty dire but I would rather deal with that than the difference in colour between my machines.

It's a shame because the air really is a cracking little machine, I'm just too picky.
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Maybe you should check this one out: http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/30/how-to-check-for-an-lg-display-in-a-macbook-air-and-make-it-look-better/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29
Not as good as the 27" Panel, but quite a bit better :)

(Sorry, if this was posted on MacRumors too... I just got that link in my history)

Edit: Now i see it was a MacRumors user who did it. Thanks to the original creator!
 
asd789789 said:
Maybe you should check this one out: http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/30/how-to-check-for-an-lg-display-in-a-macbook-air-and-make-it-look-better/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29
Not as good as the 27" Panel, but quite a bit better :)

(Sorry, if this was posted on MacRumors too... I just got that link in my history)

Edit: Now i see it was a MacRumors user who did it. Thanks to the original creator!
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Thanks, but I had seen all about the LG panel fiasco when I was first looking to buy it was the second thing I checked for when I unboxed it. My Air didn't have an LG so I never went for that colour profile.

Again, to be fair to the air it was more down to me being overly picky about things. I wasn't too keen on the viewing angles being so tight either.
 
RoelJuun said:
There are going to be a lot of pissed off people that just bought the 13" MBP ;)
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Unless the 13" rMBP is priced at $1199, I doubt very many 2012 13" MBP purchasers, including myself, will be upset at all.

1. Weren't interested in a Retina display on our notebook computers
2. $1199 was the price that we were looking for

Now, I suspect that some of the people who purchased the 15" rMBP might be perturbed because they didn't have a choice in sizes and might have preferred a smaller notebook.

I don't need the ODD or the ethernet in my 2012 13" MBP.. however, I did want the ability to upgrade the RAM to 16gb for only $119 (Amazon) which is what I did. So, while I suspected that a 13" rMBP was possible; I had no interest in it or the price tag that it is likely to carry.
 
rovex said:
Are you saying a Retina Macbook Pro shouldn't be popular?
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Certainly not, I don't see how you took that from what I said. My question was what people see in the 13-inch version of MacBook Pros. The general response has been that they love the portability of the 13 over the 15. That's good enough a reason for me. As a couple people pointed out, I don't use my MBP on the road very often, so I don't "get it" like they do.

You know, when I was in college, I had a Powerbook 150. Nine point five glorious inches of four levels of gray (no color). It weighed about a ton, but with a two hour battery, it never left my dorm room.
 
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gpat said:
Did somebody actually buy the 13" Pro at this refresh? It was underwhelming to say the least.
(Written as a 13" Pro owner)
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I bought *9* for work, also a new MBA for myself to replace my old C2D 15".

I won't be pissed about the MBPs at work, they were bought on a grant that had an expiration date, but if there's a retina 13" in the next couple months I'll be pissed about my air!
 
Narsqt said:
Thanks, but I had seen all about the LG panel fiasco when I was first looking to buy it was the second thing I checked for when I unboxed it. My Air didn't have an LG so I never went for that colour profile.

Again, to be fair to the air it was more down to me being overly picky about things. I wasn't too keen on the viewing angles being so tight either.
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Clever move! I'm sitting in front of an MBA with a LG Display and the slower Toshiba SSD's. Ordered the Day it was released...
Well, never mind. I don't notice the difference in daily use :)
 
Krazy Bill said:
You're going to think, "Bring it on!" when that squirrely 256gb SSD ain't big enough and you can't go inside to upgrade it. Not to mention the RAM that will be soldered on the motherboard. :(

Getting closer to the end of an era folks... RIP.
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Sad and true.

They really should have removed the ODD from the fat models.
WANT: 2x SSDs--the caddies when removing the ODD = tons of wasted space.
ADD: extra Thunderbolt port + USB (like the retinas).

Rumors from last year were all about the 13" getting an ivy quad core option.
3610 or GTFO.

Performance + upgradability trumps a few millimeters in fatness.
 
Confuzzzed said:
Wasn't the LG display eventually proven to be the better of the two?!
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The LG display was said to be "lighter and a bit flat" -> washed out... I prefer the other (MacRumors) color profile. It's all a matter of opinion. If you don't have the two displays stand next to each other you can hardly see any difference ;)
 
Confuzzzed said:
Wasn't the LG display eventually proven to be the better of the two?!
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I believe it went brighter than the samsung (IIRC there was a third panel brand too?) so once you had installed the profile to fix the washed out colour you were supposedly left in a better state than if you got a non-LG panel from the start. At least that's what I read about it
 
asd789789 said:
If you don't have the two displays stand next to each other you can hardly see any difference ;)
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I did, and I preferred the LG one (once recalibrated). The only advantage of the Samsung display as far as I could tell (albeit sample size of 1) was the viewing angle which was better by a few degrees. That didn't bother me because I don't share my screen content with anyone else...
 
gnasher729 said:
I want a beautiful screen, and I want good battery life. Graphics performance to me is very secondary, while CPU performance is quite important. Everyone has different priorities. As long as supply of Retina displays is limited, Apple can build a Retina computer that appeals to a limited audience (because the limited audience still buys every Retina display they can get).
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Pointless then. If the GPU isn't strong enough, the display will be meaningless due to the limited amount of work. I want strong GPU to drive the display so that way there will be no issues with programs, applications and other computing things.
 
Bwahahaha. Integrated graphics and 2 cores in a laptop with "Pro" in its name?

Someone needs to buy Apple a new dictionary. They obviously don't understand what the word means any more.

Maybe the "Macbook Basic" would be more appropriate.

I've got no objections to them doing whatever they want with their laptop line, but keeping the old name for this low to mid-range notebook would be a joke.
 
My 2011 is only 5 months old, so I'm right there with the refresh crowd. But my MBP has been a godsend during my deployment. It's made my life so much easier during this trip that I probably wouldn't have had the same results with my PC laptop. So, do I regret it? Nope. I'll look into this retina model when the next batch of MacBooks come out. Plus, the price on that thing is going to be horrendous anyway. It gives me plenty of time to start saving up.
 
MBP 13" just a failure

Apple has been very frugal since they have modified the GPU card of the 13" macbook pro series. They used to come with dedicated gpu then they switched to intel graphics card. I believe there is no need for a 13" macbook pro unless you do hard video editing or running graphics hungry applications like Zbrush and Maya. I used a 13" i7 macbook pro but I came short of my studies cause I was running Maya on the MBP and each time I had to bear with the sluggish processor. it doesnt matter what they claim with the new Ivy Bridge processor but it is impossible to benefit from a macbook pro full fledged unless it has a dedicated graphics card. I dont care about the retina display on the MBP. they better straighten up the graphics card on the 13" mbp. It is not a ultrabook and If they will adjust the price like $1499 on the new 13" mbp it is a great waste of money cause it will still have no dedicated GPU. i dont care about the zebra's beautiful eyelash on a retina display. I like performance and smoothly running applications. I think Apple failed the class by bringing up the so-called retina innovation as a cutting-edge innovation for Apple. Real Apple consumers actually look for performance based innovations than a new display innovation . They better revamp the 13" macbook pro with some beefy hardware. Brawnier the better on macbook pro

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jav6454 said:
Pointless then. If the GPU isn't strong enough, the display will be meaningless due to the limited amount of work. I want strong GPU to drive the display so that way there will be no issues with programs, applications and other computing things.
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I totally agree with you.
 
charlieegan3 said:
And this makes you happy?:eek:
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Clearly, if in five years time someone said "I bought this MBP 5 years ago, and it is still totally up-to-date", that wouldn't be good news. If Apple shows a MBP next week that makes todays MBP look totally outdated, that would be excellent news.

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jav6454 said:
Pointless then. If the GPU isn't strong enough, the display will be meaningless due to the limited amount of work. I want strong GPU to drive the display so that way there will be no issues with programs, applications and other computing things.
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There are plenty of applications that will have no issues at all with a 2560x1600 display and the latest integrated graphics. Sure, if you are into playing computer games, that's something else, but that's not what I use a computer for.
 
gnasher729 said:
Clearly, if in five years time someone said "I bought this MBP 5 years ago, and it is still totally up-to-date", that wouldn't be good news. If Apple shows a MBP next week that makes todays MBP look totally outdated, that would be excellent news.

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There are plenty of applications that will have no issues at all with a 2560x1600 display and the latest integrated graphics. Sure, if you are into playing computer games, that's something else, but that's not what I use a computer for.
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correct
 
gnasher729 said:
There are plenty of applications that will have no issues at all with a 2560x1600 display and the latest integrated graphics. Sure, if you are into playing computer games, that's something else, but that's not what I use a computer for.
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However, we are not using a 2560x1600 display are we? We are using that pixel amount to make a 1280x800 emulation with "retina" graphics. In other words, we are driving 4x pixels to make pictures look sharper, smoother and crisper.

At 2560x1600 native there is no issue, but making that into a 1280x800 configuration requires heavy computing in the GPU. Hence why the iPad got a quad GPU in it (up from a dual).
 
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