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How are you guys testing the beautiful new display?

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NeilRShah

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Jun 11, 2012
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Hey guys -

Finally got my hands on one of the new pros (on a "business waiting list" for three days - but finally got one!).

For those of you who also have one: how are you going about testing out the beautiful new display? Do you guys have any apps that just make you stand back and say "wow"?
 
NeilRShah said:
Hey guys -

Finally got my hands on one of the new pros (on a "business waiting list" for three days - but finally got one!).

For those of you who also have one: how are you going about testing out the beautiful new display? Do you guys have any apps that just make you stand back and say "wow"?
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If you stand back, you can't tell it's a retina display. You need to be like 12 inches away.
 
NeilRShah said:
Hey guys -

Finally got my hands on one of the new pros (on a "business waiting list" for three days - but finally got one!).

For those of you who also have one: how are you going about testing out the beautiful new display? Do you guys have any apps that just make you stand back and say "wow"?
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Call of Duty 4 allows you to run a full 2880 X 1800 resolution.

Cranked all the settings up as high as possible, even with that resolution, and it ran flawlessly. Pretty sweet.
 
NeilRShah said:
Hey guys -

For those of you who also have one: how are you going about testing out the beautiful new display? Do you guys have any apps that just make you stand back and say "wow"?
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There aren't any apps at all that take advantage of retina display besides the few updated apple ones and that one app in the Mac app store.
 
Rocky244 said:
Call of Duty 4 allows you to run a full 2880 X 1800 resolution.

Cranked all the settings up as high as possible, even with that resolution, and it ran flawlessly. Pretty sweet.
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I assume at that resolution on a 15" display you could turn off anti-aliasing?

There should be no need for it, correct?
 
corvus32 said:
I assume at that resolution on a 15" display you could turn off anti-aliasing?

There should be no need for it, correct?
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Sounds about right. I mean I put my nose against the screen and the lines still looked clear. It's strange to see images so clearly while playing a game. Anyway I ended up turning back to a normal resolution as later in the game I was dropping to around 25 to 30 fps. Which I didn't really notice but I figured at some point I would start dropping frames and I just didn't really wanna deal with that when I was sitting 3 feet away from the screen anyway.
 
2.3GHz 8Gb Ram 256Gb SSD
Just arrived this morning and I fired it up after work. Amazed at the screen even though I had the Retina IPad. Im a casual user and had ordered the 2011 MBP in March but returned it when I saw the rumors about the MBPR. Glad that I did:) My wife has a Canon EOS T3 and we are amazed at the pictures on the MBPR. I haven't made any adjustments, just fired it up and started using it. Incredible piece of hardware.
 
Amazing video of yosemite. Looks great on the mbpr , amazed at the clarity of the display. Thanks for the link.
 
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