PriapusZA
macrumors 6502a
Personally I wouldn't help someone so rude like this user. I've even made a note never to reply to any of his threads he makes her as he clearly doesn't appreciate "free" help / advice when given it.
MacBook Pro retina or non retina?
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Personally I wouldn't help someone so rude like this user. I've even made a note never to reply to any of his threads he makes her as he clearly doesn't appreciate "free" help / advice when given it.
Do you need to design interfaces for retina devices?
If you're wanting to design retina-optimized Mac apps, iOS apps, or web sites / web apps, then a retina MBP could be a big advantage.
You can run the iOS simulator in full retina iPad resolution (2048x1536) on the retina MBP and have it all fit on screen. That's something you definitely can't do with a non-retina model.
robvas
macrumors 68040
If you're not designing for Retina, it's worse in my opinion.
The reasoning is the upscaling looks bad. And you run into little quirks with images and such where they get doubled in size or show up as half size.
I have been playing around with pixel art games (think old 8-bit graphics) and they just look blurry and weird on my Retina. But of course, fonts and PDF's and such (as long as the program supports it, there are a few out there that still don't) look amazing. And the screen has insane viewing angles etc.
The reasoning is the upscaling looks bad. And you run into little quirks with images and such where they get doubled in size or show up as half size.
I have been playing around with pixel art games (think old 8-bit graphics) and they just look blurry and weird on my Retina. But of course, fonts and PDF's and such (as long as the program supports it, there are a few out there that still don't) look amazing. And the screen has insane viewing angles etc.
laurihoefs
macrumors 6502a
It really seems to be a strangely polarizing laptop..
I'm pretty much OS and brand agnostic. My main criteria for choosing a laptop is, that it does what I need it to do, and does it well. For my current needs the rMBP happened to be a perfect match, the laptop that finally made me choose an Apple laptop as my main computer. I chose it over similarly priced and specced HPs and Lenovos, and never actually considered the cMBP, mostly because there is no IPS option for it. Upgradeability was not an issue, as the current configuration is already specced quite a bit higher than my actual needs, it would be highly unlikely that I would need to upgrade the laptop during the four or five years I plan on using it.
But, obviously, not everyone has the same preferences or needs. Horses for courses.
As for retsina: I don't care too much for it, but I have no idea if the stuff they sell here is supposed to be good retsina or not
sofianito
macrumors 65816
vpro
macrumors 65816
A top of the line 13" cMBP should do you just perfectly fine. Otherwise the refers section on the store still has a great 17"MBP for your custom upgrade needs and the resolution / actually screen real-estate will be perfect, as long as you are not far-sighted. I'm near-sighted so everything looks good to me sitting a foot away from the screen.
I've maxed out my late 2011 2.5Ghz i7 17"MBP and she runs cooler and smoother than my maxed out 2.8Ghz r-15 MB. It is not very pro to me, it just looks sweet and I like to have it around and do some light-medium work loads while the 17" Big Sistah takes care of the larger tasks and gets it done right the first time around!
Good luck!
B...
macrumors 68000
I don't get that. A maxed out 15" rMBP is around 20% more powerful than the "Big Sistah" (Geekbench 2 64-bit). Why exactly can it only do light loads?