Does the Retina screen make watching movies better? I mean, does the increased resolution of the Retina translate to a DVD? Downloaded movie? HD movie? Or is it just the same?
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Movies and Retina
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vpro
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Well, personally, I really, really like that I'm unable to see individual pixels now at a normal viewing distance. There was some post earlier talking about how the "retina"-type displays SHOULD be the norm.
Additionally, I can easily change the scale of the screen so that say I can easily see multiple windows at one time - it's really helped streamline a few processes I do in my normal work when I'm away from an external display.
In regards to watching movies, I would say the viewing experience is generally improved over other mac laptops - yeah, you're not going to see things in super HD - but the colors on the retina panel are much improved and the blacks are fantastic.
mrsir2009
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You'll gain when web browsing because of the crisper text and CSS styling, and as the rMBP gets more popular you'll gain in apps that are designed for the retina display 🙂
vpro
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Saladinos
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Personally, the appeal of the retina display to me is text quality.
I spend half my life in front of enormous text files in XCode.
The highest non-Retina resolution on a current MacBook Pro is 1680x1050 (optional) on a 15, and 1280*800 on a 13. So the Retina models are the only ones that will display a 1920*1080 HD video in full resolution.
Geckotek
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Edit: Yes and yes.
http://cdtobie.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/retina-display-macbook-pro-for-calibration-and-photography/
But we are stuck waiting on Adobe for Retina support. 🙁
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