New MacBook retina screen not as sharp as other retina screens?

[AdonisSMU]

You people should learn to read and get som basic knowledge on how retina displays are working. The answer to why the rMB screen out-of-the-box doesn't look as sharp as the retina MBP is already in post number 5 and repeated several times in other post. What's the point in repeating the same answer, unless you are dumb of course.

I have a retina display MBP and there is another post right after the post you are alluding to which states accurately that the difference is negligible at best. I've never not used a scaled resolution on a retina display. I've owned a 15" rMBP and a 13" rMBP....both scaled to the highest they could go. What would be interesting to figure out is the scaled-equivalent PPI or adjusting them all to their best for retina PPI and then compare? On the former I don't know other than the difference wasn't noticeable. On the latter you are left with the base PPI of the display.

Don't get all condescending when you aren't offering up any answers to the question. The correct answer is we don't know what the scaling actually does to the resolution currently (ie how much scaling degrades the resolution). Also the original poster asked about Retina Display being as sharp as the rMBP and the answer is we don't know...accept in the case of the 13" display we know it's the superior to both the 15" rMBP and the rMB in terms of pixel density.

 

[Traverse]

Well, by default the MacBook runs at a scaled 1280 x 800. On my 15" rMBP, scaled resolutions are always grainier than the true 2x retina, but that would only be 1152 x 720 on the new MacBook which is a small amount of screen space.