RMBP...worth waiting for a refresh

[nolegirl01]

I've had my rMBP now for a week. I've used Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, even After Effects on it and everything seems to be working great! Sometimes even with 2 or 3 programs running at the same time and no lag whatsoever. My screen is beautiful. The only concern is that Photoshop and all the other programs are not retina ready yet so they don't look that great, but that's not my computers fault, soon they'll have an update from Adobe. Other than that my computer runs great.

This is a great machine so you're not going wrong with it. I purchased the 2.6/16GB/512GB and I'm in love. I'm a graphic designer and do animations here and there so I needed a strong computer. I'm happy.

The thing about waiting for the next generation is that you'll always be waiting for the next generation. If you buy now, apple may or may not come out with something better and different next year. But then say you buy it next year then you will face the same decision as you did this year, "What if apple comes out with something better next year?!" It's a never ending cycle. You'll never have the latest product. That is something you have to live with. Buy it this year or next year apple is still going to come out with something bigger and better the following year. I say buy it now, test it out yourself. If you like it, keep it, if not return it. If you keep it now, then in a couple years when you're mac is "old", then you can buy another one. I had a 2008 MBP and I sold it and bought this little baby I'm in typing in now and I love it! Had no issues at all so far.

 

[Liquinn]

I've had my rMBP now for a week. I've used Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, even After Effects on it and everything seems to be working great! Something even with 2 or 3 programs running at the same time and no lag whatsoever. My screen is beautiful. The only concern is that Photoshop and all the other programs are not retina ready yet so they don't look that great, but that's not my computers fault, soon they'll have an update from Adobe. Other than that my computer runs great.

This is a great machine so you're not going wrong with it. I purchased the 2.6/16GB/512GB and I'm in love. I'm a graphic designer and do animations here and there so I needed a strong computer. I'm happy.

The thing about waiting for the next generation is that you'll always be waiting for the next generation. If you buy now, apple may or may not come out with something better and different next year. But then say you buy it next year then you will face the same decision as you did this year, "What if apple comes out with something better next year?!" It's a never ending cycle. You'll never have the latest product. That is something you have to live with. Buy it this year or next year apple is still going to come out with something bigger and better the following year. I say buy it now, test it out yourself. If you like it, keep it, if not return it. If you keep it now, then in a couple years when you're mac is "old", then you can buy another one. I had a 2008 MBP and I sold it and bought this little baby I'm in typing in now and I love it! Had no issues at all so far.

That's the problem with technology, I guess once you've opened the box it's already out of date.

My iPad 1 and Poweramc G5 still work fine.

 

[stevelam]

I've had my rMBP now for a week. I've used Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, even After Effects on it and everything seems to be working great! Something even with 2 or 3 programs running at the same time and no lag whatsoever. My screen is beautiful. The only concern is that Photoshop and all the other programs are not retina ready yet so they don't look that great, but that's not my computers fault, soon they'll have an update from Adobe. Other than that my computer runs great.

This is a great machine so you're not going wrong with it. I purchased the 2.6/16GB/512GB and I'm in love. I'm a graphic designer and do animations here and there so I needed a strong computer. I'm happy.

The thing about waiting for the next generation is that you'll always be waiting for the next generation. If you buy now, apple may or may not come out with something better and different next year. But then say you buy it next year then you will face the same decision as you did this year, "What if apple comes out with something better next year?!" It's a never ending cycle. You'll never have the latest product. That is something you have to live with. Buy it this year or next year apple is still going to come out with something bigger and better the following year. I say buy it now, test it out yourself. If you like it, keep it, if not return it. If you keep it now, then in a couple years when you're mac is "old", then you can buy another one. I had a 2008 MBP and I sold it and bought this little baby I'm in typing in now and I love it! Had no issues at all so far.

sorry but no actual graphic designer is ever going to recommend running any of those adobe apps on the RMBP unless you're hooked up to an external monitor.

 

[nolegirl01]

sorry but no actual graphic designer is ever going to recommend running any of those adobe apps on the RMBP unless you're hooked up to an external monitor.

I do use an external monitor when I'm at home and I have dual monitors at the office but when you are on the road you have no choice but use your little 15'' screen...

 

[nontroppo]

I use Illustrator CS6 and Lightroom regularly on the RMBP and they display fine.

What amazes me here is that people get hysterical about resampling without understanding that this is a relative problem, compared to my 2010 MBP at 120DPI or the 109DPI of my 27" Cinema display, the resampling on the RMBP has not lost any visual information, it just isn't as sharp as it could be on a 220DPI display!!!

So giving advice to stick to a low DPI display machine/device because of resampling on a high DPI machine just shows a lack of understanding of what is happening. Let alone those advising to stick to a cMBP, with a cheaper twisted nematic, low bit-depth, smaller colour gamut, narrower viewing angle and potentially greater glare, along with the obvious lower DPI.

This doesn't even take into account how easy it is to toggle a 1:1 pixel mapping if needed using a 3rd party app.