Apple MacBook Pro Retina Display Review
Apple MacBook Pro Retina Display Review
When Apple introduced the MacBook Air in 2008, shook the entire PC industry. In a few years the world's thinnest notebook "arose from a super-slim novelty to a viable computing solution for the dispatch of other producers in a mad rush to their own highly portable ultra-books issued. We are now surrounded by a bunch of PC notebooks, that looks strikingly similar to Air from Apple.
And now we come to that same game, only playing in the top of the laptop compartment.
With its newest MacBook Pro, Apple has established a different set of design and construction philosophies for PC makers to follow, this time for high-performance machines. The next wave of notebook computers will be even slimmer. They will lose their optical drives. The utility is limited. And the scenes to get better - much better.
MacBook Pro was once the domain of professional graphic artists, video editors and engineers who have a tremendous amount of energy required in a portable package, but if Apple's standard MacBook retirement became the de facto standard for any budding screenwriter in coffee shops in the country. That all seems to change with the new generation of MacBook Pro and it is all the beautiful Retina display.
Looking beyond the jargon of Apple (Retina definition depends on which unit your business - see what MacBook Retina display means to you for details) of 15.4 inch, 2880 x 1800 screen is still the world's first to squeeze more pixels into a laptop than ever before. A full HD video is positively dwarfed by the rest of the screen, leaving plenty of room for a timeline and play determines whether you are working on a video project. Photos show much more detail without having to zoom, making it ideal for imaging.
OS X has been completely rewritten to make the most of the extra pixels to make a higher resolution icons and text, and updated applications. OS X scales icons and text on the higher resolution to adapt, so that unlike when you run Windows on a small screen with high resolution, you do not end up with small icons that are difficult to use. Unfortunately, this means that all programs that still must be adapted to most of the higher resolution does not really show the text, with fuzzy and hard to read. For example, Safari beautiful high-resolution text, but the current version of Chrome is sharp text. Google is in the midst of updating its browser and the latest Canary Developer edition makes the text correctly for Retina screen.
Web images look depends on how the site works. On our website, the logo looks a little uneven, but inline images in reviews is nice and clear, and has more detail than what the same page on a normal 1080p display. This is because the logo is a solid solution, but the product inline images uploaded to 800x640, and then reduced to fit up less space in the network. The Retina-ready browsers have more pixels in the same physical space, so more pixels to retrieve the original image, and hence show more detail.
MacBook IPS panel has almost unlimited viewing angle, and there is more than enough to tilt the screen glossy finish that looks like a small amount of light back to the user control. We have never seen this screen before - it's sublime.
Of course, Apple did not just an upgrade of the screen - the whole laptop has been redesigned and the aluminum chassis has been slimmed down to an incredible 18mm. Despite the small proportions, you still get two USB3 ports, two Thunderbolt ports, an HDMI output, SD card reader and a 3.5 mm headset audio jack, so there is no compromise in terms of connectivity.
The house is also groundbreaking, Ivy Bridge with an Intel processor, 8GB RAM, a 256GB SSD SATA3 and dedicated Nvidia graphics. The i3-3610QM quad-core processor running at 2.3 GHz, but can also use Turbo Boost to hit 3.3GHz on the thermal limits as possible. As expected, performance was spectacular - our multimedia benchmarks into an overall score of 111, this is one of the fastest laptop we've ever seen does.
The special GT 650M graphics chipset helps in the treatment of high-definition video, but it is still capable of playing modern games. There is 1 GB of dedicated RAM, which helped reduce the effects of the anti-aliasing in our Call of Duty 4 test. An average frame rate of 30.8 must mean that very few games will have trouble playing smoothly - as long as you stick to 720p resolutions. COD4 is still playing of 2,880 x 1, 800, but only with the anti-aliasing disabled. More graphically intensive titles will require you detailed settings to maintain a solid framerate. It also requires developers to add support for the Retina display their games at the moment, Diablo 3 is running at a playable frame rate of 2,880 x1, 800
When Apple introduced the MacBook Air in 2008, shook the entire PC industry. In a few years the world's thinnest notebook "arose from a super-slim novelty to a viable computing solution for the dispatch of other producers in a mad rush to their own highly portable ultra-books issued. We are now surrounded by a bunch of PC notebooks, that looks strikingly similar to Air from Apple.
And now we come to that same game, only playing in the top of the laptop compartment.
With its newest MacBook Pro, Apple has established a different set of design and construction philosophies for PC makers to follow, this time for high-performance machines. The next wave of notebook computers will be even slimmer. They will lose their optical drives. The utility is limited. And the scenes to get better - much better.
MacBook Pro was once the domain of professional graphic artists, video editors and engineers who have a tremendous amount of energy required in a portable package, but if Apple's standard MacBook retirement became the de facto standard for any budding screenwriter in coffee shops in the country. That all seems to change with the new generation of MacBook Pro and it is all the beautiful Retina display.
Looking beyond the jargon of Apple (Retina definition depends on which unit your business - see what MacBook Retina display means to you for details) of 15.4 inch, 2880 x 1800 screen is still the world's first to squeeze more pixels into a laptop than ever before. A full HD video is positively dwarfed by the rest of the screen, leaving plenty of room for a timeline and play determines whether you are working on a video project. Photos show much more detail without having to zoom, making it ideal for imaging.
OS X has been completely rewritten to make the most of the extra pixels to make a higher resolution icons and text, and updated applications. OS X scales icons and text on the higher resolution to adapt, so that unlike when you run Windows on a small screen with high resolution, you do not end up with small icons that are difficult to use. Unfortunately, this means that all programs that still must be adapted to most of the higher resolution does not really show the text, with fuzzy and hard to read. For example, Safari beautiful high-resolution text, but the current version of Chrome is sharp text. Google is in the midst of updating its browser and the latest Canary Developer edition makes the text correctly for Retina screen.
Web images look depends on how the site works. On our website, the logo looks a little uneven, but inline images in reviews is nice and clear, and has more detail than what the same page on a normal 1080p display. This is because the logo is a solid solution, but the product inline images uploaded to 800x640, and then reduced to fit up less space in the network. The Retina-ready browsers have more pixels in the same physical space, so more pixels to retrieve the original image, and hence show more detail.
MacBook IPS panel has almost unlimited viewing angle, and there is more than enough to tilt the screen glossy finish that looks like a small amount of light back to the user control. We have never seen this screen before - it's sublime.
Of course, Apple did not just an upgrade of the screen - the whole laptop has been redesigned and the aluminum chassis has been slimmed down to an incredible 18mm. Despite the small proportions, you still get two USB3 ports, two Thunderbolt ports, an HDMI output, SD card reader and a 3.5 mm headset audio jack, so there is no compromise in terms of connectivity.
The house is also groundbreaking, Ivy Bridge with an Intel processor, 8GB RAM, a 256GB SSD SATA3 and dedicated Nvidia graphics. The i3-3610QM quad-core processor running at 2.3 GHz, but can also use Turbo Boost to hit 3.3GHz on the thermal limits as possible. As expected, performance was spectacular - our multimedia benchmarks into an overall score of 111, this is one of the fastest laptop we've ever seen does.
The special GT 650M graphics chipset helps in the treatment of high-definition video, but it is still capable of playing modern games. There is 1 GB of dedicated RAM, which helped reduce the effects of the anti-aliasing in our Call of Duty 4 test. An average frame rate of 30.8 must mean that very few games will have trouble playing smoothly - as long as you stick to 720p resolutions. COD4 is still playing of 2,880 x 1, 800, but only with the anti-aliasing disabled. More graphically intensive titles will require you detailed settings to maintain a solid framerate. It also requires developers to add support for the Retina display their games at the moment, Diablo 3 is running at a playable frame rate of 2,880 x1, 800
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