Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with...
by smithian on Monday June 11, 2012 @06:40PM
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But won't you get more real-life real-estate out of the 1080p display? I thought that for normal apps and the web etc. the retina display was pixel-doubled for an effective real-estate equivalent to 1440x900? I get that it's better for photography and video, and if those are your primary workflows I would understand. For me, I'm trying to figure out why 1440x900 equivalent is so awesome that it would prompt all the other headaches of switching platforms.
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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with...
by glhaynes on Monday June 11, 2012 @10:12PM
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I haven't used a Mac with a retina display yet, but I have noticed that when I went from an iPhone 3GS (non-retina) to a 4 (retina), suddenly tons of websites that I previously had to zoom to read were easily readable as-is — lots of text that had been literally illegible at "100%" was now pretty readable and text that was bigger but still small enough to be fuzzy was now crystal clear.
I don't know how much that will translate over to a computer, but it wouldn't surprise me if people who work with text a lot (including programmers) are able to comfortably use significantly smaller font sizes than they ever were able to before.