The Problem With The Macbook Pro's Retina Display

Re:The Problem With The Macbook Pro's Retina Display by Steko on Monday August 20, 2012 @03:28PM (#4409341)

It's disappointing that Apple didn't include some obvious retina friendly system preferences. System font size, ui scaling, true native retina resolution, etc.

That said I think the sky is falling impression here is overblown:

"It means my Retina display, while being 125% sharper than my the HD display on my Sony, has 44% less screen space!"

Isn't this only true if 100% of your screen is taken up by ui elements from non-updated applications? Isn't this the sort of problem that's common with early adoption?

"What it does is render the whole screen at a different resolution, say 1920×1200, and then scale it up, using the graphics hardware, to 2880×1800! This means everything gets blurred. I.e. I get less crispness than a native 1920×1200 display would give me."

There are third party apps that will display at true 2880 x 1800:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/18/3-ways-to-run-a-retina-macboo...

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Re:The Problem With The Macbook Pro's Retina Display by jamescun on Monday August 20, 2012 @07:50PM (#4410407)

> It's disappointing that Apple didn't include some obvious retina friendly system preferences. System font size, ui scaling, true native retina resolution, etc.

They did. Granted not all in one menu, but all exist within system preferences. It even asks you after first install if you want to be at "Retina Optimised" resolution or native resolution.

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