2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads

Re:2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads by bzbarsky on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @03:22PM (#4507317)

I can't tell you for sure on the price difference.... Maybe not needing the extra stuff like the SSD housing and whatnot matters? Or maybe it's just arbitrary pricing? Or maybe a way to encourage people to buy retina machines? Who knows, outside Apple.

> I mean that they look crappy because they don't have > Retina support.

Well, more precisely they look just like they do a non-retina mbp. Which is worse than Safari or Terminal on the retina mbp, of course, but not any worse than you'd deal with if you got the non-retina machine. Or am I missing something?

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Re:2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads by w1ntermute on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @06:12PM (#4508024)

Yes, they would look the same as on a non-retina MBP. The point is that when placed right next to the Retina apps, the difference would be jarring/distracting.

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Re:2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads by bzbarsky on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @12:44PM (#4511551)

That's possible. Assuming you use any retina apps, of course. I'm looking at the apps I'm using right now, and none would actually be making full use of the retina display on a retina mbp.

I guess if/when I ran iPhoto it might look jarring. If I weren't running it full-screen on its own desktop, of course.

All of which is to say that it really depends on individual usage patterns.

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