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A comment on RMBP 13?.

Re:RMBP 13? by thelogos on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:42AM (#7250916)
I'm not sure how linux handles high resolution but osx only makes the display crisper. You have the option of making everything smaller but that's not quite optimized. If rmbp boots into windows, it has the same issue, last time I check.

If you're getting rmbp, I would go with the 15 in model. 13 in only uses integrated graphic which has trouble handling the high resolution.

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Re:RMBP 13? by catinsocks on Monday February 17, 2014 @11:02AM (#7252649)
What trouble? I haven't had any issues so far, maybe if you want to play games at that resolution it would be a problem.
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Re:RMBP 13? by thelogos on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:09PM (#7254849)
I'm not sure if the new version is any different but anandtech did bring up the issue of low framerate while scrolling in some webpages. It was really noticeable when I tried it in the store. Even the 15in has trouble with low framerate sometimes too.
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Re:RMBP 13? by catinsocks on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @11:03AM (#7258794)
I don't know maybe the intel iris (I think 5100) is a substantial improvement, the only review I found on anandtech was for 2012 version which had the hd4000. Or maybe the performance increase from haswell has helped.

Either that or it is something I don't run into. I don't play games really but I haven't noticed any frame lag when scrolling.

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