New MBP Retina
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- lowimpakt0
for me it's a design fail because of the bad environmental performance.
no amount of retina BS can make up for the fact it's landfill fodder.
on the plus side, apple just did a very quick u-turn on pulling out of EPEAT certification
- raf0
"for me it's a design fail because of the bad environmental performance."
What do you suggest then? What do we buy instead? Serious question.
If you heard about the u-turn, you probably read Apple's answer—not only they claim to be most environmentally friendly and energy-efficient out there, they now call to push the standards on environmental requirements. A cheeky move on their side since their hardware is supposedly far ahead of the competition in this regard.
- use you're old one for time beinglowimpakt
- your. fuck.lowimpakt
- The thing with Macs is they retain their value, hence they don't need recycling as soon as other laptops.raf
- They also cost twice as much, so percentage wise, they plummet in value like everything else tech wiseformed
- No they don't. I will recoup 75-80% of what I paid form my MB Air 10 months ago and get a new one soon.raf
- ernexbcn0
An update from Apple regarding EPEAT:
- whereRI0
bump!
anyone have one? reaaallly need a new machine, dunno whether to hold out for the next update
- monkeyshine0
my coworker bought one. She loves it and it is beautiful. But she has to change resolution to work in Photoshop for now. I guess that's a short term problem. She also had a terrible time setting it up on our work network but other than that she seems happy.
- spot130
Pros:
- blazingly fast with ssd
- smaller and lighter
- great battery life
- excellant speakersCons
- the web and old applications like CS4 look blurry on retina
- thunderbolt replaces mini-dvi and dvi so you need to buy adapters
- the old power adapters don't fit anymore without an adapter
- they reversed the trackpad scrolling so that's annoying (down is up, up is down - wtf)- oh ya, and there is no network cable port so you need a thunderbolt adapter there toospot13
- uh, that trackpad is fully customizable. you can change the scrolling to any direction you want in the Settings.CanHasQBN
- I actually prefer the new scrolling. It really does make more sense.monospaced
- I think it makes sense if you are also using an iPhone or tablet (consistency)ribit
- whatever. it's still a conspot13
- how can it be a con if it's a non-issue?monospaced
- whereRI0
arg 3500 euro to drop.
- craigatkinson0
if you get a retina display your work will look better on your comp than on anyone elses. You'll get used to this and forget that it'll look relatively shit to whoever you send it to. I'd wait till all displays are retina
- hehe truewhereRI
- i work with 2 screens anywaywhereRI
- what happens when retina2 comes out next year for the ipad-macro 5 launch and then everything will be more fucked upspot13
- I think apple is shooting themselves in the foot by not making retina an open standardspot13
- yeh, they'll be the fuckedestcraigatkinson
- clearThoughts0
^ why everybody is shocked to see how shit Instagram images look on a computer screen. The iPhone makes everything look amazing.
- craigatkinson0
@whereRI you might as well just get one, asking us to justify your purchase wont work, and even if we all said no you'd still buy it, just a day later.
I doubt I'll buy another MBP to be fair. Prob a windows or google one if they make a good one
- VectorMasked0
It'd better kick ass. Just order mine.
- or else what?monospaced
- class action lawsuitVectorMasked
- hah. hope for the best, VM.akrok
- inteliboy0
Got a mbp retina a few days ago - the thing is amazing. My older laptop now looks all blurry and seems so slowww. Hi-density displays are no doubt going to be standard in a few years time.
Now just waiting for adobe to update cs6 for retina, should be any day now according to the internets.
- tOki0
I have one and this my set-up, forked out a fair bit of dough about 2 months ago. Overally the build quality is amazing, as is expected. It is a far superior machine to my previous HP Envy 17, which was peice of shit in comparison. I was working pretty much in a windows android world for a few years but decided to try apple recently, and so far am pretty impressed particularly with the level of integration across the apple product family (if you embrace it) So Mountain Lion is good too, but they really need to cut the skeumorphism shit, and some retina machines have had issues with how the integrated graphics switch when the machine comes out of sleep mode (black screen, requires hard reboot). Mine was doing it at the start but seems to be fine now.
On a side note I'm probably going to install windows 8 onto it just to see what it's like and to play some games on my steam account.
Thunderbolt display:
Powers laptop, secondary workspace, previous laptop 512gb SSD is fixed with double sided tape and plugged into the back as secondary harddrive. iPhone dock also plugged in.Airport Extreme:
Speakers are plugged into this, audio goes via airplay (use headphones when doing audio work to avoid latency). 1.5tb notebook drive in enclosure also plugged in acts as time machine.Speakers:
(got them on sale like $100 off at a local retailer :D)Logitech wireless solar-powered keyboard:
Is awesome, I hope all manufacturers start making these to accomodate different keyboard design styles.Logitech Marathon wireless mouse:
Rated for like 3 years battery life on 2 AAs.Elevation iPhone dock:
Of kickstarter fame - a bit pricey but very solid and very practical.- epic setup. wish could convince myself to spend money on a thunderbolt display...inteliboy
- chrisRG0
installed this gFX on my MBPr and the battery time has increased by 60-80%. Would be great if Apple add this to OSX.