Apple Updates MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Insane New 2880x1800 Notebook Display Discussion

[virtualjock]

powered by a single Nvidia 650M, good luck with that.

Not everyone does gaming. I've powered two 30" monitors with an old 15" Macbook Pro in a 3 screen setup. Heck, I've even powered a 30 & 24" cinema display with a core 2 duo mac mini.

The HD4000 onboard is a capable of pumping out two 2560 streams. Then you have the other nvidia graphics card.

You won't be able to play games or do full 1080p streams across multiple monitors but you can sure use them to open big spreadsheets /database queries. I'm rocking a 1600x900 and a 2560x1600 off a lowly Thinkpad w/ HD3000 right now. But does the job.

Like I said, not everyone plays games or do anything GPU intensive. They need the ability to power the resolution.

[NBReview1]

I really don't see anything special in this Macbook Pro. You are really paying for the screen resolution and the simple laptop design.

Still remember the Sony Vaio P with its 1600x768 8" inch screen at its insane price 3 years ago.

[yourtoys7]

I'm really considering getting new air 13"/128GB/8GB for 1240. Student discount and apple 100. card, so 1140.
There is nothing that any win machine make available that can be matche or is there?

[sgogeta4]

In what way do you want the MBA matched? There are many solutions depending on what you mean...

[knight427]

AnandTech provided a nice demonstration of Apple's scaling on the MBP-R.

[virtualjock]

I really don't see anything special in this Macbook Pro. You are really paying for the screen resolution and the simple laptop design.

Still remember the Sony Vaio P with its 1600x768 8" inch screen at its insane price 3 years ago.

Simple design? Are you serious. Take a look at the inside.
You are paying for the technical marvel and impressive feat of engineering.

The other Ultrabooks are running ULV processors, integrated HD4000 with max 8GB ram

This is running a regular quad core i7 laptop CPU with a 1GB discreet GPU in a .71" form-factor.
That is stuffing a Lambo V10 engine in an AUDI RS6. versus a 6 cyl in the regular Audi A6


That is very impressive in terms of engineering and manufacturing. Compare this to a fully loaded quad i7 Lenovo T530. Oops,lenovo doesn't have anything comparable unless you go to the W520/W530.
And the W5XX are big bricks.

The interior is very bespoke in terms of moterhboard design. No wasted space.

Example of Apple engineering. Inside of an 13" ASUS Prime Zenbook (with 1080p screen, vanilla ULV Ivy Bridge and integratedGFX card).


Now compare that to a 13" AIR.



The 15 retina interior is even more beautiful on the inside.



Other companies are going to have to step up their industrial designs.

[cy007]

AnandTech provided a nice demonstration of Apple's scaling on the MBP-R.

Graphics performance would be no different regardless of scaling right?

[MSGaldenzi]

This is not a gaming laptop... the 1gb 650 should be more than enough to power this display and run photo/video applications. If this was a gaming laptop, sure, I'd expect more...

[REMF]

love the 15" retina design:
1. decent quality screen
2. ditched the optical drive
3. slimmer chassis
4. perfect scaling to 1440x900 for gaming
only problem is that 15" is too big for me.

if they create a 13" retina with the same chassis style, a 1920x1200 screen, and a GT640M GPU then i will be sold.

[cy007]

love the 15" retina design:
4. perfect scaling to 1440x900 for gaming

But the engine still renders the same amount of pixels (2880x1800) per frame. What exactly is the native gaming resolution for the Retina MBP?