Anyone try the new retina on the macbook pro?

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I 've just tried it in store. Stunning, can't wait for diplays to get there too. Although I am afraid we 'll have to to wait. My ideal would be a high res pva panel. :)
 
I put it all the way to native (no scaling) and the next person to look at it was like "WTF? I can't read that!"
 
The RT technology makes me sick. The PC market needs to get their act together, Apple can do it why can't PC's, so many more resources at their disposal than Apple yet Apple moves alot quicker. Sad.

Might have to buy an apple if this keeps up. Only reason to own a PC these days is for gaming...

EDIT: assumption on reasonable price points for personal computing. yes there are 4k monitors but noone is going out and buying a $36k monitor for personal use.
 
The RT technology makes me sick. The PC market needs to get their act together, Apple can do it why can't PC's, so many more resources at their disposal than Apple yet Apple moves alot quicker. Sad.

Might have to buy an apple if this keeps up. Only reason to own a PC these days is for gaming...

Apple controls much of their supply chain and R&D. The retina display is something that will most likely remain Apple proprietary for awhile. Not saying another manufacture won't develop something similiar but Apple has cut deals with companies in the past.

More power to them.
 
Apple controls much of their supply chain and R&D. The retina display is something that will most likely remain Apple proprietary for awhile. Not saying another manufacture won't develop something similiar but Apple has cut deals with companies in the past.

More power to them.

Well it's an LG panel, so I don't think it will be too long until we see LG or someone else selling them!
 
Compared to my Sony Vaio, and display is the biggest reason I buy Vaio's, the MB Pro was nothing stunning. Yay for more pixels though! Never a bad thing. Pricing it out against a Vaio this weekend while helping my attorney find a new machine, it was also about $800 more for the more pixels.
 
Its $800 bucks more but its totally reasonable price. Atleast one good thing out of all this is, everyone will follow suit trying to catch Apple. Although we still haven't hit those type of resolutions from other OEM's in the tablet arena, and the retina display has been out 2 years now? Android tablets nor win7/8 tablets are hitting those resolutions yet. Guess everyone else is 2-3 years behind in that sense.
 
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I was pretty set against it to be honest, thinking what's the big deal if I can make out the pixels on my existing screens - it doesn't bother me.

But looking at the retina display on the MBP did change my mind. The text is so crisp it's quite incredible and looks amazing. No idea what the colour accuracy is like (although that can be calibrated of course), and more importantly screen uniformity, black levels, clouding etc. Response time too, if that matters to you.
 
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