An awful product that should simply be avoided. You'll be sorry.
92
A poor product with more faults than redeeming qualities.
92
Below average. May be passable in a pinch, but you should probably stay away.
92
A bit below average, with some serious issues to watch out for.
92
An average product, with issues that keep it from being genuinely exciting.
92
Slightly better than most similar products, but you can likely still do better.
92
Better than average, but some issues still hold it back from being truly excellent.
92
Among the top products in its category, and a solid choice for most people.
92
A category-leading product and an overall pretty safe bet.
92
An industry-leading product, definitely worth owning. An instant classic.
92
Completely flawless. You'd be crazy not to have it.
100
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Hi every body I have decided buy MacBook Pro I will use MacBook for browse in Internet and sometime Photoshop Which MacBook is faster when open 10 tab with safari and play music and edit document by office at the same time ? MD102 or MD212 ? MacBook Pro : MD102LL 13-inch 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz 8GB 1600MHz memory 750GB 5400-rpm hard drive OR MacBook Pro : MD212LL 13-inch with Retina display 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz 8GB 1600MHz memory 128GB flash...
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I get that it is incredibly crisp in the Retina mode - and that is not in dispute. But in terms of 'real virtual screen estate' it's only the equivalent of 1440 x 900. But when you scale the display to "looks like 1920 x 1200" it appears actually blurrier than a 'native' 1920 x 1080 display as e.g. found on competing mobile workstations of similar price tags. And that's before we get to the overheads of driving the panel in that mode. And what it results in is, at least for me, notably more...
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Confession. Reading this engadget post/reveal made me downright giddy. http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/samsung-Series%209-WQHD-Ultrabook-matte-display/ With Samsung producing LCD panels for Apple, I have always wondered why they were not doing so for themselves. There have been many theories and answers as to why, but it still didn't sit right with me. I figured that if someone was to challenge Apple in the display department, it would most likely be them. Now I suppose I should say I have...
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Just got my new MBP Retina display in, and boy do I love it. However, when I looked in Disk Utility, the SSD is only being reported as 500GB. Anyone else seeing this? I know OS X Lion defines 1 GB = 1 billion bytes now (which I like), but I don't think there's anything wrong with that calculation.
http://i.imgur.com/Q2enx.png Ready to geek out on pixel densities? Great, me too. So when Apple announced its first computer with a Retina display, the revamped 15.4 MacBook Pro (http://gdgt.com/apple/macbook-pro/with-retina-dis... I think we all instinctively drew the conclusion that one day every Apple computer model -- like the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch before them -- would have a Retina display. Seems pretty obvious, right? Now, it's easy to assume that we'll just take the...
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I asked our design team to put together a little infographic visualizing MacBook Pro with Retina display. I absolutely love what we came up with. Be sure to click for the full version! And feel free to link away, URLs are below (just remove the spaces)! media. gdgt. com/etc/infographics/macbook-pro-retina-infographic.png [1.2MB] media. gdgt. com/etc/infographics/macbook-pro-retina-infographic.jpg [800KB] http://media.gdgt.com/etc/infographics/macbook-pro-retina-infographic.png My hat's off to Aaron...
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I recently read a post by Khoi Vinh titled "Built to Not Last" http://www.subtraction.com/2012/06/19/built-to-not... where he discussed the new Apple MacBook Pro and iFixit's complaint that the new MacBook was unfix-able in the broader context of the trend of companies such as Apple and now Microsoft building devices that are not user up-gradable or repairable, even down to battery replacement, much less memory or video upgrades. Is design trumping practicality? Andy Ihnatko may have said it...
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Any early adopters out there noticing any screen discoloration in their new shiny Retina Displays? I got mine late last week and noticed that the bottom half of my screen has a very slight discoloration, like a yellow tint that has plagued iPhones and iPads before it. It's hard to notice just staring at a blank white screen, but scrolling through webpages you can see certain things changing colors as they move up, for example the gray box I am posting this discussion in. I took the bad bear to...
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Does anyone have a recommendation on a portal external USB 3.0 drive to use to run my Aperture library from? I've just ordered the new retina display MBP with 256GB SSD & upgraded the RAM to 16GB. My Aperture library is currently over 500GB in size and need to relocate it to an external. Is anyone currently doing this? And if so, will I notice a big difference when working with 21.5+MB RAW files?
First off, no I have not seen this in person, but I've read 3-4 reviews now and it seems the overall opinion of the reviewer is "yes, it looks great for apps that were upgraded for Retina but other apps are worse than before". How can a product that makes any existing application look WORSE be a recommended product by gdgt? I get that EVENTUALLY things will likely look good, but that's EVENTUALLY. Right now they look like crap. I really don't see how this could be a recommended product.
I'm not sure if the price would go down. When the macbook air came out, it cost $1799. The 13 inch air has now dropped to $1199. Do u think the price of the mbp will drop significantly as early as the 2nd gen and maybe have a much better battery life, very importantly, bigger ssd for the base version and also would intel haswell be worth the wait ?
The reviewer is playing on the way the old and new Apps look together on the display. This is no different to when the new iPhone 4 came out. It made the old iPhone 3GS look bad, but nothing had changed the older phone was still the same as it was. It was just that the Retina display of the new iPhone 4 had a much better screen and Apps that made use of it looked much better as well. Put it another way. Imagine that we never went to colour TV because it would made the old black and white shows...
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Do you think this RAM upgrade is priced reasonably? I've just read about this on Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5918161/this-is-the-macbook-pro... and I just need confirmation on this. Thanks!
ADD: Also, is it true that spinning drives (HDD's) are better for mass media storage than SDD's?
While the display is beautiful, it is going to take some time for both apps and the web as a whole to transition to Retina quality images and graphics.
The fact both the RAM and the SSD are soldered to the Motherboard. A Macbook Pro needs to allow an owner to at least replace the RAM. I hope that in future products they open it back up.
I realize that this is not necessarily a gaming laptop, but I know a few gamers that are Apple-only when it comes to computers and run dual-boot to keep their addictions fed. I am just thinking that this graphics chip will not be enough horsepower in the long run for such a high resolution panel. Briefly looking at early gaming tests, it can run Diablo III at about 30 fps at the native resolution. This game only looks okay compared to modern titles, but I'm not going down that road for this...
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The peeps over at iFixit have posted up their incredible teardowns of the new MacBook Pro and they've come to a conclusion that it's the least repairable laptop to date, giving it a repair score of 1/10. You can read their post and see their detailed teardown here: http://ifixit.org/2753/macbook-pro-with-retina-display-teardown/ In the post, they list a few things that Apple has done differently with the new MacBook Pro that makes it near impossible for people to do their own upgrades or repairs,...
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this mac book pro is a like a Porsche car you can get a base model one that has a navigation system plush carpeting leather seats, air conditioning and speed and give you the full Porsche ownership experience. OR you could spend more for a faster Porsche with a tuned engine but forgo the navigation system and in some cases a radio, no air conditioning, racing bucket seats with a harness instead of leather and a full roll cage instead of a passenger or back seat. That is what the new Macbook pro...
A lot of Pro Mac users have external hard drives connected with e-Sata port. When Apple introduced the SD card slot a lot of pros were sad because the ExpressCard/34 was better, in fact in the late MacBook Pro of 2008 you can use the new e-Sata or USB 3.0 Cards to expand connections and this is not possible for the younger versions of MacBook Pros. I would like an e-Sata adapter because is quite faster than Firewire 800. I know, Firewire is proprietary of Apple but an adapter may be done. What...
