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Originally Posted by Titan
Could you expand on that? Does it make the "experience" better overall or is it just when working with pictures?
I assume you would vote for the Pro over the Air?
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It's shockingly better than a conventional panel, especially after you've used it for a while and go back to an older Macbook Pro (which, as standard panels went, had good to great ones).
Everything looks better, but the principal improvement for me is in fonts - to say I'm on the computer a lot would be an understatement, and even though I didn't previously perceive myself to suffer from eyestrain, the Retina display makes it much less tiring to use the machine for extended periods of time.
You pick up some other nice benefits - for casual and most business hours use I can run at 1440x900 and reap the full benefits of Retina, or if I'm working on technical diagrams or need a lot of terminal windows open or something, I can crank the resolution to 1920x1200. Now the key here is that when you bump the resolution, you end up with a 1920x1200 display that doesn't look retina-sharp, but every bit as sharp as a native 1920x1200 panel. (note this is on the 15" - you have been looking at 13" machines, which have a slightly lower top resolution, but the principle is the same)
It's a very different way of working with a machine - normally laptops look like crap at any scaled resolution, but this is different. It's actually a tool to leverage in your workflow rather than a kludge to make things look bigger or smaller.
My post-Retina Macbook Pro hierarchy of needs is now this:
- screen
- memory
- cpu
- disk capacity (SSD mandatory)
That's how much value I place on the retina display now that I've used it for a few months.