Re: MacBook Air/Mountain Lion
Re: MacBook Air/Mountain Lion
- Subject: Re: MacBook Air/Mountain Lion
- From: Karl <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:16:01 +0300
Its not pixel perfect. I notice a little haziness when I crank up the rez.
What appears to be happening is that the rMBP is rendering to a backing store at 2x the resolution. So 4x the total of number of pixels. Then it samples them down to the panels natural resolution. And none of this appears to be happening in hardware...all just software. That's about 15 million pixels being manipulated.
I think its a great dev and web dev machine but this type of manipulation needs to go on at the silicon level.
Karl
On 2012-08-07, at 6:40 PM, Jesse Tayler <email@hidden> wrote:
> had you noticed that with the macbook retina, you can crank the screen resolution up and down?
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> some 1920x1200 pixels if you like.
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> the quality is still very high, very readable and the steps to zoom the screen up and down are by pixel-perfect ratios, so things basically always look good.
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> I hear also, you can connect four external monitors at the same time, which would be a cool flight simulator if nothing else...
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> lastly, having used the new macbook for development of both WO and of iOS on the same machine - I can say -- it's an incredible developer box, er, portable.
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> if you don't require the super-light portability of the Air and you want screen real estate, something fast and to last
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> - the macbook retina would be it.
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> On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Pascal Robert <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Le 2012-08-07 à 10:00, Henrique Gomes a écrit :
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>>> Hey, I also have a 2008 MBP, but it does have a SSD drive….
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>>> Couldn't you also just bring an airport base station? One less cable to plug…
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>> It's an option. I was thinking of a MacBook Pro 13", but the screen resolution is not high enough for when I work at home without an external monitor.
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>>> HG
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>>> On 07/08/2012, at 14:49, Pascal Robert wrote:
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>>>> So I'm really tired of my poor Early 2008 MBP, so I'm thinking to moving to a MacBook Air with the i7/8 GB upgrade. I just did a GeekBench test on my MBP and it's almost half the speed of a MBA…
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>>>> My main concerns with the MBA is the lack of ports and Mountain Lion. So anyone have moved to Mountain Lion yet? I did move the family's Mac Mini to Mountain Lion and so far so good, but I don't do anything development on it.
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>>>> I also need to buy a Ethernet adaptor because the co-working space I rent only have Ethernet. That means I need to buy the USB Ethernet adaptor because I need the Thunderbolt port to connect my external display. Does anyone here using the USB Ethernet adaptor with the new MacBook Air and Mountain Lion?
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