Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display

By default, we were mirroring our own display (which subsequently letterboxed the laptop screen into a 16:9 aspect ratio), but it can also work as an independent second display with its own color profile.

The MacBook Pro with Retina display is already a decent value in its first generation — for an Apple computer, anyhow — and as with the MacBook Air, we expect later generations will become more compelling in price.

One day we’ll sit around campfires, drinking moonshine and telling our children nightmare tales of visible pixels and display resolutions under 200ppi.

I use to love my old mac's screen, but now I just find myself starring at the pixels that I have been made aware of.

The MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina is essentially a smaller version of the 15-inch Retina MacBook, and that’s no bad thing.

Retina display is great.

I assembled my computer from scratch with I7 2600K Sandy bridge, ASUS P8P67 deluxe board, 16 GB RAM running at 1866 Mhz, 256 GB of RAID 0 SSD (OWC pro 6G), AMD 6850 graphic card, 4TB worth of data hard drive RAID 0 on Marvell controller 6G.

This isn't just a function of data transfer rates but of the heads on a physical hard drive not being able to be in more than one place at a time: so with multiple concurrent data requests, performance of a single HD drops like a stone while that of an SSD doesn't.

Now, rMBP got a 7.2 score due to the graphic card, and I got 7.6 (CPU), 7.7 (RAM), 7.9 (hard drive), very similar to my desktop system (about $2500) and I am paying only $2145 by being a student for my rMBP, right?

But it was so slick working at that resolution...My 2011 15" MBP had SATA III and I had used both a Crucial SSD as well as a Sandisk Extreme SSD with it, both of them 6 Gb/s drives, and the new retina's soldered on SSD benchmarks faster than they did.

The computer is very fast - the SSD is quick in real world use, though I haven't run a benchmark on it.

First things, first - the cost of this machine, given it's SSD, pixel density, processor and build quality is about right.

Both USB 3 and Thunderbolt are faster.

You may need: minDisplayPort -VGA adaptor (for LCD projector), miniDisplayPort - DVI adaptor (for older Apple Cinema Display); MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adaptor (to use old power source); Thunderbolt Gigabit Ethernet adaptor (for Ethernet); Apple USB superdrive (for CD/DVD); AppleCare (You just bought a very expensive computer).

We’d happily watch a light movie on the 13-inch Retina, though anything more dramatic will still want some headphones.