My Analysis of Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display

All of this morning I have to stay in San Francisco, but instead go for dinner, I decided to spend all my time with the new cheap MacBook Pro. As always, Apple has done an amazing job, catching people good reasons to go to the Apple Store and buy it. Then there are the display, perfect for those who have to look at it all day, and there are a significant reduction in the thickness and weight for those who want the compactness of the four nuclear "machine", hard to miss, and a significant increase in performance GPU / SSD - especially those who are hungry for performance. Despite the fact that the upcoming Haswell will be an excellent option for a truly next-generation MacBook Pro, all of whom have a lot of travel and work while traveling, choose to upgrade to a new laptop right now and tests for Pro SSD.

Let's talk about how Apple has solved the problem of scaling DPI under Lion. In short, users Retina Display MBP got a slider in the "Display Settings", which lets you set resolution higher than 1440 x 900. At 1440 x 900 you will not get any advantages compared to the conventional 15 'MacBook Pro, but it will become clear to the ridiculous. 

If you will do as I have permission to change the «high-res» 1680 x 1050, it will pass. Fortunately, Apple offers Modes 1680 x 1050 and 1920 x 1200, which at the expense of image quality and performance will add real value. You can see each of the five settings in the images Here. So, even for non-integer value scale 1680 x 1050 Retina looks much better than last year's panel of high resolution. It seems that Apple really render at twice the screen resolution before the "put" it in 2880 x 1800 screen (in other words, at 1920 x 1200 Apple renders all at 3840 x 2400 (!) Before to scale - looks like this, but I'm trying to verify this.) In simple terms - it looks much better. Just can not help but notice that the resolution can be changed very quickly. When I work with a lot of documents and tasks, I prefer the resolution 1920 x 1200, but when the turn to his treatment, switch to 1440 x 900 or 1680 x 1050.

Less glare, better contrast

In the default (Glossy) MacBook Pro, Apple uses a conventional LCD design of two sheets of glass, plus a third piece of exterior glass, which gives the effect of seamlessness of glass from edge to edge. In MacBook Air and high-res/matovom display is no protective glass and LCD is hidden in the frame. MacBook Pro with Retina uses construction like the MacBook Air and high-res. Instead, the Retina uses two layers of glass of different sizes, as you can see on this slide: Removing the protective glass, Apple reduces the number of glare and reflections, but it is important to remember that this is still a matte screen. Personally, I never bothered glossy screens, so I'm not the right person who should be asking about this.  

Comparing with my matte MacBook Pro, it is certainly more "glossy", but at the same time - not too far away. Most likely, I will be able to make its decision later. As always, Apple decided to fight the glare and reflections, combining high brightness panel with excellent black levels. Retina in MacBook Pro - the first screen, made ​​by IPS panel, which is used in the Apple MacBook. As you can see, the viewing angles are increased several times as well as a level of black brightness is likely an underestimate - compared to last year's model, but the improvement in the level of black make imperceptible loss. But the contrast has made ​​a huge step forward on the old MacBook Pro is still very good screens, but it's - really a new level. Increase the contrast for me is the second - of course, after the increase in resolution.

Retina display support in applications

The huge advantage that results from the fact that the supplier of hardware and software for the Mac platform itself is Apple, obviously, will get access to new opportunities and there, and there. Mail, Safari, iPhoto, iMovie, and of course, OS X - all have been updated to support the new MacBook Pro with a screen Retina. These applications all looks absolutely gorgeous on the new Pro. As almost all third-party applications, they have yet to update. 

Many tormenting question: what happens when you run an application that has no support for Retina? ..Let's look at a comparison of Google Chrome and Safari, the best example of the worst of circumstances: At Google, apparently written by its own mechanism for text output outside the work area - which bypasses the standard API for rendering and scaling from Apple. Render Chrome for areas outside of the screen does not know anything about the Retina, and therefore turns out just what was in the picture above. No crime, but I would prefer to use your position to Safari until Chrome will not correct this assumption. I am, if anything, he, too, like Chrome. As for the rest, most developers just need to double-check that they have put up @ 2x images are used in applications - a situation one to one repeats the same as it was with iOS when a Retina .

Play at 2880 x 1800

Most likely, you will have noticed that the default OS X does not stretch its interface for Retina native resolution (2880 x 1800). In fact, the 1920 x 1200 - the biggest "resolution" screen, you can set up - and it looks like an attempt to "calm down" users of 17-inch MacBook Pro. And what about 3D gaming? But in games Retina MBP and does not try to hide his true identity. Screenshot above is from Diablo III at resolution of 2880 x 1800.  

Settings page shows the full list of permissions: Diablo III is fully playable at 2880 x 1800. On average, I had 20 fps at a resolution of 2880 x 1800 on the most loaded of the scene to which I got (and I was once a little). Obviously, a lower resolution animation smoother.  

Diablo III throws some artifacts on 1920 x 1200, but it works fine on other 16:10 resolutions. However, not all games allow you to do so. Benchmark Unigine Heaven, for example, will not allow you to put the resolution higher than 1920 x 1200. But Portal 2 - easily.  
On the other hand, the text in the console, Portal 2 certainly points to the fact that many of the games will have to upgrade to the normal support Retina: It becomes clear why Apple did not open directly resolution of 2880 x 1800 under OS X. 

When ASUS introduced a 1080p IPS panel in the new Zenbook Prime, I really liked it. Retina but the new MacBook Pro I like even more. Of course, will take a lot of hours to review all the details, but my assessment is unlikely to be lower.I like it even more than the display on the new iPad, because I often have to use it (I have no desire to type articles on 15,000 words in the iPad).

Some interesting things about Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display

Despite the fact that I want something to reserve for the full review, here are a few comments that have appeared in the course of my tips and tricks of the next-generation MacBook Pro:  

- SD card reader is much better than its predecessor. In my early 2011 15 'MacBook Pro does not read some of the cards without having to insert them-pull again or how to click on them. The new MacBook this problem seems to be solved.  
- It seems that the key travel is at least the keys are not so "springy" as the Sandy Bridge MBP. It's not that bad, just strange. 
- New Pro definitely easier to carry around than the previous unibody-case, but would not say that it feels small. I have a lot to carry a 15 'Pro, so the difference is noticed immediately, but did not expect that it will show me a little more than a MacBook Air, on the other hand, the new Pro feels exactly as it should be felt. 
- Wish for $ 2,199 we get 512GB SSD, and do not get even the possibility to install it,  in either case, I would say close to ideal specifications. Without a standard 2.5'' SSD will not be easy to transfer data to a larger drive. That is all I wanted to say at the moment. You can read for more  news and detailed reviews for Apple Macbook Pro here. 

Buy a MacBook - become smarter than the surrounding

Hello! With the onset of the mid days of Autumn, we don't want to work and sunny weather is only the desire to take a walk, but every time overpower yourself, the more that is around a lot of events. To show the mood, let me give you a commercial, I think it perfectly conveys the entire range of emotions.

But on the other hand, against the background of traditional and different reports of the last week I was most concerned by the question of the cereal that is in the minds of some people. I'm always shocked how people can turn their heads in the collection of stereotypes and warehouse forgotten, and besides, erroneous ideas. I want to devote the bulk of production to this issue.

As things are transforming people - pure materialism

I grew up in the Soviet Union, where they all had about the same features. When there was a boom in the U.S. running shoe, the Soviet Union appeared little blue Adidas, which purchased because of the inability of light industry produce similar shoes. First blue sneakers with stripes appeared in 1979, just before the Olympics-80. It was said that the shoes were also planning to distribute to our troops in Afghanistan, but the officers to buy their own or choose other shoes. Already in the 90's on one of the closed Soviet enterprises I came across the shoes that look just like those Adidas, but made in the protective coloring - was not launched in a series of projects for the Army.

In the country of the winning gap sneakers were in favor, they are expensive cost, they can not be bought. My uncle brought me the first of my life running shoes in the second grade, it was the Danish Ecco from Copenhagen. For me it was not a fashionable thing, and sports shoes. What I could think at that age, just not about fashion or the availability of this type of footwear. At the first gym class one of my classmates dropped a phrase: "He put on shoes - do you think was the man?" The phrase to remember, though at the time I did not attach a value to it, ignored as something that has no relation to me. Curiously, the children saying my classmate accurately reflects the adult world in which we all live. Here, not only clothes, but also electronics begins to play the role of a certain social identity "friend or foe".

Which machines go people you? What time on their hands? Where they choose to spend your vacation? In what places go? Answers to these questions accurately describe what social group to which you belong. Electronics manufacturers tend to consider the difference between the income and the perception of the audience to offer different techniques. But, like in cars, variety - a relative thing, as such little choice, he described the brand, the price, a certain ideology that is behind each brand. For example, the phones have a choice between the Apple iPhone, as well as a variety of models on the Android, all other alternatives are playing the role of the residual, are offered to marginalized groups (in which there is nothing offensive, they just are not mass).

But this phenomenon is nothing new, as the stratification of society existed in all ages, as well as the difference between the products. The perception of a chosen one or another individual, based on the consumption of certain types of goods, also not new, it's kind of a pleasant delusion. 

 But with the development of electronics was other kind of self-deception that are happy to indulge buyers - it is believed that buying a powerful computer, you become smarter. Acquiring professional SLR camera, you suddenly gains the ability to create, and so on. We, unlike our ancestors walked on the path of self-deception or fool their loved ones, and then it does not matter who is the first to open a Pandora's box. Rather, it is important that it is now virtually every respect, and we live in stereotypes, which can escape from the unit.

Let us remember the already classic advertising campaign Apple - Think Different (think differently). It originated in 1997 as a response to the slogan IBM - Think, in the video shown geniuses and heroes from different times caused people to compare yourself to them.

What was the subtext in this ad? If the IBM PC promoted as a means for those who are willing and able to think, then Apple went further, they said - think differently, do it as the best representatives of humanity. And, of course, immediately showed their computers. Little difference in the context of our discussion between IBM and Apple not only the implementation differs. In both cases, the companies promoted their computers, touting them. If in possession of IBM computers are considered necessary for the modern man who thinks, then Apple also gave examples of heroes. Although the basic idea was exactly the same.

Of course, the idea that computers make us think there is something fair. To master the computer, you have to put some effort, which is capable of both the child and adult - only a matter of desire. But let's ask another question - does that make you smarter computer? Does the fact of having a computer you have more than a clever man, expands your PC power of your brain?

Do not respond quickly. Think about it. Does your mind on how you use your computer. For example, if the Nobel Prize for Literature gaining their texts on iMac, then you will do if the possession of such a computer a bit like him? The obvious answer - no.

I'll try to move away from the topic of computers and all devices to search the analogy in the history of mankind, which is well illustrate my next point. Turn to the book of Richard Feynman "Of course you're joking, Mr. Feynman", which tells the story of an American physicist, cargo cult. These cults have appeared in the Pacific Islands during the Second World War, the islanders almost faced with Western culture and civilization.  

The war, which came to the island and brought them to a huge number of changes, but the main thing was that there were airfields, which brought the aircraft cargo (cargo) - clothes, food, weapons. Imagine that it is not spoiled by creature comforts islanders have jumped immediately to the Western civilization, have tried their products, but did not change his mind. When the war ended, and airfields were deserted, the islanders created a cult-cargo. They began to build runways, radio towers, the planes of wood to simulate the actions of ground services. So the islanders beckon planes so they brought their goods. In the next fifty years, almost all cargo cults have disappeared, in the absence of cargo people lost faith in the fact that their actions bring tangible results.

In consumption of electronic devices we dealt with the formation of cargo-cult, which has spread across the planet. Most succeeded in it by Apple. If Melanesians beckon airplanes, building them up and runways, the modern consumer phones, computers and laptops makes the device on the basis of what kind of halo around it, which is created in the image of those who use such a device. The classical scheme - not to be, and to appear. In some countries, as in Russia, it is shown very strongly, some less, but the disease is subject to the whole world. And as part of the cult of the electronic cargo selection device often means choosing the head that his brains are expanding (in the case of the computer.)

Do not believe me? Read the comments on the article about Instagram, which I dared to express the banal, in my opinion, the idea - not the technique makes the artist, a man of taste uses the technique - masterpieces can be created without using the newest technology. They certainly expand opportunities for creativity, but not render a creator. Substitution of concepts going on here - many, buying a good camera, optics, suddenly begin to think that they can take pictures and see the beauty. Multiplying colorful pictures, they do not invest in them any ideas. As well as many contemporary artists, rejecting external beauty and promoting the idea of ​​confusing without bringing anything to the world. All need a balance.

In people's minds, to comment so that article, having a good camera automatically means that they are able to create. I'd venture that for them also no doubt about the "fact" that the presence of a certain brand of computer speaks well of their mental abilities.Another fact to the collection - the majority of sports cars owners believe that they are well-drive cars (an error of judgment, but it is very common). Few people buy a sports car for you to admit that leads to an average level. It's more evidence to the contrary and self, who gladly supported by manufacturers of such vehicles. Advertising shouts that sitting behind the wheel of such a car, you feel like a racer such and such. Comes to mind slogan "Feel Schumacher." Typing a phrase into a search engine, I see that not alone in stereotypical thinking. To good to drive, it is necessary to learn it. It is not only the number of hours spent behind the wheel, but the tracks on which coaches can show how different settings can operate the machine. With the purchase of even the best and the tech car you get skills for management-level professional rider. Do not believe advertising. As well as buying at the end of the 1990s, computer Apple, you do not become like those heroes of our time, that showed in advertising Think Different.

In general, advertisers have taken a great interest the creation of imaginary values, which have nothing to do with reality. It's a shame that people are happy to consume cranberries this and wonder if the promise is simply not true. It is also a psychological feature of human consciousness. An example from the recent past - is advertising sneakers Skechers Shape-Ups. The ad promised that without making any effort, everyone lose weight, strengthen your leg muscles. Simply go to these wonderful shoes.

In May 2012, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a penalty for deliberate deception of buyers, the total amount of the fine to the company - $ 40 million.

Can we call such wonder buyers sneaker stupid? I think not, as they are - a product of our time. We've learned that we promise the impossible, and often common sense fails. Therefore, there are creators with good cameras for which the picture clarity and the number of megapixels is directly proportional to creativity. It's the stereotypes that are implanted in one way or another in most of the advertising garbage from different companies. Buy such a computer - for the better and smarter.

Substitution of concepts. You can buy a computer for a couple of minutes. But take the time to their education, the study of science, and so on - is not a matter of hours or even days, months and years. The hard way. It is much easier to spend money on technology toy that turns you into a different person. In your clever copy. In any case, many hope that it shows your mind is in the eyes of others. But it is not. Meet on clothes, and escorted to the mind. This proverb perfectly describes what electronic device - a tool that would be good also to learn to use.

To choose the devices that fit you and your lifestyle, not expecting that they suddenly turn you into a singer or composer. Do you want to last another example exactly the same deception that is imposed in the culture and actively promoted? Program Songify, it read out the text you into a sort of "song." Do not know how to sing? It does not matter. Need not and should not learn. This program will be able to do everything for you. I am sure that there will be many more such programs to be implemented in more qualitative level. Popular culture today is spreading the ideals diametrically opposed to hard work and training, promotes the easy achievement of goals through various crutches. The only problem is that these crutches allow you to achieve a certain level of zero.But then - the ceiling, where it is impossible to jump, because it needs to learn. The only question is, what do you choose - crutches or a slow study of the question, which ultimately will be successful in a particular field.

Demand for MacBook Pro Retina continues to increase

The high-end laptop's company Apple say they receive thousands of orders from around the world every day. Indeed, the demand for MacBook Pro Retina continues to increase since its launch, the risk gradually settle. Despite its somewhat high price, the latest Apple MacBook Pro has a hit and even surprised Apple in its inventory management. With a delivery rather boring two weeks ago, the high-end notebook from Apple is now delivered in 5 days (7 days max) working . It's MacBook opportunities (new MacBook in Ivy Bridge), not worth the wait because they are all in stock and shipped immediately make Apple factories.Models and measures of three working days at most. Mac mini, iMac, Mac Pro are available immediately for the benefit of consumers.

Apple says that by September, the production of Retina MacBook Pro will be better managed and so it will be available for almost immediate delivery . In short, it's better knowing that the firm will surely one CHARGED BACK ...

How To Keep Your MacBook From Over Heating?

The closer to August, the less cool - it's a fact. In aluminum, with poor air, things have all chances to become a fire, and MacBook Pro can convert to a coffee machine. Especially if you like to put your beloved laptop on your knees, on the blanket, it gluttonous overload programs - absolutely no respect in general. Let us remember those who have long forgotten what a laptop to connect to your favorite mouse, keyboard, and left to gather dust on the table. How cool your MacBook, so how to keep it does not overheat in this 2012 summer hit?

If you collect all factors favoring overheating MacBook, in one place at one time, using a laptop can be defrosted chicken. For addressing the issue, we asked the experts, experts who have discussed the possibility of equipping MacBook Pro 16-gigabyte memory rulers and how to extract information from the dead drive . Deal with the problem helped Denis Shcheglov and Isac. Below you will find a list of how to cool your laptop and keep it from over heating.

Denis said that many of the issues that we are "scraped" bottom of the barrel on the Internet, "addressed to the user, but not a professional engineer. Each to himself decides how cool beech, no special recommendations. The main common sense and the "User's Guide".

So, what does "lzya" and that it is impossible?

You can not (very recommended):

1. Put the laptop on a soft surface : knees, a blanket, a chair. This prevents the outflow of heat and proper air circulation, promotes overheating.

2. Cluttered work space around the laptop, thus contributing to poor air circulation and accumulation of dust armies.

3. Keep a notebook near the air conditioner . Although this looks like a very reasonable way, there is a risk of condensation. This is comparable to what you fill it with tea, beer, mojito, or anything else that saves you from overheating.

4. Use cases such as saddlebags (spek-Case), because the heat will be given at the bottom of the housing.

5. Use ice, nitrogen and other frozen materials. Alexander Mereschenko explains, that building the motherboard Apple engineers use lead-free solder. He is fragile and can not tolerate high temperature differences. Disable the "mother" and cool the laptop is no longer necessary.

6. Use a vacuum cleaner to remove the dust directly, as you may damage the internal components. Baste brush the dust, and then collect a vacuum cleaner.

"Lzya" (the obvious things that can save your MacBook):

1. Use a metal table (stainless steel, aluminum).

2. Keep the MacBook closer to the fan (and help yourself).

3. Use a cooling pad with a gap of 1-2 cm for air circulation. This method is not particularly effective, because the bottom of the laptop and output for aluminum cooler there.

4. Avoid exposure to sunlight on the notebook.

5. Regularly wipe the dust.

6. If there is no special cooling pad can be put under the back of the MacBook pigbook, for example, to increase the flow of air.

7. Periodically disable MacBook, to lower the temperature. Diablo 3 will wait.

Remember laptop heat is evil. Hopefully, these tips will help you to save your MacBook overheating.