My four year old Macbook Pro is pretty much damaged because of the intense traveling and I am happy that Apple announced something “special” for us photographers. The new Macbook Pro with Retina display has the very likely best screen for photographers with a huge 2880 x 1880 Native Resolution. I am used to work on my over 100 Megapixel [shoplink 28309 ebay]Mamiya 7[/shoplink] files so this is still not enough for me 🙂 Anyway, I already preordered mine and you can preorder yours on apple stores or at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Bhphoto (Click here).
That said here is a list of updated Olympus/Panasonic deals. We are getting closer to the new cameras and lens release in late August and I expect moge and more deals coming soon. All that stuff has the lowest price ever (Click on it to see the product page on Amazon): Olympus E-PL1, Panasonic GH2, Panasonic 45-175mm, Panasonic 14-140mm, Panasonic 14-42mm, Panasonic X 14-42mm, Olympus 14-42mm, Olympus 40-150mm. Full lens rebate page at BHphoto. And Nokton 17.5mm in Stock at Amazon and Bhphoto.
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to avoid confusion: the picture you posted is of the non retina display macbook pros. you can only get the retina display in the new slimmer 15″ form factor (no optical drive, flash storage only)
Retina Display? Death of Pixel Peeping?? NOOO!!!
Oh wait, there is still ‘Zoom 800%’ 😉
I wonder how good color reproduction is and whether the display can be really calibrated. (Some people I know in print/etc still use CRTs.)
P.S. And they have dropped 17″. As an owner all I can say: good riddance.
It is an IPS screen, so it will necessarily be better than before.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5998/macbook-pro-retina-display-analysis
That first sentence describes mine as well.. LOL
Read John C Dvorak’s column in PC Magazine: “The Worst Thing Ever: Retina Display”.
Was it a year ago that Steve Jobs found it timely to ridicule Samsung for building smart phones with larger screens than the iPhone and with high resolution screen — totally idiotic, as far as I recall the citation. A year or so later, and now Apple has Retina display on both the iPad and the MacBook… — it’s even a Whole New Vision!
Rumors say that some car manufacturers have added support for SIRI. First time I tried SIRI on my iPhone 4s, I ordered something like “find a coffee shop”. Instead, the iPhone started to play “Crying in the Chapel”… 🙂
Jobs has been dead for more than a year…
That works if you live on Venus. 😉
Yes, some may agree that he died before he died 8 months ago.
John c Dvorak openly admitted he trolls Apple users to get hits. The screen sizes haven’t changed, the DPI has.
Dvorak?!? LOL!!! I’ll just leave this here: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug-on-the-iphone
LOL!! When he wrote that article, Dvorak was still using a RIO MP3 player 🙂 (he’s since moved on to a Zune)
Good quote from Dvorak’s article “And its survival in the computer business relies on good margins. Those margins cannot exist in the mobile handset business for more than 15 minutes.”
And another. Completely priceless!!! “What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a “reference design” and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget.It should do that immediately before it’s too late. Samsung Electronics Ltd. SSNGY 0.00% might be a candidate.”
Of course, turns out the iPhone WAS used as a reference design by Google, Samsung and others, though not voluntarily by Apple 🙂
He, he. I doubt Dvorak is using Microsoft products if he can avoid it — he has predicted doom and gloom for Microsoft 8 for some tine… 🙂
Don’t forget this one, too: Balmer on the iPhone http://www.43rumors.com/olympuspanasonic-us-deals-and-new-macbook-retina-for-photographers/comment-page-1/#comment-156337
Dvorak has been an idiot for as long as I can remember. He’s a hit-whore of the first order, writing whatever it takes to get people to read his articles.
Jobs was a master at playing the media for free advertising. And since Apple has been the defacto R&D division of much of the consumer tech industry for years, he would often make statements to throw the copycats off.
Jobs certainly supported high resolution screens, the iPhone has had Retina displays since the iPhone 4, well before his untimely death. He didn’t support small tablets, or companies that blatantly copied Apple products, like Samsung’s iPhone and iPad clones.
Yes, Dvorak seems to hit at most things. But at times, I actually thinks he has a point…
[grrr iPad keyboard: “I…think”]
“And since Apple has been the defacto R&D division of much of the consumer tech industry for years…”. De facto, Apple has been good at following computer science research for years, copying/stealing ideas wildly — just as the rest of the industry — and attempting to present it as their own ideas. Their strength has been to give it an attractive packaging and making good choices — probably through some sort of “dictatorship”. A simple exampke — the possibility to split the keyboard — Microsoft had shown that long before Apple, and came to marked with it a week before Apple.
Regarding the banning of Samsung’s tablet in Germany — the decision of the judge referred to the square form of the Samsung screen, an argument so stupid that any honest competitor would have been ashamed of taking advantage of the decision. But of course, these companies are not honest 🙂
Interestingly, Samsung had retina class screens before the iPhone 4. My son currently uses a Samsung Jet S8000 I originally used. The Jet was introduced in June 2009, a full year before the iP4. The screen on it has 301 pixels per inch. Not only that, but it was AMOLED as well. The camera in it is pretty good too. Apple didn’t put a camera in a phone that could match it until the 4S.
And? That is just some technology. When you copy the whole visual aspect of a product, it is a different story.
The scariest thought is that someone actually had “Crying in the Chapel” on their iPhone! EGAD! 😛
@Mr. Reeee:
The great 1953 version by the Doo Wop group The Orioles — from a 4CD Doo Wop box set; of course, today the Elvis version is perhaps better known — or some may prefer the Bob Marley or the Little Richard version.
You should give it a try 🙂 Ok, this is perhaps not my favourite Doo Wop song, and I would get really scared if I told the car/SIRI “take me home”, and the stereo started to play “Crying in the chapel” :-).
Well, these 4 CDs are just some of my 1300+ CDs …
The thought of that makes my teeth hurt. 😉
They could have paid a lot of dentist bills :-). Out of principle, I don’t download music from the internet… The music ranges from Medieval French troubadour music through classical, pop, and avant garde jazz. One weird example is group Tribu, drum based native American music from Mexico City — bought after one of their concerts. Not a thing to put on in a relaxed setting with friends… I also struggle with Mingus’ Black Saint and Sinner Lady — not exactly easy listening…
My Dell XPS 16 has a RGBLED 15.6″ 1920×1080, which I have calibrated. Its the best thing Dell have ever made, and the resolution on that is so fine that I cannot see how any more resolution would be visable. I can’t wait to try one out to see.
Shame its a Mac though !!! :-O
Too much resolution on too small screen. This would better suit 27″ or 30″.
I think you are missing the point.
Unfortunately they will ruin it by doubling pixels. It will be like a 1440×940 display, except with sharper text and photos. You will not gain any desktop space. This would actually be a productivity downgrade compared to a 1680×1050 screen as is common in other 15″ macbooks. I prefer my 1080p screen on my thinkpad. I’m sure lenovo will eventually put 2560px width screens on their business workstation thinkpads. I’m not sure which ratio they will choose (1440 or 1600 height), but I’d bet they will actually let you use that real estate, not waste it by giving you giant icons and window designs.
I believe you know nothing about the way OS X handles the Retina Display.
Optimized apps do not run pixel doubled but at native resolution (with UI elements retaining their size ofc).
You can however choose additional ‘Zoom’ settings to adjust the UI size to your liking. It is noteworthy here, that it is NOT comparable with standard resolution screens that scale lower resolutions.
Anyways… take a look at that link and it’ll become clearer:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5998/macbook-pro-retina-display-analysis
If you don’t want increased pixel density at the same 1440×900 workspace, you have the option to scale to 1680×1050 or 1920×1200 resolution workspace.
These higher-resolution scaling use non-integer scaling, but because of it’s dense PPI – it looks just as good as a native 1680×1050 or 1920×1200 screen.
Yes, but can you get native 2880×1800? If not, it’s scaling, and I don’t want scaling, I want native pixels.
Dpreview: Oly works on fixing banding problem with 20/1.7 at high iso number, http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/06/12/Olympus-acknowledges-OM-D-E-M5-banding-with-panasonic-20mm-f1-7-lens
Apple products are nice, but the prices are far away from reality… a pitty.
Prices are perfectly comparable to high-end PCs.
While not resolution wise, I consider Asus Zenbook UX32VD ultrabook to be a better laptop – sRGB near perfect match and better contrast and it has a more reasonable price ($800). Now, for the fact it reached 50ºC (122ºF) in the stress tests… I wonder how these macbooks will do…
Now… see the Asus N56VM (or the sibling N56VZ) in the AnandTech review charts? That’s a $700~800 laptop with a Full HD TN matte screen, they did run a Color Gamut analysis for it, I’m wondering why they didn’t do it for the macbook, it should be good (well, it better be!).
$2199 ? Nope… rich ppl might get it for the style and status quo, I would rather keep my old Penryn laptop with a G94 Nvidia GPU and handmade screen hinges, If I need a good screen I have a 1920×1200 old one that gets the job done.
Is this really how you make comparisons? For the 2200US you get a much faster quad processor vs a a slower dual core, four times more RAM, SSD, bigger screen with better resolution, better sound (I guess), etc. The Retina MBP is in a completely different league.
If you want to campare it, compare with the Macbook Air 13″.
So now I will need to press my face 15cm from the screen to pixelpeep instead of looking from a comfortable distance because human eye can discern only details of one minimum size…
…Great. Just great. Now we need that 2:1 single click zoom button to remain comfortable.
This resolution makes sense on a Pad computer that you freely move towards the face and away, Makes less sense on a notebook. But it is progress.
It’s being sold in Brasil for just $ 9990 = US$ 5000.
I don’t like that the two Retina models have the RAM and SSD soldered in, so it they are not upgradable. I am more attracted to the older 15″ Pro with the option of the 1680 x1050 high-resolution antiglare display (why not 1720 x 1080!). It only adds $100 to the cost.
I really wish they would offer a better quality screen in the 13″ model. I would have placed an order by now if they did.
If Samsung had the brains to offer a laptop with an OLED screen, built like a Macbook Pro, it would be Hackintosh, here I come.
RAM and SSD soldered in? Wow… that’s a problem wit Apple products. And also the cheaper one comes with only 4 GB…
Well, I find the Asus notes to be the best… I have one, but I don’t think any of these have a great screen, mine is “terribly” reflective. And also kinda low-res. The rest is great.
Lowest spec retina model is 8GB. That’s already more than most people will ever need.
Totally want one as I was waiting to upgrade this year (student discount yay!), but unfortunately this is a bit out of budget, so I’ll probably settle for a new 13 inch air unless my website brings in some big advertisers suddenly.
Gotta see how it calibrates. Apples have been notoriously “blue”.