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It's notable because creative professionals were once a very important market for Macs, and yet now Apple isn't even pretending to care about them. And creativ
by reitzensteinm 14y ago
It's notable because creative professionals were once a very important market for Macs, and yet now Apple isn't even pretending to care about them.
And creative professionals always could use more power. Even a current top of the line PC isn't enough.
Updating a Mac Pro from Westmere to Sandy Bridge E is absolutely trivial compared to creating the next MacBook Air. You can even do it at home with a Hackintosh - they are almost entirely commodity PCs in the same old boxes they've been in for years.
And yet it hasn't been done.
- dr_ 14y agoWouldn't creative professionals, at least those working in design and video, be pleased with the Retina display? Where else are they going to find a display of this caliber to work with?
- abruzzi 14y agoYes, but it's on a 15" screen. I haven't had a 15" screen on my desktop since 1994. Resolution is important, but for many tasks, so is size. The new MBP has a 2880x1800 screen, the old Apple 20" display had a 2560x1600 screen. So, while the MBP has a few more pixels, it's not that many more pixels. Having seen neither, I can's speak to quality issues on the two screens.