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TBH I'm not sure if I want 2560x1600 yet if there is going to be a significant drop in battery life. I have an IPS 1366x768 on a 12.5" screen and it looks grea

TBH I'm not sure if I want 2560x1600 yet if there is going to be a significant drop in battery life. I have an IPS 1366x768 on a 12.5" screen and it looks great. Fonts already go smaller than I can reasonably see for programming - I can't imagine a higher resolution would materially improve my workflow. Personally I'd like to see a higher refresh rate. Even with triple buffering I don't think that horizontal scrolling is smooth enough. I'd love to have a 120hz laptop screen. The new Windows 8 start screen, and switching between workspaces in Linux would be so much nicer. Still it's not exactly necessary, just a nice to have.

berntb 14y ago
>>IPS 1366x768 on a 12.5" screen and it looks great Some money advice: Don't use a retina display. :-) I recently saw my old iPad 1 at my ex gf. It was the best screen I had ever used -- now after an iPad 3, it was just horrible.
- bornhuetter 14y ago
  Do you think that's just the resolution, or also the quality of the display? I think the iPad 3 is a better quality screen as well as higher resolution. I tried a lot of latpops when I was in the market, and I found the ones with a higher resolution TN panel were worse (to my eyes) than lower resolution on a high quality IPS.
  - berntb 14y ago
    Yeah, the colour range is much better on the iPad 3 than on the iPad 1. That is a bit irrelevant. I'd rather have 256 levels of grey on a retina than a good colour non-retina. I can't get good readability of text (both web and A4 documentation) together with quick page turns (no eInk) otherwise. I could use something else to watch movies, etc.
  - CrankyPants 14y ago
    Related aside: the consistency of lighting across the viewing angle on my iPad 2 was far better than on the 3. (It was scarily uniform on the 2.)
saturdaysaint 14y ago
Battery life seems to have held steady for the HiDPI/Retina Macbooks and for all the tablets we've seen. So the real sacrifice is in weight and thickness. Linus's rant is compelling, but as the owner of a 2011 MacBook Air, I'm not completely sure I want to add 1.5 pounds (the difference between the MBA and the 13" Retina MBP). Granted, complaining about 4 pounds sounds ridiculous, but having something you can effortlessly carry from room to room with one hand is pretty great.

berntb 14y ago

>>IPS 1366x768 on a 12.5" screen and it looks great Some money advice: Don't use a retina display. :-) I recently saw my old iPad 1 at my ex gf. It was the best screen I had ever used -- now after an iPad 3, it was just horrible.

bornhuetter 14y ago
Do you think that's just the resolution, or also the quality of the display? I think the iPad 3 is a better quality screen as well as higher resolution. I tried a lot of latpops when I was in the market, and I found the ones with a higher resolution TN panel were worse (to my eyes) than lower resolution on a high quality IPS.
- berntb 14y ago
  Yeah, the colour range is much better on the iPad 3 than on the iPad 1. That is a bit irrelevant. I'd rather have 256 levels of grey on a retina than a good colour non-retina. I can't get good readability of text (both web and A4 documentation) together with quick page turns (no eInk) otherwise. I could use something else to watch movies, etc.
- CrankyPants 14y ago
  Related aside: the consistency of lighting across the viewing angle on my iPad 2 was far better than on the 3. (It was scarily uniform on the 2.)

saturdaysaint 14y ago

Battery life seems to have held steady for the HiDPI/Retina Macbooks and for all the tablets we've seen. So the real sacrifice is in weight and thickness. Linus's rant is compelling, but as the owner of a 2011 MacBook Air, I'm not completely sure I want to add 1.5 pounds (the difference between the MBA and the 13" Retina MBP). Granted, complaining about 4 pounds sounds ridiculous, but having something you can effortlessly carry from room to room with one hand is pretty great.