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I've bought a MBP every year for 6 years. I spend so much time on them that it's absolutely worth it to get increased performance and space. My current rMBP has

by chaz 14y ago

I've bought a MBP every year for 6 years. I spend so much time on them that it's absolutely worth it to get increased performance and space. My current rMBP has 16GB RAM and 512 GB SSD -- more than enough. But I'll get the next rMBP for one reason: improved graphics performance. At the 1920x1200 resolution, even things as mundane as scrolling webpages is pretty low-FPS. Also, Google Chrome's aggressive GPU use seemed to be locking the whole OS about once a day, forcing a hard reboot. Aside from the locking, which now seems to have been resolved with 10.8.2 12C60, I'd say it's been worth it to have phenomenal screen resolution over my previous MBP. Nearly two whole browser windows side-by-side is terrific. I've seen mild ghosting, but I wouldn't say it's affected my day to day operation.

untog 14y ago
This is what has put me off buying the 13" Retina- people were complaining about the 15, then they left the 13 with integrated graphics only. Can't bode well.
modarts 14y ago
The UI performance was so abysmal for me that it didn't make up for the higher resolution. Spending 4k on the maxed out spec system, and having to deal with sub 20 fps while scrolling a web page is just ridiculous (and one of the main reasons I returned it.) Even the notes app would slow to a crawl when scrolling through large amounts of text and nearly stop responding. I'm really surprised that there haven't been more people complaining about this issue. I'm all for high resolution screens, but please, for the love of all that is holy, put a graphics card in there that is capable of pushing out those pixels!
mehrzad 14y ago
>even things as mundane as scrolling webpages is pretty low-FPS I mean, if you bought a $1300+ computer THIS YEAR shouldn't you expect better performance? OS X is pretty good, but I personally am tired of not being able to run intensive things without shelling out thousands.

by chaz 14y ago

untog 14y ago

This is what has put me off buying the 13" Retina- people were complaining about the 15, then they left the 13 with integrated graphics only. Can't bode well.

modarts 14y ago

The UI performance was so abysmal for me that it didn't make up for the higher resolution. Spending 4k on the maxed out spec system, and having to deal with sub 20 fps while scrolling a web page is just ridiculous (and one of the main reasons I returned it.) Even the notes app would slow to a crawl when scrolling through large amounts of text and nearly stop responding. I'm really surprised that there haven't been more people complaining about this issue. I'm all for high resolution screens, but please, for the love of all that is holy, put a graphics card in there that is capable of pushing out those pixels!

mehrzad 14y ago

>even things as mundane as scrolling webpages is pretty low-FPS I mean, if you bought a $1300+ computer THIS YEAR shouldn't you expect better performance? OS X is pretty good, but I personally am tired of not being able to run intensive things without shelling out thousands.