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Anyone have a Retina MBP?
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[Michael Hadley] “What do you guys think about the using the 15” MBPr as your “broadcast” monitor (in FCPX anyway) and then using a larger LCD/CD for your workspace?”
That’s what I’ve been doing with my 2011 Macbook Pro, but I don’t do color critical work.
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[David Cherniack] “uhh…note the image is the same on all 4 screens…ie cloned. I’d be impressed with its usefulness if it showed the desktop spanning all four. Of course if you have clients in 4 different rooms it makes sense.”
I don’t think it’s cloned, they just have the same BG, note the desktop icons on the retina.
The comments seem to lead to discrete displays, and there’s this: Moving images and media didn’t create any lag and we were able to play video on all four displays simultaneously.
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “The comments seem to lead to discrete displays, and there’s this: Moving images and media didn’t create any lag and we were able to play video on all four displays simultaneously.”
You can also read that as cloned. The 650M would have to support 4 spanned displays. I don’t think it does.
David
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Well, it’s the retina, the two thunderbolts, and an hdmi.
Perhaps the hdmi is running off of the integrated die.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “At least the performance reports are coming back good, even with CS6/openCL.”
Good news, that’s what I’m looking for!
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Jeremy:
“I have been a 17″ since they started making them, so the form factor/loss of res is going to be a bit of a change.”As you probably know you can use the retina display as a 1920×1200 virtual screen (‘more space’) and yet within that the viewer window in FCPX will display full 1920×1080 video pixel-for-pixel. Yes the physical dimensions are smaller than on the 17″ but it’s only an inconvenience as you travel and may not be as cramped as you fear. Try it out in the store if you can.
There’s going to be a big green screen project in there as well as some other straight forward editing/cc. I need as fast as I can get in a portable machine.”
If I remember the recent benchmarks show the fastest MacBook Pro Retina is overall faster than the fastest MacBook Pro 15″. I’ll check to verify that and get back if I’m wrong.
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Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jeremy:
“”[David Lawrence] “Jeremy, I presume you’re thinking retina for field work? Do you work in clamshell mode very often?”I do not.”
Sorry my eyes just skipped over this. So I see why the firm factor is a concern. I’d certainly recommend you just get yourself an early birthday present and consider a Thunderbolt display so you don’t have to worry about only having the two TB ports on the laptop. It’s so much more comfortable working on a big screen. It use that HDMI with a DVI adapter for your GUI as planned.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Some folks are enjoying it:
https://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?81179-New-15-quot-MacBook-Pro-Performance
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Perhaps the hdmi is running off of the integrated die.”
My guess: On the three external monitors it’s the 2nd spanned display (the Tb’s are its clones) because, as you say, thre’s no desktop icons.
David
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[Rick Lang] “As you probably know you can use the retina display as a 1920×1200 virtual screen (‘more space’) and yet within that the viewer window in FCPX will display full 1920×1080 video pixel-for-pixel. Yes the physical dimensions are smaller than on the 17” but it’s only an inconvenience as you travel and may not be as cramped as you fear. Try it out in the store if you can. “
Thanks, Rick.
I was actually referring to the non retina MBP when I said “losing res”.
The regular 15″ is 1440xWhatever.
The retina will be a smaller screen, but higher res which I think I’m ok with. Have to check it out, though.
Jeremy
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