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Anyone have a Retina MBP?
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[David Cherniack] “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.”
You can already run two through TBolt before the retina, what’s one more?
Here’s some humor: https://www.onefoottsunami.com/2012/06/20/the-magsafe-to-magsafe-2-adapter/
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My silly test. I went to the mac store and opened up X on the Retina. Then I range selected some canned footage and I made it 50% slower, and used optical flow. See how long it felt. Not too bad. It seemed fast.
The Mac Pro across the room didn’t have the footage.
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Hey Jeremy, I just heard the 600 series does support up to 4 displays. I assume that’s also true of the 650M.
David
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[David Cherniack] “Hey Jeremy, I just heard the 600 series does support up to 4 displays. I assume that’s also true of the 650M.”
Well, color me polka dot. I figured OWC wasn’t trying to hoodwink anyone. They have been a reputable bunch with no reason to change now.
That setup will make a hell of a flight simulator and angry birds display, provided nothing melts in that little chassis.
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Personally I’d prefer a 690 which will blow the socks of of any M series chip and render with both GPUs in AE and soon, I expect, Premiere. ‘Course the MP doesn’t have any slots and TB at 4X PCIe is not nearly fast enough for my needs.
David
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Yep. In a bout of self cynicism, I think:
Macs are terrible, Apple sucks, and life as we know it will belong to Microsoft.
Me being a silly Mac shlub will be left in a trail of multiple CUDA card dust while being dragged by my underperforming and paltry Thunderbolt connectors in ultra high resolution to NLE purgatory because life at 500MB/sec has no meaning.
A 4.5 pound laptop will never compete with the likes of an 80 pound ProMax One (how could it?), and for that it will make me a worse editor, green screen compositor, and story teller with no doors on anything because they have all been blown off.
At least I’ll have 15 megapixels of screen real estate to watch this all go down in a furious seven hour battery session.
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Yup, bad karma sucks. On the bright side there’s always your next life. And just think, this time around you coulda been born in a small village in Lower Silesia and never known another kind of windows than your neighbours new outhouse door, let alone that an apple wasn’t only that red fruit you help yourself to from his tree when he’s asleep.
Count your blessings, Jeremy. The world is wide. Window only pains in the mind.
David
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[David Cherniack] “Window only pains in the mind.”
Truer words have never been spoken. I guess I’ll suffer with a small cuda in osx.
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[David Lawrence] “I wish it were that simple. I have the 24′ LED display so twin thunderbolt would give me the option of keeping it.
Of course to really do this right I should probably sell that with the unibody and upgrade to the new 27″ thunderbolt with all the ports. Ugh, this is getting expensive!”
OK. I finally went to go see one.
I have to say, it’s very nice.
I am not used to the 15″ form factor and it will take some getting used to, but I’m sure it will be fine.
I put the resolution on 1920×1200 and while it’s “smaller” due to the smaller screen size, it is razor sharp and very nice looking. I could dig it, no problem.
The glossiness of the screen is still kind of glossy, but when comparing to the regular MBP that was sitting next to it, there is a huge difference. You can still see some reflection, but the highlights are dramatically reduced and seem to not reflect back as much light, rather they are not quite diffused but rather look clipped. It is nowhere near as distracting as the regular glossy monitors, but it’s also not a matte. I agree with the reports that say it looks more matte than glossy, it’s a decent way to describe it. It would take some getting used to for me, as I really don’t like glossy monitors as I sometimes feel like I’m looking in the mirror. The Retina isn’t that bad, but I hope the performance will trump any distractions.
This one didn’t have FCPX or CS installed on it, so I couldn’t look at performance, unfortunately.
It was connected to a 27″ Thunderbolt monitor. That one was super glossy, but holy moly is it sexy. Damn it, Apple. You’ll probably get me on the Retina, and you almost had me at Thunderbolt display.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I really don’t like glossy monitors as I sometimes feel like I’m looking in the mirror.”
I had never articulated it before but the light has dawned: I prefer glossy laptop monitors because I’d really rather be looking at the mirror than working anyway. Glossy monitors allow me to do a LITTLE more work before I stop to ONLY look in the mirror.
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou
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