MacBook Pro Retina vs. MacBook Pro non Retina

[Dave Jenkins]

I just did a side by side of your video as I received my Retina MPB today. The image is a little more crushed on the Retina but it look a lot better than my 2008 MBP which the image looked washed out like the blacks were raised. There was more detail in the shot of the bowls on the table.

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[Daniel Frome]

Yes, I’m curious about this as well. Regardless of people’s personal opinions regarding apples pixel doubling technology in the retina display, it has proven to have excellent black levels as well as whites [both ends of the spectrum are among the best of any laptop ever [. It will be interesting to measure this more in the future.

[Brooks Tomlinson]

Hey DaVe,
Sorry to bombard you with a question about your shinny new MacBook. But I have to know. Does the retina MacBook run the mercury engine in adobe premiere pro? (so when you start a new premiere project, does it give you the option to choose “mercury playback engine” in stead of a greed out “CPU playback” only)

If the answer is yes, did you intall the Cuda drivers?

Thanks,
Brooks

Brooks Tomlinson

[Jiggy Gaton]

I just don’t get it… batteries glued to the case and memory soldered to the board… what are they thinking? I guess they expect folks to just buy a new computer now every 2 years. But thanks for your review on the display… I have no problem with the current generation of displays… they look pretty darn good to me as is. especially when you connect a thunderbolt 27″er to it 🙂

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[Jiggy Gaton]

good questions Brooks. I am also wondering…also why all the Motion content was updated (As well as other apps) for the new display? What’s that all about… perhaps you have to use updated content to get the most outta the new display… huh?

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[Dave Jenkins]

I haven’t installed CS6 yet. I’ll report back when I do but I don’t have much experience with Premiere.

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[Brian Mulligan]

Did you run the video Native 720 or Full screen?

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[Don Scioli]

I ran the YouTube setting @ 720 and went full screen on the MacBooks through YouTube.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jiggy Gaton] “good questions Brooks. I am also wondering…also why all the Motion content was updated (As well as other apps) for the new display? What’s that all about… perhaps you have to use updated content to get the most outta the new display… huh?”

So it looks better on the retina.

Small little GUI elements will appear soft and pixelated on the much higher res retina (they will look
scaled when not viewing in their native res).

FCPX was updated as well.

All applications will need it eventually.

[Tapio Haaja]

BTW I guess you played Youtube through Flash player which isn’t yet updated to support retina so at least with scaling there were some sort of double scaling involved. First Flash scales to ‘old fullscreen’ and then OSX pixel doubles outcome to Retina. I think it’d be fair to play video Quicktime Player which supports retina and scales accordingly.

Best
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