Windows 8 on the Retina Display MacBook Pro

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• JMS3072 - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link

  Articles like this are why I keep coming back to Anandtech. I appreciate that you take the time to make full-on, useful observations before doing a review- unlike some other sites that rush to get out their review first.

• ImSpartacus - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link

  It's funny, I was about to make a comment saying just about the same thing.
  
  We're such fanboys, lol.

• Zak - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link

  Yup. That is pretty cool indeed. I also enjoy bits like this.

• drvelocity - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link

  Agreed - Anand, you are truly the best technology writer in the world as far as I'm concerned, at least in any language I can read. Even Ars Technica writers reference your articles, that tells you something.
  
  On another note: This article/gallery should be taken in while listening to "Carnival of the Animals VII - Aquarium" by Camille Saint-Saens for full effect. This thing truly is magical. I love that I have to have mine shipped from Shanghai to Illinois only to have it shipped back to Taiwan. :(

• BPB - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link

  OK, I believe I've been coming to this site since '99, otherwise 2000 at the latest. It truly is one of my favorite tech sites. But I gotta say, stuff like this annoys me:
  
  "This is just an insane panel. I'm typing this on my 27-inch 2560 x 1440 display, and to think that the 15.4-inch panel next to it has 40% more pixels is mind blowing."
  
  If this is true then your mind is too easily blown. It's cool, it's nice, but mind blowing? You've already seen the newest iPad approach those numbers in a smaller, wimpier form factor, yet you find it in a larger and much more powerful form factor mind blowing? I think that would be ok from the teenage Anand back in the day, but this one has grown up. Hasn't he?

• klagermkii - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link

  It is mind blowing. We've spent somewhere near a decade with 2560x1600 being the highest "mainstream" resolution we can get, and finally we're breaking through that and on a laptop display no less.
  
  This kind of thing is exciting because once Apple pushes it, we'll probably see other manufacturers doing it as well (even if just in a me too way), and they'll start pushing ahead of 2880x1800 to at least beat them on specs.
  
  Should be a good few years for monitors coming up.

• BPB - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link

  "It is mind blowing. We've spent somewhere near a decade with 2560x1600 being the highest "mainstream" resolution we can get, and finally we're breaking through that and on a laptop display no less."
  
  Without intending to, you made my point. This would have been mind blowing several years ago, but not no. Yes, it's been 10 years or so of 2560x1600 max resolution, so why would anybody be surprised it's now been bested, even if it is by a notebook. Making a screen with this resolution has been possible for a while, but making is usable has not. We now have all the parts (hardware and software) necessary to make them usable, all Apple did was do it first. Good for them, but they haven't exactly re-invented anything here, just taken it to the next logical level. It is not mind blowing, it is completely expected, and if anything overdue. See my comments about superlatives below. They should be used very sparingly.

• robinthakur - Friday, August 10, 2012 - link

  You need to give credit where credit is due. Apple is a disruptive driver for change here. Anybody who has followed resolutions for a long time will tell you that the higher resolutions have been shunned since the advent of 1080P with the 1920x1200 res of the better screens actually being regressed to 1080P for most 24" screens, most manufacturers thinking that the higher res. would only be useful for professional graphics people. Likewise, the res on laptops stopped improving because manufacturers got lazy and figured that consumers didn't know or care about the difference. I'm very pleased that Apple is driving this forward since the days of the iPhone 4, iPad 3 and this new macbook Pro. Without them pushing the envelope here, other OEM's would be content with far lower resolutions to sustain their increasingly thin margins and the consumer would lose out. Retina displays make one huge difference to being able to read text and to images looking great. One good example is the Galaxy 3's screen. Bigger than the iPhone but all fuzzy for text, with wrong colours, and that was even released this year!As the owner of both that and the 4S, the latter won easily overall when the wow factor of the G3's screen subsided and you actually tried to use it for something.

• ukw - Saturday, August 11, 2012 - link

  I think the main problem of display nowadays is not necessarly the resolution, but the fact that they are SHINY. Why all the the displays are shiny nowadays? Who wants to see their face in the display? Seems like the hardware manufacturers see all people as narcisists. And here i point at the "beloved" apple at first. Its not like their gear is shiny enough they even put some glass over displays to make it like a mirror. So whats the point in havin a 2880+ resolution when u can't see anything in bright light. Pointless and stupid. Besides right now i have this laptop from Asus with full hd resolution on a 15 inch display. Its mate and i like it but i think windows its not meant for the extra pixels. The scaling its all wrong. The text is big but looks bad like u can see its not proportional with the elements (windows and such). Only a few programs support this scaling without lookin pixelish.

• Moizy - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link

  So you're calling Anand not grown up? Please have some respect. You have to love the bravery, audacity, and/or lack of respect that internet anonymity provides, right?
  
  In Anand's opinion, it's cool that a panel that takes up roughly 1/3 the space of another actually has 40% more pixels. He even, how dare he, used the words "mind blowing."
  
  In my opinion, I appreciate that Anand, after so many years of dealing with tech advancements, and, even more fatiguing, tech marketing, hasn't become jaded and disconnected. When new, cool, inspiring technology comes his way, he still appreciates it.
  
  I'm sure there's a hobby or interest you enjoy or appreciate that really gets you excited, but that same hobby or interest might not do the same for others. That's perfectly acceptable; your excitement wouldn't warrant me curbing your enthusiasm, or calling you immature.