MacBook Pro Retina Display

[dmdigital]

Got it this afternoon and ... WOW:D:D:D

The resolution is truly fantastic. Still to install Aperture, Nik and PS CS5 etc, etc so have to wait and see what images look like. I know PS has issues with the retina display but I also have the 27" Thunderbolt display as my desktop screen.

Tombie - you can start drooling again ;)

[B92 8NW]

Mines on the slow boat. Got the external optical drive today, separately for some reason. First foray into Macs, used to be a hater but this is a thing of beauty.

What are the must have accessories DM?

[dmdigital]

I have the Magic Trackpad from my old dead iMac. For me the two I needed to get were the Thunderbolt to Ethernet and to Firewire adaptors for when I am travelling. If it is any consolation mine took exactly two weeks to arrive and of that 4 days was shipping. So all up not a long delay. I bought through the Apple Store because of the high cost of shipping if I bought elsewhere,

[Fluids]

Hi Derek.

My daughter bought the little i5 13" w/retina display, and Michelle & I bought 2x iPad3 w/retina display (our first Mac products btw, apart from iPhones).

Very impressive ! Especially for videos.

I am impressed :)

[dmdigital]

I've been using a 13" MBP for the last few months since my iMac died, not ideal as a full photo editing tool but a good solid work horse. My wife loves her iPad too and the display on it is one of the reasons I went for the retina display MacBook.

I've just uploaded about 550 images or a little over 8GB from CF card via Firewire/Thunderbolt. This would have previously taken me about 10-15 minutes via Firewire. The new MacBook did it in about 1 minute :o

[Chucaro]

IMO laptops are not good for PP, it is better to use a second monitor to do a proper editing using the LT monitor for the tools in PS and the desk top monitor for the images.
With PSCS5 and 6 it is easy to do that and in the OS the calibration of the both displays can be done separated.
As soon as I have some PP to do I will set up my Vaio

[dmdigital]

Until I got the MPB with retina display I would have totally agreed with you. The line has now been redrawn and I have to say it is definitely an option with this laptop.

The exception is Photoshop ... it really, really needs to be fixed for the retina display :(