Thread: MacBook Pro Retina Display

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?

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,

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

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

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