Retina MacbookPro

First off the screen is amazing and overall with the computer there are almost no gripes about it. Honestly there  are only two incredibly minor things that I feel like are lacking. One is the missing battery status indicator that used to be on the left side of the unibody MacBookPro and on the battery itself on the pre-unibody MacBookPro and on the standard MacBook. Its just nice to be able to know if the charger should be grabbed when pulling the computer out of the bag  the other incredibly minor complaint is that it no longer says MacBook Pro under the screen on the bezel as it did previously, it just seems like something is missing.

Applications look stunning on the screen, those that have been optimized for the new resolution at least. Applications such as Microsoft word make me feel like I’m wearing someone’s prescription glasses that are just slightly too strong so there is a slight blur.

The glorious fans, which Apple advertises ever so much really are not that revolutionary. More what is revolutionary is the lack of need for the fans.  Previous computers would always have the fans startup very quickly if the computer was sitting on a bed or on the sofa. The fan only consistently comes on so far when playing Call of Duty on the highest resolution settings. (2880x1800) When the fans do come on it does sound much more white noise esq vs. the normal whirring fan sound. The sound it does make is slightly reminiscent of hearing the wind blowing during a storm from inside of a house.

Editing photos and videos are great, and yet at the same time bad. I have horrible  OCD, hence the always wanting to know the battery level. First thing I have to mention is that the computer is fast. In the time it takes the computer I used to edit with to get to the Opening Aperture Library” dialogue box aperture has fully loaded on the rMBP.  The second great thing is that it can run several apps all at once without added lag. Previously if Aperture and Final Cut were both open it was mind numbingly slow. On this computer I just plugged in the camera and opened aperture without closing any of the previously running apps and I didn’t notice any speed loss, I’m not saying it wasn’t slower than when only Aperture is running it just was not noticeable. For reference the apps that were also running were, Final Cut Pro, Safari, Sparrow, Reeder, and Call of Duty 4. Once uploaded the photos looked amazing. One photo in particular did not look as good as expected. When I had looked at the back of the camera of taken photos it looked great, in the preview window to select images to upload it looked great. When opened full size in the editor it was incredibly obvious it was out of focus. Normally this would not be so antagonizing as when uploaded onto flickr, Facebook the image looked perfectly fine. So only when I see the image I know in the back of my mind that it is in fact out of focus but to the outside world it is not.

The rMBP is an incredibly fast and amazing to use, opening apps within seconds and booting up sometime between 15-26 seconds. Its fast enough so there is not a waiting period to think about how long it’s taking. Running applications is blazing fast, although I am using the 16gb model so it may be able to handle more applications at once than the 8gb. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone I know or don’t know.