Thankfully Apple offers 1680 x 10 x 1200 scaling options that trade a bit of image quality and performance for added real estate.
#Working at mac glassdoor upgrade
If you're like me however and opted for the 1680 x 1050 "high-res" upgrade last generation, this won't do. At 1440 x 900 you don't get any increase in usable desktop resolution compared to a standard 15-inch MacBook Pro, but everything is ridiculously crisp. To recap, Retina Display MBP owners now get a slider under OS X's Display Preferences that allow you to specify desktop resolutions other than 1440 x 900. I've touched on the SSD speed bump already, and I've talked about how Apple is handling DPI scaling in Lion. MacBook Pro with Retina Display Comparisonġ x Firewire 800, 1 x Audio Line in, 1 x Audio Line out, SDXC reader, Kensington Lock slotĪlthough Haswell will likely be a great fit for the next-gen MacBook Pro, anyone who travels a lot and does a good amount of work with their machine will be seriously tempted to upgrade now. There's the display for those who stare at their computers all day, there's the significant reduction in thickness and weight for those who want portability in a quad-core machine, and there's the significant GPU/SSD spec bump for those who crave performance. Apple, as always, has done an excellent job of giving users enough reasons to want this thing. I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow morning, but aside from dinner I've been spending as much time with the next-gen MacBook Pro as possible.