This line particularly bugged me, which shows Anand's bias for Apple yet again. Brightness, contrast and color reproduction are all great.'

'You don't sacrifice display quality at all in the move to the smaller panel. And trying to multi-monitor is going to drive you nuts performance wise.Īnd now for a slight rant on the Review it's self: The thing can't even run a Safari window with Facebook on it without dropping below 30fps! Add the $1,700 price tag to all of this and you have to be out of your mind to buy it. Dual-core with no dedicated GPU, only 8GB of RAM, paltry amounts of storage, and a screen that's only good for resolution, not for quality, makes this a stupid choice for any art professional. This 13' rMBP has COMPLETELY lost it's 'Pro' name. Freakie - Tuesday, Novemlink I would encourage you to pass.Once again we see relatively similar performance between the 13 and 15-inch rMBP displays. With an additional calibration pass using our i1 Pro spectrophotometer the rMBP display is in a different league. Straight from the factory, the 13-inch rMBP display is a bit more accurate than what you get from the 3rd gen iPad and the iPhone 5. The results are very impressive (remember for the dE2000 values, lower numbers are better/more accurate colors): I also ran the 13-inch rMBP through our CalMAN smartphone/tablet workflow to compare it to Apple's iPad and iPhone 5. Brightness and contrast are both top notch as well:Ĭolor accuracy and gamut are both within the range of the 15-inch model, putting them among the best we've tested: Viewing angles are great thanks to the use of IPS technology. It's the problem of being compared to such an overachieving sibling: anything you do is just never good enough.ĭespite its inability to outshine the 15-inch rMBP panel, the display on the 13-inch model is gorgeous. Part of the problem is the 15-inch surface is just so much larger that it manages to deliver a pretty substantial impact. The slight increase in pixel density isn't really noticeable.Īt first sight, the 13-inch rMBP panel is somehow less impressive than the old 15. The 4MP panel has around 226 pixels per inch, compared to approximately 220 pixels per inch on the 15-inch rMBP's display. I'm not sure if you can read anything into this, other than Apple seems to be fine with choosing a different aspect ratio to fit the form factor of whatever device it's building. Apple maintains a total of four aspect ratios across all of its product lines:ġ1-inch MBA, iPhone 5, iPod Touch (5th gen)ġ3-inch MBA, MacBook Pro, Retina MacBook Pro The latest rMBP features a 13.3-inch, 2560 x 1600 LED backlit IPS LCD panel.

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