I need to stay away from the Apple store because I'll probably
instantly drop the $3750 on a fully spec'd MBP-R ... *sigh*

Who knows, a fully spec'd last gen MBP (mine) may become available for
after market purchase in a few weeks.  Anyone out there interested?

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM, bustergonad <[email protected]> wrote:
> I played with the Retina MBP (it's getting boring typing that, what's the
> short name for this thing? R-MBP, RMBP, MBP-R...?!) for the first time at
> lunch today - I have to say the screen sells itself.  I played with the
> scaling options and viewed MS Word, Excel and thought they looked ok - the
> icons within these apps look blocky, but text was fine (to me).  PDFs and
> web page text in Safari was amazingly sharp though.  Still unknown what
> it'll be like to RDP onto a Windows machine though, or whether you'll
> constantly keep having to switch scaling options.
>
> But, now looking at the poor icons along my Windows 7 task bar, makes me
> realize how fuzzy they are.
>
> Not sure if anyone is running Xcode or Monodevelop on one yet, as I'm
> assuming the text within the IDEs should look good anyway (but icons will
> look bad until they update them).
>
> I was more impressed by the slimness and weight of it though - it's felt
> surprisingly light, probably because the weight is spread over a bigger
> footprint compared to the Air.
>
>
>
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