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. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/New-Macbook-2012-range-and-development-tp4655329p4655473.html > Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch
