Retina

This Is HP’s Take on the Retina MacBook Pro

HP has just announced a big overhaul of its Envy and Pavilion ranges, and most of the updates are fairly uninspiring—apart from the company’s take on Apple’s Retina MacBook Pro. The Verge has taken a peek at the new laptops, and the Envy 14 TouchSmart Ultrabook sure looks like it could be a winner. The…

The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Just Got $200 Cheaper

Apple just cut the price of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. You can now pick one up for $1,500—$200 less than the original starting price of $1,700. That means that the basic 13-inch Retina Pro—with 128GB of storage—is now slightly more wallet friendly. For $1,700, the same price as the old entry-level model,…

iPhone Math: What Would an Even Bigger iPhone Be Like?

So there have been these rumors of a larger iPhone. An ‘iPhone Math‘ is what some are calling it. Worthless, right? I rather hope not. As Marco has suggested, maybe this iPhone Plus is real, and the die-shrunk A5X is heading for this device. I’m going to assume that his wild stab in the dark…

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Now Available With Retina Display Support

The only complaint I had about my new MacBook Pro 15 is now gone. Well, not all of them, but only the one about its gorgeous Retina display: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are now both available with Retina display support. What a change! https://gizmodo.com/mountain-lion-review-os-x-needs-a-new-vision-5928783 I’ve been using the Retina-enabled betas for quite a while…

Apple has scored trademarks for “retina” and “game center,” which means cruise ships and your eyeballs ARE IN VIOLATION.

13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Review: So Good, But So Not Worth It

As soon as Apple announced the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, the countdown started for the 13-inch version. Well, here it is. A slim, trim, portable little MacBook with a gorgeous retina screen and a gut-punch cost. And another reminder that sometimes wonderful things don’t live up to their price tag. Why It Matters The 13-inch…

13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Teardown: At Least the Battery Comes Out!

iFixit just finished a teardown of Apple’s new 13-inch retina MacBook Pro, and the findings are a mixed bag of good and bad news for folks who like to fix their own gear. Compared to the 15-inch retina MBP, the smaller model should be marginally easier to tinker with. But it’s still pretty much impossible…

This Is the 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro You Should Get

From the first time we saw the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, we’ve been thinking: “Well, that’s great, but can it be a little smaller?” Done. You can now buy a beautiful, bright, pixel-perfect display attached to a souped-up ultrabook. But the new models might not be everything you dreamed of. Here’s a guide to figuring…

Apple Planning to Launch 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro This Month?

9to5mac is reporting that Apple is going to announce a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro alongside the iPad Mini at a forthcoming product announcement event. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-mini-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-u-5948203 The website cites a “consistently reliable source at a high-profile U.S. retailer”, who has learned of a new, smaller version of the current 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro. According to the…

Photographer Sues Apple For Stealing Her Eye

When you’re advertising something called a “retina display,” what better to use than a picture of an eye? You better make sure you’re using the right picture though; a photographer is suing Apple for stealing her’s. The eye in question, featured above, was captured by Swiss photographer Sabine Liewald, and while she gave Apple permission…

Sharp’s New 5-Inch HD Display Is Crystal Clear

Sharp’s launching a new 5-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel display this week in Japan—and it’s one of the most pixel-dense screens to date. According to the Verge, the new display uses TFTs produced with continuous grain (CG) silicon rather than the recently lauded IGZO transistor technology. Despite the fact it’s an older technology, it still…

And now Office for Mac 2011 has gotten a much needed retina update. Enjoy your VERY SHARP FONTS. [9to5Mac]

Adobe will release Photoshop with HiDPI and Retina display support in the coming months. Still not soon enough!

Why You Really, Really, Really Need AppleCare on That Retina MacBook Pro

Apple’s retina MacBook Pro may well be the platonic ideal of a portable computer. It’s fast, it’s thin, it’s brilliantly realized. Oh, and as iFixit has discovered, it’s a gigantic—and expensive—pain in the ass to fix yourself. That Apple made the retina MacBook Pro a difficult nut to crack isn’t a new revelation; iFixit already…

Apple’s Patent Sketch for Its Own Retina-ized Version of Google Glasses is Awwwwwkward

Apple has long been working on a Google Glasses-like heads up display, and have been granted a couple of patents already. But Patently Apple has drudged up their latest one, which promises to bring Retina-quality visuals to the little screen. And intriguing as that may be, the more entertaining thing here is the sketch itself.…

Do You Have a New MacBook Pro Retina? Do You Use Twitter? Then Get This

If you use Twitter’s official Mac app on a MacBook Pro Retina you know that it sucks. It’s a piece of unreadable blurry crap that makes me want to punch my computer. Thankfully, Tapbots came to the rescue with a gorgeous, Retina-optimized Twitter client: Tweetbot. Seriously, Mac developers, you need to get up to speed…

The Case for a 7.8-Inch iPad

I’ve been talking to some people on Twitter about the technical feasibility of Apple one day introducing a smaller and lighter iPad. The general opinion I’m seeing is that it would require a change to the dimension of the screen in points, or the touch targets would be so small that it’d be impossible to…

Is the Retina Display on Your New MacBook Pro Suffering from Ghosting?

Owners of Apple’s latest and greatest laptop, the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, say that they’re having issues with image persistence, where screen ghosts are popping up on white backgrounds for as long as five minutes after the image initially appeared. Cnet says that Apple has exchanged a few laptops already, but is this a…

Watch the MacBook Pro Retina Go Hot Red At Maximum Power

I love thermal imaging more than a Predator and almost as much as I love the new MacBook Pro Retina. So I made this little GIF animation with thermal images from Japanese blog IT Media, showing how hot Apple’s coolest computer gets under maximum stress. The verdict: it doesn’t get too hot at all. The…

What Resolution to Expect From Apple’s Future Retina Devices

Now that the high-resolution retina display has hit the MacBook Pro, it’s almost certain we’ll see a retina display on a MacBook Air sometime in the future. But what will these displays look like? GDGT thinks it knows. https://gizmodo.com/macbook-pro-with-retina-display-meta-review-gorgeously-5918439 It would be simple enough to assume that like the MacBook Pro, the retina displays on…