

RyanSmithAT: HDD read error stats are a bit like Whose Line Is It Anyway: they're (somewhat) made up.The gallery below shows the impact of these scaling options on desktop area as well as how much of the AnandTech front page you can see at each setting.
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I suspect it won't be long before users figure out how to manually add a zero-scale, 2880 x 1800 option. It's also worth noting there's no default option for 2880 x 1800, which is understandable given just how tiny text would be at that resolution. As a result of the upscaled rendering, there can be a performance and quality impact. Selecting any of these options gives you the effective desktop resolution of the setting, but Apple actually renders the screen at a higher resolution and scales it to fit the 2880 x 1800 panel. Thankfully Apple exposes a handful of predefined scaling options if you do want additional desktop space:Īpple offers five scaled settings including the default pixel doubled option: 1024 x 640, 1280 x 800, 1440 x 900, 1680 x 10 x 1200. This configuration is the best looking, but you don't actually get any more desktop space.

You get the effective desktop resolution of the standard 15-inch MacBook Pro's 1440 x 900 panel, but with four physical pixels driving every single pixel represented on the screen. The Retina MBP ships with a version of OS X Lion however that supports a number of scaling modes to take advantage of the ultra high res display.īy default, the Retina MBP ships in a pixel doubled configuration. As we've seen in the past however, an ultra high resolution screen in a small form factor can make for some very difficult to read text. The 15.4-inch panel features a native resolution of 2880 x 1800, or exactly four times the standard 1440 x 900 resolution of a regular 15-inch MacBook Pro. Earlier this morning Apple introduced its next-generation MacBook Pro equipped with a Retina Display.
