all of them look like you're running it at the panel's native resolution
Graphics on webpages can be slightly blurry, but everything else is beautiful. I run mine at 1680 x 1050 and love it.
or else just stop using Macs.
The lady doth protest too much, methinksYes - I realise that whatever Fisher-Price sets as the best way works best if you have Apple on the brain. Not being so is my problem.
Let me ask this then, will Apple for the next gen max out the graphics memory for whatever chips they put in? I think having only 1 GB of the 650M last time was too little when it could have had 2 GB. A friend of mine says VRAM doesn't matter but I disagree.
Thoughts?
Only Apple can answer that. Perhaps it was something to do with the way they clocked it in the specific case of the 650M. My M4700's for example ships with the K2000 which is supposed to be the equivalent, but they have 2Gb of GDDR3, not GDDR5.
Since Apple no longer caters to pros with their 'pros' I would imagine they thought GDDR5 would be a better bet for the consumer benchmarking crowd, especially given any Apple feature gets sprinkled with fairy blogger dust regardless of how much (lack of) merit there actually is.
I'd imagine therefore that if there's no particular limitation like that from NVidia themselves, they'd max the memory on their flagships - there's no real reason not to do it otherwise.
Graphics I really don't have a problem with, as long as the Retina support is there it's not an issue - I'm talking about productivity use, and there the scaling is a real problem. You either have razer-sharp non-productive res (native retina) or blurry productivity res (1920 and even 1680 to an extent).
Again, for most so-called-enthusiast/expert Mac users with trophy-wife-grade computing needs at best, I expect the Retina mode to 'delight with magicality' but it doesn't work for me - which is why for me, the lesser evil is to run the panel at native res. It's hard going sometimes though, especially if the machine is more arms-length.
I guess also part of the problem is that I'm used to more practical panels on the equivalent-or-better Windows gear I operate.
Let me ask this then, will Apple for the next gen max out the graphics memory for whatever chips they put in? I think having only 1 GB of the 650M last time was too little when it could have had 2 GB. A friend of mine says VRAM doesn't matter but I disagree.
Thoughts?
650M is to weak to use that much of VRAM effectively. The performance bottleneck will almost never come from a lack of VRAM but will come from the GPU itself running out of power.
You seem to have a lot of complaints about the MacBook Pro line that you aren't able to fully articulate.
Maybe not enough to get through to a fanboi head.
I appreciate the (relative - again this Apple here, you'd have to go pretty consumer before you get similar performance in Windows-land) improvement in cooling over the previous unibodies which makes them more usable, but screenwise I'd have been comparatively happier if they'd shrunk the high-res 17" to the 15"- but obviously that wouldn't have been enough for the marketing dept.
650M is too weak to use that much of VRAM effectively. The performance bottleneck will almost never come from a lack of VRAM but will come from the GPU itself running out of power.
Newer games use more than 1GB easily. My guess is maybe they couldn't fit 2GB in the machine.
Ad hominem.
You still haven't really said what's wrong with the retina display, or scaling. I'm not sure which you're complaining about.
Newer games use more than 1GB easily. My guess is maybe they couldn't fit 2GB in the machine.
You missed the point. The 650m isn' FAST ENOUGH to utilize more than 1gb. Even if they could fit another 1gb, it wouldn't be used.
Also you only need more video memory for quality settings over resolution (although resolution adds to it).
Ad hominem.
You still haven't really said what's wrong with the retina display, or scaling. I'm not sure which you're complaining about.
He came in with a preconceived notion and isn't interested in explaining it properly or embracing the discussion of another point of view. If someone thinks the 1680 and 1920 scaled modes on the retina display looks blurry I'm left wondering if they have an astigmatism that only manifests itself when touching a Mac.
If you can't see the pixels...
You missed the point. The 650m isn' FAST ENOUGH to utilize more than 1gb. Even if they could fit another 1gb, it wouldn't be used.
Yea I think he doesn't understands how a 'Retina' display works or just likes to complain like cheez.
Maybe hes angry his 15" panel isnt actually 2880x1800? (obviously you wouldnt be able to read the screen without a magnifying glass, hence the 'scaling')..
My biggest frustration (and not really a problem besides the fact that a 'Retina' display is just a huge leap ahead in display technology) is that not everything looks great on such a high res display. bitmap graphics need to be updated from the long time standard of 72dpi to look good. Its only a matter of time, so patience is a virtue.
Apple always has issues with Rev. A products so even though the 650M wasn't the best card to launch with it right away but as time goes on they will hit perfection.
This year will be decent and next year with Maxwell (if they use it), things will be awesome.