MacBook Pro Retina: over the edge of your video card

"All is not gold that glitters" . The resolution of a display is not a parameter as aseptic , an end in itself, an absolute value that depends only on the display as many of us might think, is not so! It all depends on the underlying hardware, we must always reckon with it, and also the resolution of the display depends primarily on one component , as well as the display technology itself, of course: the graphics card , a component pushed almost beyond the limit of its potential in these new MacBook Pro Retina .

 

These new laptops fitted with an internal onboard video Intel HD 4000 NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M flanked by the unit to which is delegated the task of managing the now  famous resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixels . AnandTech  review has developed a technique that shows how much these two pieces of hardware in the new MacBook Pro are pushed beyond the limit , in fact, just think that already handle a resolution of 1920 × 1200 would be a daunting task even for desktop GPUs.

Using suitable software tools AnandTech has decided to "see deeper" and found that with a resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixels on the new MacBook Pro Retina, most interactions are fluid, but things change when you try to do a zoom rather than scrolling a web page, in these case frames per second drop dramatically below 30 . Just for comparison, in the 2011 MacBook Pro to do the same operations will be safely above 50 frames per second .

The second thing the guys at AnandTech should improve slightly in Mountain Lion with the new Core Animation , though, as we have stressed several times, we are already beyond the limits of the underlying hardware. They have played around with the Developer Preview is currently available and the results are not quite satisfactory, in fact - see image in the opening article - the above operations are performed at about 20 frames per second.  by

Still the MacBook Pro with Retinal Display has been exposed from iFixit

The same fate of the MacBook Air 2012 , involved the unreleased MacBook Pro Retina Display that you are "undressed" before the tools iFixit shows us, again, their internal structure, piece by piece. Screw after screw, component after component, the case of the new ultra portable Apple ultra resolution emptied completely and showed all the engineering behind such a product.

 

A structure that suggests the difficulty and quality design that will certainly affect the price of this notebook and it opens the eyes of those who think only a straightforward assessment of the hardware components without calculating the studio that is behind it.

 

Reminding you that you can find all the images on the official site iFixit , we analyze what are the most important components of this product. The main plate, with a very particular form, shows in red the CPU, the Nvidia video card in orange and green in the Rams ( of course the colors were added using photo editing software ).

At a glance you can see that, as happens in the MacBook Air, it's all soldered directly onto the motherboard, including the ram and flash drive, precluding any kind of intervention by non-experts. This structure does not allow it to upgrade the ram, nor that the SSD, you should therefore think carefully before purchasing a product like this.

 

Such a structure, more than desired is due, the minimum thickness of the product could not otherwise allow. But such a solution has also advantages that translate into higher performance thanks to direct contact of the main components with the motherboard.

Noteworthy too is the dissipation system that will play an important and difficult in this new MacBook Pro with Retinal Display. All this, as clear from the upper floors of Cupertino, has been designed and built by the same, without the cooperation of outside producers.

MacBook Pro with Retinal Display start online shipping

Although Apple has already prepared a television commercial to promote his new product introduced at WWDC on Monday - the new MacBook Pro with Retinal Display -  not too encouraging news coming for those who had decided to immediately buy up the new jewel of Cupertino : the times estimated from the online store for deliveries grew up to three or four weeks.

 

We have already shown the new commercials that Apple haslaunched its new product which emphasizes all the wonders of the new very high resolution display. This means that Apple is focusing, immediately, on his new gem and will make it available as soon as possible.

Nevertheless, sales of the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display could start with a certain slowness, since estimates for shipments of the product through the online store have reached the three, four weeks , after two, three weeks estimated a few days ago.

As for the other model MacBook Pro, also renewed, there should be no supply problems , so that the online store considers them already available for shipment.