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Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors
First time accepted submitter zer0point writes "Apple has just announced the next-generation Macbook Pro with a retina display. Starting today you can also order a MacBook Pro upgraded with Ivy Bridge CPUs, and Nvidia graphics. Mountain Lion got some various updates, and as expected iOS 6 was announced. In rumor news, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a note to investors, 'Based on the release schedule for iOS 6 GM, there is a very good chance iPhone 5 will start shipping also in early September.'"
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The point of the "retina display" resolution is that everything is doubled. 2880x1800 is going to work effectively like 1440x900. Fonts are rendered at twice the size, images are twice the size, etc.. You're not going to be looking at tiny windows with tiny fonts, you're going to be looking at normal sized windows with normal sized fonts that look much smoother - almost print like. The higher resolution just allows much more detail.
I mean, it's a bit expensive ($2199 in stock configuration), but how can you look at these five lines:
2880x1800 resolution screen (this is insane)
256 GB solid-state hard drive
2.3 GHz quad-core Intel i7
8 GiB memory
7-hour battery life
and not want one?
Karma: pi (Mostly due to circular reasoning in posts).
Mac's hold their value so well that its better to sell and buy a new Mac than to keep and treasure a computer for many years and upgrade it
Personally, I don't think Apple will let a numeric inconsistency like "iPhone 5 released with iOS 6" stand.
They let the iPhone 3G come out with iOS 2 and the 4S ship with iOS 5. That said, I do agree that they're likely to simply drop the numbering.
On the store now. $29.
That's hardly going to break the budget for a top of the line $2,199 laptop buyer.
He's talking about the red-headed step child of the Mac line: the Mac Pro. Mac Pro is still stuck in USB2 land. I think it's outrageous they're marketing it as "new". It's 3+ year old technology at $2500 base price for 4 cores.
The cabin pressure of a typical commercial flight is 8,000 ft or below, even though you're at 35,000. So it'll work just fine.
10,000 just seems to be the standard everyone who isn't making ruggedized parts bothers to test to. I doubt it'd fail catastrophically at 10,001 or even 15,000.
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