I kind of wish they had a non-Retina MacBook Pro with that form factor. I don't need the optical drive and I don't need the Retina. - Akiva

That display must suck up a lot of juice. It has a 95 watt-hour battery in there (vs 77.5 and 63.5). It's still pretty heavy at 4.46 lbs. - Rodfather

I'm surprised the video card isn't different from the non-retina MBPs. - Victor Ganata

The older chips could probably run at that resolution when plugged into a Thunderbolt display. From the past, it was the Video RAM that determined how high of resolution you can run. - Rodfather

It's probably like with the new iPad. You won't appreciate it until you see it in person. Reading text is probably a whole lot nicer. With video, there probably won't be much difference. It would be scaled up anyway and might look worse. It would probably be marginally better for photos. - Rodfather from iPhone

What rez does it run at then? - ronin from FFHound!

My first ultra-portable notebook (without an internal CD drive) had a 12" 800x600 display. It was nice viewing 360p/480p video in a window since it filled the screen. Those were relatively fat pixels. - Rodfather

2880x1800 - Rodfather

Unless an app is Retina Display aware, though, it probably won't really run at that resolution. D3 is one of the few games that lets you choose that resolution. The release version of Chrome looks terrible (although they added support in the nightlies.) - Victor Ganata

That's odd. I would think the OS and apps would just see it as just another monitor. - Rodfather

Well, I guess it would need to adjust the UI for the different dpi. Otherwise, the icons, etc would look extremely small. - Rodfather

For games that run full screen, I guess it depends on how they address the hardware. For windowed apps, it looks like it has to do with the text rendering. - Victor Ganata

It's hard enough for desktop CPUs and GPUs to run games at that resolution. - Rodfather

If they created a MacBook with a i3/i5 processor and a low power display, but with the same 95 watt-hour battery, it could reach 20 hours of battery life. It's almost all battery in there. The logic board is pretty small. - Rodfather

They should stick that battery into the MacBook Air - Victor Ganata

Na, I'd rather keep it light and stick with efficient processors. - Rodfather