on 2012-11-27 12:34 Larry Colen wrote
As was pointed out, you can still get refurbs. However, you get some amazing resolution with the retina displays, 2560x1600 in 13" or 2880x1800 in 15".
depends on your eyes and what you are expecting — you don't get elbow room, you get crispness; the Retina Macs do not use those pixels to make four times as much working area for windows, tool bars, etc.; instead they double the linear resolution so that (most) things look crisper but the display area on the 15" in many ways still acts like the 1440x900 display on regular MacBook Pros; you can adjust the default scaling to get a bigger desktop area, but the trade-off is that text is scaled down and everything is approximated (because the scaling is fractional; a full 2880x1800 desktop is not supported)
so photos, when managed appropriately will look really good, but those wanting more working space may be disappointed
the alternative is high pixel count non-retina displays; i have a 15" "hi-res" MacBook Pro (1680x1050, 128 ppi), and i very much like the space for fitting multi-paned windows and other tools onto the screen, however it's sometimes hard to read text at "normal" size, even with reading glasses; especially in low light (when lower depth of field and limited presbyopic focus range collide) i often find myself bumping the text size on web pages or moving windows onto my 24" display (94 ppi); there are "hi-res" versions of the 17" MacBook Pro available as refurbs (1920x1200, 132ppi)
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