I think that all of my staff want them.  They say they need more than 256GB of 
storage but are rarely able to qualify why.

Most 'big' client DB dumps are <4GB.

Pascal: its just a couple of meals at Toqué!

Karl

On 2012-08-08, at 12:11 AM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't have the cash for a rMBP so that solves the problem anyway :-) 
> Ordered the MBA with the i7.
> 
>> Its not pixel perfect.  I notice a little haziness when I crank up the rez. 
>> 
>> What appears to be happening is that the rMBP is rendering to a backing 
>> store at 2x the resolution.  So 4x the total of number of pixels.  Then it 
>> samples them down to the panels natural resolution.  And none of this 
>> appears to be happening in hardware...all just software.  That's about 15 
>> million pixels being manipulated.
>> 
>> I think its a great dev and web dev machine but this type of manipulation 
>> needs to go on at the silicon level.
>> 
>> Karl
>> 
>> On 2012-08-07, at 6:40 PM, Jesse Tayler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> had you noticed that with the macbook retina, you can crank the screen 
>>> resolution up and down? 
>>> 
>>> some 1920x1200 pixels if you like.
>>> 
>>> the quality is still very high, very readable and the steps to zoom the 
>>> screen up and down are by pixel-perfect ratios, so things basically always 
>>> look good.
>>> 
>>> I hear also, you can connect four external monitors at the same time, which 
>>> would be a cool flight simulator if nothing else...
>>> 
>>> lastly, having used the new macbook for development of both WO and of iOS 
>>> on the same machine - I can say -- it's an incredible developer box, er, 
>>> portable.
>>> 
>>> if you don't require the super-light portability of the Air and you want 
>>> screen real estate, something fast and to last
>>> 
>>>      - the macbook retina would be it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Le 2012-08-07 à 10:00, Henrique Gomes a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>>> Hey, I also have a 2008 MBP, but it does have a SSD drive…. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Couldn't you also just bring an airport base station? One less cable to 
>>>>> plug…
>>>> 
>>>> It's an option. I was thinking of a MacBook Pro 13", but the screen 
>>>> resolution is not high enough for when I work at home without an external 
>>>> monitor.
>>>> 
>>>>> HG
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 07/08/2012, at 14:49, Pascal Robert wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> So I'm really tired of my poor Early 2008 MBP, so I'm thinking to moving 
>>>>>> to a MacBook Air with the i7/8 GB upgrade. I just did a GeekBench test 
>>>>>> on my MBP and it's almost half the speed of a MBA… 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My main concerns with the MBA is the lack of ports and Mountain Lion. So 
>>>>>> anyone have moved to Mountain Lion yet? I did move the family's Mac Mini 
>>>>>> to Mountain Lion and so far so good, but I don't do anything development 
>>>>>> on it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I also need to buy a Ethernet adaptor because the co-working space I 
>>>>>> rent only have Ethernet. That means I need to buy the USB Ethernet 
>>>>>> adaptor because I need the Thunderbolt port to connect my external 
>>>>>> display. Does anyone here using the USB Ethernet adaptor with the new 
>>>>>> MacBook Air and Mountain Lion?
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