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post #21 of 40
11/4/12 at 5:50pm
With Windows 8 being in tablets in the form of Windows RT, I would've thought they had added the feature of actually scaling things well with their vastly different resolutions. I'm quite negatively surprised. One can always wish for a patch I guess, but I think I'm still going to stay in Win 7
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post #22 of 40
11/4/12 at 8:52pm
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Originally Posted by steelbom View Post

Nothing does right now, but still 1080p at 11 inches on a Zenbook is pretty small. So if scaling works on that, I can't see why it wouldn't work on this.

1080p is still well within the "standard" resolutions even though it's in a 11" package. The retina's high resolution is unprecedented.

Even OS X applications show that they're not designed for it (i.e. all of the office 2011 applications, Adobe applications). All of their dialog boxes and icons are all pixelated due to scaling up to the high resolution. Windows just likes to operate at native resolution.
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11/4/12 at 8:58pm
I have Windows 8 installed on my rMBP and it works well and it does have retina support... at least on my computer.
There are some minor issues with bootcamp, but there are ways around it.

Overall, I think Windows 8 is a significant improvement over Windows 7 for the rMBP.
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11/4/12 at 9:01pm
Apple will probably release support soon for 8 on Camp.
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post #25 of 40
11/4/12 at 10:06pm
Lets take a step back and look at the discussion that we're having. Beyond 1600p on a FIFTEEN inch laptop. I love living in the future and I can't wait until the industry catches up. Thankfully it's only a matter of time until all OSes support high DPI biggrin.gif. I have nothing more to add to add to the discussion beyond this tiny morsel of glee. Carry on!
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11/5/12 at 12:09am
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Windows 8 has built in drivers for everything a mac needs with the exception being the newer models. Windows 8 on a 2011 Macbook Air works perfectly too. I'm not surprised to hear it ran great on a 2009, but even with drivers, any copy of windows is going to be a nightmare on a retina Macbook until Microsoft gives us halfway decent scaling.

Oh ok
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11/5/12 at 1:10am
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i wish they would. the reality is windows is behind linux in terms of scaling. windows is bulky and outdated. linux+open office should be eating their lunch, but linux doesn't have the advertising dollars. the only problem with linux as far as im concerned is lack of support for netflix.

of course apple is ahead of them both.
Yeah definitely. It's one area they need to really catch up on.
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1080p is still well within the "standard" resolutions even though it's in a 11" package. The retina's high resolution is unprecedented.
That shouldn't matter though. You're still likely to apply scaling settings to it, and I can't think of any reason why it would work at that resolution, but not at a higher one.
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Even OS X applications show that they're not designed for it (i.e. all of the office 2011 applications, Adobe applications). All of their dialog boxes and icons are all pixelated due to scaling up to the high resolution. Windows just likes to operate at native resolution.
That's right. OS X applications which haven't been updated to support the Retina display are simply upscaled to the appropriate size, rather then being rendered with more pixels.
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11/5/12 at 1:23am
Buy macbook pro for windows? doh.gif
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11/5/12 at 1:41am
If you're using Windows on an Apple device there's something wrong with your brain.
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11/5/12 at 1:59am
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Buy macbook pro for windows? doh.gif

Okay. Moniez please?
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If you're using Windows on an Apple device there's something wrong with your brain.

Why? I've never had issues with Windows 7 on my MBP via BootCamp and it did what I needed it to do, IMO it was /better/ than using a 'Windows' laptop.
(I need bootcamp for college, Visual Studio, OneNote e.c.t)
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