Comments on: The New MacBook Pro, a Photographer’s Perspective

By: jme

jme — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:25:00 +0000

well everyone is a fanboy of something…even with their wifey or hubby…regardless if they rock or ‘zzzzz in bed.

By: Eduardo Schäfer

Eduardo Schäfer — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:52:00 +0000

Fanboy detected

By: Richard Owen

Richard Owen — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:43:00 +0000

http://www.pcworld.com/article/257796/run_a_retina_macbook_pro_at_full_2880by1800_resolution_induce_eye_strain.html

Not sure but this may help with photoshop and Lightroom at least until they get updates… maybe.

By: Noah Schäfer

Noah Schäfer — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 02:45:00 +0000

I am a bit on the fence about this new Macbook Pro. It is a remarkable machine to be sure, but as a pro photographers tool, I am not convinced at all. At least in my line of work it´s a bit of a twilight between the time when every computer had the capability of burning cds and dvds an the not-so-far future when everything is done wireless an in the cloud. At this moment in time at least, I don´t think I can affort to have a Laptop without a replacebable battery and a cd/dvd drive (and the less said about the sd-card slot, the better). This will change of course in time, but we are not quite there yet. And I am also not shure if I can live with a clossy display – even a display as good as this one.
This new macbook is certainly a step in the right direction – but I think I will wait another couple of steps before coming on board.

By: Mattbuzz

Mattbuzz — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:37:00 +0000

I don’t understand the problem, I thought there was one resolution for one size of screen, and only the number of pixels on it would change in the case of the new macbook pro, am i mistaken somewhere ? Does it have a high resolution ? that would mean every menu, software and by the matter webpage would have to be upsized to look good on it.

By: Everything_is_a_scam

Everything_is_a_scam — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:32:00 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. Photogs so hellbent on “protecting” their works at all costs so they decrease online quality for the sake of money. If someone is going to steal, they’re going to steal, nothing you can do about it. There’s been fakes of 400 year old paintings, you think a dinky 72dpi image is going to protect you? Bigger more lush images for the web represent your work more beautifully and honestly than some junk sized images posted because someone wants to license them. User Experience > Whatever protection you think small images give. By the way, piracy is increased when content is restricted. This is a concept so many people don’t grasp. When something is made more available, even at a cost, piracy declines.

By: Everything_is_a_scam

Everything_is_a_scam — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:23:00 +0000

As a professional photographic artist I upload most of my web images at 10″x10 300dpi as it is. If someone has terrible internet speeds that’s not my problem. LTE mobile speed are plenty quick enough to handle an 800K file over a 400K file. User experience is much more important than any kind of copy protection nonsense that small images make us think we have. You get much more by giving away and by having large lush images for people to see on your site is the best thing ever, not sacrificing image size or quality because someone might download it and use it in their blog. Get over that kind of thinking. Simply set up the files correctly and you can easily search the web for all of your files to see if it has been used somewhere. So I say bring it on. 22mbps internet connections will not have any issue loading images quickly.

By: Jon T

Jon T — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:47:00 +0000

I can only tell people to go and see this notebook and see for themselves.

I checked old photos of mine which went up on the web four years ago and they looked beautiful too.All this whining is from people who all know the PRICE of everything, and the QUALITY of nothing…

Any photographer will do what it takes get one of these in their hands once they try it. Fuzziness no longer cuts it.

By: Brian Hawkins

Brian Hawkins — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Yes, exactly.

By: José Tomás Tocino

José Tomás Tocino — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:34:00 +0000

Shhhh, do you think those bloody fanboys care about expending thousands of dollars in these laptops? They will argue that “oh, nobody changes the RAM” or “those hardware-related things are for PC nerds” and such.

Go on, apple fanboys. At this pace, I can see Apple adding some more restrictions, like not being able to plug-in non-apple devices or something like that. You find it crazy now, let’s see in some years.