The New Macbook Pro Is Every Photographers Dream

Just a few hours ago Apple announced their all new Macbook Pro line of laptops. The most impressive of the group is the 15inch model which includes a retina display! I’m currently typing this on a massive 24inch ultra sharp monitor that has 1920×1200 pixels. Apple’s new 15 inch screen has a shocking 2800×1800 pixels. Apple also finally made the jump to USB 3.0 which makes this the most impressive laptop for creative professionals on the go. Pre-order the new machine here.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000036377161 Philip Aarseth
16K maybe?
http://www.facebook.com/alexandre.jozwicki Alexandre Jozwicki
Just to clarify something, I see a lot of comments about the resolution being too high.
The resolution in Mac OS will STILL be 1440×900. Everything will have the same size, just be more detailed.
So yes, there actually is a Mac OS “HD”.
You will be able to select a slightly higher resolution, but never the full one in Mac OS.
ajmills
I think I saw it for something like $2700 dollars. I’m not sure because I think I fainted just after. Perhaps someone can confirm this?
It’s true with the pricing over here in Europe. The official RRP for the 7D (body only) is 1699 in both the UK and the US, despite the exchange rate being in favour of the UK (it’s currently around 1.55USD to 1GBP). But thankfully, the “street” price does reflect the exchange rate better, even if it’s perhaps not as low as it should be (or we’d hope it to be).
ajmills
I was mainly commenting on the size issue, which is something that was apparently being bandied about without much thought for anything else – things like colour accuracy, viewing angle and so on. It’s perhaps not such an issue with newer LCD monitors, but how many people check the viewing angle? It’s surprising just how much the display can be affected by not looking at it more or less straight on.
But it is true that colour accuracy is important – however, how many photographers actually calibrate their monitors? I bet you it’s surprisingly few. Calibrating my laptop’s display improves it immensely as the default is too blue, and bright. And calibrated, it is better than a friend’s desktop monitor that has trouble displaying pastel/light colours (in fact in Gmail, you can barely tell if mail is read or unread).
http://www.jerritpruyn.com Jerrit Pruyn
How does everyone feel about apple not telling us the memory is soldered in and not upgradable? Also lets not forget how much apple and adobe fight. I have read several times that adobe products run better on windows.
David Vargo
Can we please have a Lee and Patrick video showing pro editing on the iphone?
Jockemon
Actually “Mac OS HD” is very much coming. The whole philosophy that Apple has is to crank up the resolution for text and images to be clearer and less pixelated, not to make everything smaller. Also, Steve Jobs started experimenting with vector based GUI’s for computer over a decade ago, just to be able to have texts, icons and so on the same size no matter the resolution. And it has already been stated that OS X apps are getting an “HD update”.
http://www.facebook.com/andre.kayser André Kayser
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http://twitter.com/wildcart_nl Marcel van Beek
I believe the new MBP’s resolution works the same as the new iPad you wont see it has a really insane high resolution. Its just all SUPER sharp :P
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I bet Blu-Ray movies will look great on the new display. What?…Oh, Blu-Ray still isn’t supported by Apple and this laptop doesn’t even have an optical drive. I really like the convenience of having an optical drive, even if it isn’t used all the time.
I prefer a thicker laptop with an optical drive over an ultra thin laptop with clunky external USB “superdrive”. I’d also like a Firewire 800 port, unless there is a really fast and reliable Thunderbolt-Firewire adapter.
If Apple got rid of the display and the keyboard this would be even lighter!!
Sorry…they already did that with the Mac min.
Love the display, sorry for the loss of convenient features. Apple was never one to hold onto fading technologies. I guess I’ll have to replace all those Firewire drives.
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Sounds great except…no optical drive??? I’d prefer a thicker laptop with an optical drive over an ultra thin laptop with a clunky external USB “superdrive”. I still prefer the convenience of an optical drive for the times when it is just nice to have it. The new display sounds great, but the lack of an optical drive and Firewire 800 limit the practicality for me. It sounds like an exotic race car designed for the track without any cup holders. I drive to work and drink coffee, and I’d like to do that in a sporty car, not an all-out race car. I prefer a balance of convenience and cutting-edge technology.
http://twitter.com/Apollo232 Mattbuzz
BE VERY CAREFUL!!! you can’t upgrade this mac see the wired article on it http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/macbook-pro-unfixable
http://www.facebook.com/hiroschneider Jaron Schneider
Sorry Robert, I misunderstood you. However, my name is Jaron.
Marc Richter
I wasn’t aware of that, thanks. I like this philosophy for iDevices but i wouldn’t mind smaller elements on a 15″… Still I think that it will take some time for all of the developers to jump on this train.
kurnikoff
Yep. You are right. Portable and powerful to quickly see photos/videos on location.
I have 17inch MacBook Pro and its heavy to drag along. I would love to switch it for smaller one sometime soon.Shame it doesn’t have FireWire built in. Using some adaptors will be on the way with this one.
But 2 big screens are proper professional editing station. Not a laptop.
kurnikoff
Hmmm … Most of stuff on TV is still SD upscaled or 720p. But more and more is being shoot to broadcast as true HD (1080p). I think we need to wait for 8k or 16k a bit longer. My bet would be that in few years everything on home TV will be 1080p/2k and then 4/8k or retina TV will be in production? not sure if 3D will get ever adapted on large scale.
kurnikoff
You will haev to use adaptor Firewire to thunderbolt. Not the best solution, but exist. At least you don’t have to use USB 2 (ugh) or sell your Gdrive.
kurnikoff
17inch is a beast to carry around :( I have one 17inch MacBook Pro and its difficult to carry around or find a camera bag that will support it. Yeah there are plenty of bags etc but choice is not as big.
Portability all the way 15inch or 13inch for preview/basic editing on the set?
kurnikoff
same in UK. £ to $. Its cheaper to buy a Virgin flight to NY, buy whatever you want and come back and still have like $500 spare or even more. :(

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