I left behind my 2007 13″ MacBook and bought a shiny new, 15″ Retina MacBook Pro. I’m all about adaptation so I took the early adopter route and jumped on this train before having any idea where it was going. As a former print-only designer I faced this choice, Flash developers are currently facing this choice, you might as well join the club. They do, and you have two choices: adapt or die. Whether or not retina screens should exist in the mainstream market is really an irrelevant discussion. “I knew there would be some troubles, and there are.” Living and Working On a Retina MacBook Pro I’m sure you’re glad they they did, so stop being one of the people who are dragged kicking and screaming into progress and instead try attacking challenges head on and contributing something valuable to the conversation. Sure, it may not seem like it, but keep in mind that once upon a time computer monitors only possessed a handful of colors and you can bet that there were people in the industry at the time that insisted that they go no further. Especially when Apple is in the driver’s seat.Īnd that’s a good thing. They are not based on whether or not they will inconvenience anyone. Advances are made when there’s a market for them and the technological know how is present to produce a quality result that consumers can afford. Unfortunately, that’s how the technology industry works. The arrival of high resolution computing presents the same problems, both for consumers and content creators alike. Especially when Apple is in the driver’s seat.” “Advances are not based on whether or not they will inconvenience anyone. Ten minutes of this and you’ll be thanking the technology gods daily for the almighty Blu-ray. Within seconds you’ll wonder how in the world you ever managed to endure such a poor visual experience. The only way to really appreciate what this is like without experiencing it for yourself is to find an old CRT television and hook it up to a VCR so you can watch a movie. My eyes have been opened and suddenly the same screen that I never had an issue with looks downright dark and muddy. I can barely stand to look at my old MacBook any more. One day with the retina screen convinced me that the critics are wrong. Like Ian Malcom castigating John Hammond for his hasty decision to bring dinosaurs back from the dead, these critics insist that just because Apple can make such a screen, doesn’t mean that they should. I’ve read several articles lately from creatives who are actually quite angry with Apple for pushing the industry down such a troublesome path. “As we see high density screens get larger and larger I start to question, why? Just because we can?” – John Carey
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