[Discuss] Class action against "Secure Boot"

[drew.vanzandt at gmail.com (Drew Van Zandt)]

I'm confused... does the retina display HARDWARE scale the images up?  I
have zero interest in MacOS; I'd be using Ubuntu.  (Assuming the HW is
supported at some point.)

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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 6/22/2012 1:45 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>
>> I want a retina display Macbook running Linux, though.  Screen size (in
>> pixels) is my #1 laptop decision-making spec.
>>
>
> Problem is, the retina Macbooks aren't really 2880x1800 in practical use.
>  A 1" by 1" image on a standard 15" (1440x900) screen would be 1/2" by 1/2"
> on the retina Macbook, except that it scales the image up to 1" by 1".  The
> results range from ugly to atrocious.
>
> The exceptions are Apple's own applications which are "optimized" for the
> retina display.  "Optimized" means "scaling is overridden by the
> application".  Only Apple's own first party applications are so optimized.
>
> If you really want pixels then wait for the IGZO notebooks to start
> rolling off the lines.
>
>
> --
> Rich P.
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