Macbook Pro 13" Retina

**candyflip** · 11-23-2016, 08:07 AM

My kids' mom has the 13in and it's way to small to do anything visual. She said she even struggles using it to code.

**Sly** · 11-23-2016, 08:14 AM

Originally posted by candyflip

My kids' mom has the 13in and it's way to small to do anything visual. She said she even struggles using it to code.

Why not adjust the resolution and text/icon size so they are more readable?

I recently bought a 15" 4K Dell XPS. I was annoyed at first because all the text and icons were "normal" sized and I wanted the higher resolution so I would have real estate, then I discovered I can adjust the size of the text and icons to whatever I want. Now the text and icons are quite small but I have great real estate and it displays fine on a 27" monitor anyway.

**candyflip** · 11-23-2016, 08:17 AM

Originally posted by Sly

Why not adjust the resolution and text/icon size so they are more readable?

I recently bought a 15" 4K Dell XPS. I was annoyed at first because all the text and icons were "normal" sized and I wanted the higher resolution so I would have real estate, then I discovered I can adjust the size of the text and icons to whatever I want. Now the text and icons are quite small but I have great real estate and it displays fine on a 27" monitor anyway.

Good question. But I have no answer. Lots of people don't like messing with resolution settings, so that would be my guess. That adjusting doesn't make matters better, for her...at least.

**Sid70** · 11-23-2016, 10:24 AM

Originally posted by Sly

Why not adjust the resolution and text/icon size so they are more readable?

I recently bought a 15" 4K Dell XPS. I was annoyed at first because all the text and icons were "normal" sized and I wanted the higher resolution so I would have real estate, then I discovered I can adjust the size of the text and icons to whatever I want. Now the text and icons are quite small but I have great real estate and it displays fine on a 27" monitor anyway.

Connecting external big screen sure does well, but in general, seems like not enough space - working graphics designs would be zooming all the time to see things.

**cocksucker mcgee** · 11-23-2016, 10:26 AM

Originally posted by Sid70

Connecting external big screen sure does well, but in general, seems like not enough space - working graphics designs would be zooming all the time to see things.

My advising. Do not buy for.

**Sid70** · 11-23-2016, 10:27 AM

Originally posted by cocksucker mcgee

My advising. Do not buy for.

Seems right. No matter how I want a silent computer 17" macbook pros are FUCKING GONE.

**Google Expert** · 11-23-2016, 10:58 AM

Originally posted by candyflip

My kids' mom has the 13in and it's way to small to do anything visual. She said she even struggles using it to code.

Windows has scaling for that.

I use it on my 13" 4k display - otherwise everything is way too small.

**Google Expert** · 11-23-2016, 11:01 AM

Originally posted by Sid70

Seems right. No matter how I want a silent computer 17" macbook pros are FUCKING GONE.

Silent notebook - anything without a dedicated graphics card. New intel processors have good built in graphics.

Photoshop gonna be fine unless you need video encoding.

Forget MacBooks, get a Dell XPS, they fucking rock.

**TheDynasty** · 11-23-2016, 11:02 AM

13" way to small all my laptops are 17" best to do visual work with good luck!

**2MuchMark** · 11-23-2016, 01:00 PM

It's too small. With Photoshop, the bigger the better.

What you may want to do is get the 13" Macbook, but connect it to a nice big 27 or 34" Monitor. It will support 4K res, and do so at 60hz too. If you haven't seen it, it's freakin' gorgeous.

**Google Expert** · 11-23-2016, 01:02 PM

Originally posted by TheDynasty

13" way to small all my laptops are 17" best to do visual work with good luck!

13" is for in-bed use or when you are traveling

Obviously you it's not intended as a main PC.

Altho you can hook up an external monitor to it.

**Google Expert** · 11-23-2016, 01:06 PM

Originally posted by MarkPrince

What you may want to do is get the 13" Macbook, but connect it to a nice big 27 or 34" Monitor. It will support 4K res, and do so at 60hz too. If you haven't seen it, it's freakin' gorgeous.

You can do that on an Dell XPS.

Win10 is very good. No need to fuck around with OSX.

**JFK** · 11-23-2016, 08:19 PM

Interesting comments, was about to buy one, for video editing.

**Sid70** · 11-24-2016, 04:21 AM

Originally posted by JFK

Interesting comments, was about to buy one, for video editing.

I watched many reviews, mostly people say its SUPER fine for video bloggers / editing, retina gives a lot of space for a time line. Applying effects is instant.

**Sid70** · 11-24-2016, 04:25 AM

Originally posted by Google Expert

Silent notebook - anything without a dedicated graphics card. New intel processors have good built in graphics.

Photoshop gonna be fine unless you need video encoding.

Forget MacBooks, get a Dell XPS, they fucking rock.

Dell XPS is also fairly expensive.
But I got the point - here, 15", DELL Inspiron 15 5578.
Core i7 7500U | LCD: 15.6" FHD Touch | Intel HD 620 | RAM: 16GB DDR4 | SSD: 512GB | Windows 10

Sounds good, I was hesitant only about Intel HD 620.

I want a silent non-huge ( 17 is nice I know, but 95% time i work with external monitor and other time 15 seems nice comparing to honestly big17"). 15" Full HD I can handle photoshop I guess.

**Sid70** · 11-24-2016, 05:27 AM

So, finally, I went with a maxed out macbook air 13" - good to work in the PS with an external display , good enough to play World Of Warcraft and nice to jerk off to MILF content I admire.

Main add-on - it's FUCKING SILENT.

Macbook Pro 13" Retina

Macbook Pro 13" Retina

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