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Comment by icegreentea | Hacker News Reader

Should clear this up. There is an updated MacBook Air line (11" and 13"). There is an updated MacBook Pro line (13" and 15" with 'normal' screen, same chassis and updated internals). And then there is a new 15" MacBook Pro with a 2880 x 1800 screen and is 0.71" thick. I like to dub this one the MacBook Pro Air.

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Thanks for adding that.

As I understand, the "Retina display" label takes into account the recommended viewing distance from the display. An iPhone display will be held much closer than someone (with proper posture) at a laptop.

So the Air do not have the retina display? The 15" pro would be good, but can not go back to a mechanical hdd.

It's flash based, up to 768GB.

The 15" Pro with the retina display is SSD.

Just read that as well, which makes it a very valid option. Would be great to develop on a screen like this.

No, but if you want you can get 11" or 13" ultrabook from Asus with a 1080p resolution.

Except that Windows doesn't have the HiDPI concept, which makes all your UI truly tiny and useless.

You can change the DPI in Windows. Not all apps properly support high DPI settings, but that probably won't be different on OSX, at least in the beginning. What you can't do in Windows is have different DPI settings for different displays, and I wonder how a retina MacBook will work with a non-retina external display.

I'm waiting for them to rename the MacBook Air to MacBook.

I think they are all eventually going to be MacBook.

MacPad

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