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Can't believe nobody mentioned this, but for me the Air is still the winner because it has more usable screen space.

The 13" rMBP, while nice, only has an effective resolution of 1280x800, which I find to be unusable.

With the Air you get 1440x900 at a DPI that's still pretty nice.

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Nope, got the new 13inch retina today, and it has 1680x1050 resolution. It astonishingly usable in that resolution, although I was sceptical before, my doubts are gone. Only thing: When working with my 17inch macbook, suddenly everything looks so freakishly large!

It has scaled-mode resolutions including 1440x900, 1680x1050, and maybe 1920x1200, which all have noticeable annoyances.

huh? the pro has more pixels, and you can scale the ui up/down as you prefer. i'm pretty sure you get way more effective screen space at the highest density setting.

The highest density(native res) is too small to work with, half resolution that scales every pixel 4x gives you actually less workspace than the Air does. Anything in between is blurry. Really, the Retina crammed a lot of pixels into that screen,but without any effective way to use them efficiently.

They allow native res access now?

No, you need a special program to enable it.

Does that program still work in mavericks?

I'm nearsighted and can see that with little issue.

ah, i see, didn't realise the inbetween scaling was blurry. on the 15 i find the inbetween scaling pretty good myself.

The simulated 1440x900 mode on the 13" rMBP is very nice.

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