A MacBook Pro announced during the summer 2012 WWDC. The 15-inch screen has a native resolution of 2880 by 1800, making it by far the highest resolution display on a portable computer.
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Disable Stand By Mode on Retina MacBook Pro?
I learned that the retina MacBook Pro has a Deep Sleep Mode that is initiated when left idle for a long time. This, however, causes my laptop to take about 3-5 seconds to wake up after it sleeps, such ...
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How to open or toggle Keyboard Viewer by a keyboard shortcut?
I changed the shortcut to Command ⌘ + X to change the language of the keyboard.
However I would like to display the Keyboard Viewer using a shortcut as well.
Is there a way to display the Keyboard ...
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Wallpaper settings keep resetting?
I added a folder with some wallpapers to the Desktop settings and also applied Change Picture every 30 mins. However, the folder randomly disappears and the wallpaper switches back to the Galaxy one ...
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Macbook Pro Retina running at native resolution
A question I've had in my head since I first saw screenshots of the display preference pane on the new Retina MBP is this: Can it be made to run with what you could call a 1.0 UI scaling factor (same ...
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How does Eclipse work on new Retina MacBook Pros?
I'm thinking about buying the new MacBook Pro. I will use it mostly to write code when I'm not at home and I've read that non-native apps look horrible due to the resolution. I was wondering if ...
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How many external displays can I power with the 15" retina MacBook Pro?
I have three 24" (1920x1200) Dells that I would like to use on a single setup. With the 15" retina MacBook Pro having two Thunderbolt ports and one HDMI connector, would it be possible to connect them ...
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Why is a Retina MacBook running 1440x900 grainy under Boot Camp?
I have a MacBook Retina running Windows 8 RP, with the driver that comes with Boot Camp.
I understand why running in a none native resolution like 1920x1200 is grainy. But 1440x900 is exactly half ...
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MacBook Retina Display for coding
This is a question that could be better on Stack Overflow or Programmers, but I thought I'd try it here first.
As a programmer, I need lots of screen real-estate for the IDE and files that I'm ...
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Is a 3-5 second delay normal for a Retina MacBook Pro to wake up from sleep?
For 3 days, I now got a new rMBP. I am a first time Mac user.
I had a friend with a MBP and it usually wakes up in a mere second, as soon as he opens the laptop's lid up. However in my Retina MBP, it ...
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How to stop MacBook Pro (Retina) from freezing/locking at the login/authentication dialogue, after wake?
Steps to reproduce:
Be doing anything
Close the lid of the computer
Wait around for a while
Open the lid of the computer
Login prompt for last logged in user appears, battery and time MAY update, ...
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External display on MacBook Pro Retina (Mountain Lion) remains blank after screen timeout or waking up from sleep
I have a retina MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion with a 23" external display attached through the Thunderbolt port (DVI/Display Port adapter). I have the monitor configured as an extension to my ...
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What is the max resolution output by the HDMI port of the MacBook Pro Retina?
Does the new MacBook Pro Retina output 2560x1600 to the HDMI port?
The reason I ask is that I would like to drive 2x30 inch 2560x1600 monitors while still using the Gigabit Ethernet adapter. (My ...
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How do I locate applications that drain my battery on a MacBook Pro?
I purchased a new Macbook Pro and have since downloaded a ton of applications and add ins. I think some of these apps are responsible for draining my battery too quickly.
How do I identify what ...
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Does the new Macbook Pro with Retina display have user-upgradeable RAM?
I'm interested in purchasing the new MacBook Pro with Retina display, but it's not clear from the tech specs page whether the RAM is user-upgradeable or not.
Do I need to take into account future RAM ...
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Size of text in the new Retina MacBook Pros
I saw there is a new version of MacBook Pro is out which has Retina Display. This means there are more pixel per inch. Does this imply that text is smaller?
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Is the retina Macbook Pro's SSD soldered into the logic board?
The Macbook Air's SSD can be manually upgraded.
The RAM of the Macbook Air and retina MBP however are soldered into the logic board.
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Is the retina Macbook Pro's SSD soldered into the logic ...
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What terminal command shows the type of display that I have on my MacBook Pro?
What terminal command shows the type of display that I have on my MacBook Pro? I used the following command in terminal and it didn't work:
ioreg -lw0 | grep \"EDID\" | sed "/[^<]*
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Using SD Card as external storage for Macbook Pro retina
I am getting a new Macbook Pro retina display with 256GB flash storage. The capacity may be a little bit too tight, but I should be able to manage it. I am considering to get a 128GB SD card as a ...
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My Retina MacBook Pro is missing some icons suddenly! What happened?
This happened after a wake from sleep. And rebooting doesn't solve the problem! Has anyone encountered this problem before?
Every item in the bar, for example Safari, has no previous and next arrows ...
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How many monitors can the new retina MacBook Pro handle and at which pixels resolutions?
How many monitors can the new retina MacBook Pro handle and at which pixels resolutions?
e. g. Does it support three cinema displays?
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What happened to detect displays?
I'm running Mountain Lion with a retina MacBook Pro with three external monitors attached. Quite often, one or more of the monitors blacks out. Normally, I would choose "detect displays" in the ...
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Font smoothing on external display working badly. (rMBP)
I have attached two external monitors to my retina MacBook Pro:
24" Dell 1920x1200 with HDMI->DVI
19" Samsung 1280x1024 with Thunderbolt->VGA
While non-retina enabled apps look just fine (e.g. ...
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Which versions of Xcode are not updated to take advantage of HiDPI/Retina displays?
I've been looking over the release notes for Xcode and can't find one that says it's been enabled for HiDPI mode and the retina display MacBook Pro. By enabled, I mean that Xcode will run on the new ...
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How often should I remove the charger from my rMBP?
I want my battery to remain healthy. I used to charge it full then remove the charger after it's done, then put it back on when it goes down to 10% .. However this is becoming hectic and I was ...
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Is retina text in a non-retina OS X Application possible?
Is it possible to have a pre-retina Application have good retina text. As in MenuBar text, and textbox and textfields and other text locations as long as the original developer used native OS X text ...
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Usign iMac as a Display for MacBook Pro
I did some research on this and they were saying Press Command+F2
So did I ! But here are the issues I saw with this method:
The youtube video that was previously running on iMac continued to run, I ...
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How to use a wired headphone AND a mic at the same time on the Macbook Pro Retina?
I'm surprised that the Macbook Pro Retina has only one 3.5mm audio jack. It seems that port can be either headphone or mic in depending on what's connected but I need BOTH at the same time for Skype! ...
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Has Apple any policy for dead/stuck pixel in MacBook Pro Retina
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro with Retina display. I always struggled with different kind of problems when I was an owner of other laptops like ASUS, HP, DELL, etc. I wanted something more ...
