{"id":5298,"date":"2012-07-07T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T23:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2017-06-20T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:03:22","slug":"retina-macbook-pro-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/07\/retina-macbook-pro-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Retina MacBook Pro Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/24\/anandtechs-retina-macbook-pro-review\/\">before<\/a> that I upgraded to a Retina MacBook Pro earlier than I would have under normal circumstances. However, it&rsquo;s been a very pleasant upgrade. Subjectively, it feels much faster. And in terms of benchmarks, it takes 4m26s to build SpamSieve.app on the 2010 MacBook Pro (2.66 GHz dual-core i7, SSD) vs. just 2m2s on the Retina MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz quad-core i7). Backups and restores using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newertech.com\/products\/voyagerq.php\">Voyager S3<\/a> are between 2 and 4 times faster since the new Mac has USB 3. It also has more internal storage, so I can now put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/fusion\/\">VMware Fusion<\/a> on the flash drive, which makes a huge difference. So far the only hiccup has been that it wouldn&rsquo;t recognize the native resolution of my external display until I Option-clicked the &ldquo;Scaled&rdquo; radio button in the Displays preference pane. I&rsquo;m also looking into using an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B003V7HUFM\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">HDMI cable<\/a> to connect my Dell display, so that I won&rsquo;t need the flaky, USB-powered <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/03\/mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter-improved\/\">Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-07-19): The &ldquo;Dual Link&rdquo; cable that I got only worked up to 1280&#215;800. I now believe that there are no HDMI-to-DVI cables that work with dual-link resolutions. An active adapter may be required.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-09-06): <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.latenightsw.com\/?p=662\">Mark Aldritt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.latenightsw.com\/?p=662\"><p>[This] is the first time I&rsquo;ve gotten a new Mac laptop that was dramatically faster than my previous machine. The combination of solid-state disk, lots of RAM and a fast CPU make the machine very responsive. Building my Script Debugger 5 product from scratch went from ~4m30s down to ~1m15s.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned before that I upgraded to a Retina MacBook Pro earlier than I would have under normal circumstances. However, it&rsquo;s been a very pleasant upgrade. Subjectively, it feels much faster. And in terms of benchmarks, it takes 4m26s to build SpamSieve.app on the 2010 MacBook Pro (2.66 GHz dual-core i7, SSD) vs. just 2m2s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255,1035,30,211,100,83,1073,183,372,175,29],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-compiler","tag-hdmi","tag-mac","tag-lion","tag-macbookpro","tag-retina","tag-script-debugger","tag-ssd","tag-spamsieve","tag-usb","tag-vmware"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}