On: MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis

[tjoff]

I don't know which screenshots you look at but there sure is blur when not dealing with apps that aware of the retina display, such as chrome (left) vs. safari (right): http://images.anandtech.com/doci/5998/Screen%20Shot%202012-0...

In other words, it depends but it most certainly will have its share of issues, question is for how long.

[jonhendry → tjoff]

I would probably look at apps other than Chrome. There's "unaware of the retina display", and there's "we eschewed native APIs to some extent and rolled our own implementations of stuff".

I don't know if this is the case, exactly, with Chrome. I'm just saying it might not be wise to generalize from Chrome's appearance to retina-naive 3rd party apps in general.

[lloeki → jonhendry]

> I don't know if this is the case, exactly, with Chrome

As part of its security model, Chrome does something akin to rendering everything offscreen in an unprivileged process then passing that to the user-facing process.

[jonhendry → lloeki]

Yeah, that sounds like it would do it. On the bright side, maybe they just have to double their offscreen buffer size.

[rbanffy → jonhendry]

Actually, since it's 2D, they have to quadruple it.

[bitrot → tjoff]

Yes, but that's not the kind of blurry at issue here.