Retina display is at a higher resolution than Cinema Display - 2880x1800 vs. 2560x1440.
The only true high DPI monitor in the history has been IBM T221.
I'm fine with my 1920X1080 display thank you.
Apple wants ?200 for 2x 4GB RAM, they must be mad!
Yep that legitimately sux, at least with mine I can just get more RAM from Newegg.Their upgrade prices have always been ridiculous. The only difference now is that you can't upgrade yourself anymore, since the RAM in the Retina MBP is soldered onto the mainboard.
Actually, the $200 for the RAM upgrade isn't that bad, because the retina MBP uses a low voltage and high MHz ram, which is around $130 currently. Personally, I've upgraded my early 2011 MBP from 4GB to 8GB mainly because of video editing in FCPX. It's now quite smooth when working with full HD video, so the 16GB would most likely be an overkill. The 8GB feels more than plenty for any other tasks.
My MBA has 4GB of RAM. I just checked, and it's currently reporting 7.2GB swap used. It's running Safari, Terminal, Chrome, and Mail.I gotta say my MBP only has 4GBs of RAM and I can't say that ever ran into memory issue but I'm not that heavy of a user.
My MBA has 4GB of RAM. I just checked, and it's currently reporting 7.2GB swap used. It's running Safari, Terminal, Chrome, and Mail.
The issue for me is I try to avoid restarting my web browser or my computer (the machine has been up for 33 days, though Safari's been running for far less time than that). Web browsers tend to have memory leaks (or just be hungry about caching things endlessly) and some of the OS processes will cache things and/or have memory leaks of their own. Thankfully, the SSD in the MBA makes using swap somewhat less painful, but the machine can still end up a bit slower due to "not enough RAM" from time to time.
ETA: After quitting and restarting the web browsers, it's reporting 1.3GB swap used with ~1.3GB RAM free. It's not pulling things out of swap because they're rarely used, and it'll use the free RAM for other things before it touches that swap. OS X is pretty good about managing swap properly (at least for my use), and remembering application state makes restarting the apps much less of an annoyance than it used to be.
I'm also a member of the no restart club. As for killing apps before putting the machine to sleep, I never do, if I had to do that...i would just shut down.
Personally, I've upgraded my early 2011 MBP from 4GB to 8GB mainly because of video editing in FCPX. It's now quite smooth when working with full HD video, so the 16GB would most likely be an overkill. The 8GB feels more than plenty for any other tasks.
I know they won't ship to Scotland but this a section specifically for Mac RAM http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=551&name=Mac-MemoryI know this isn't part of the main discussion, but what make of RAM did you buy for your MBP? When I bought my 15" in December I intentionally didn't upgrade the RAM (because it was quite expensive and I got the high res display instead) so I could do it myself, and I was just wondering how much and what make would be best for it.