Buying a used macbook pro with non retina?

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Any thoughts on non retina 15 inch used models? Wondering if this screen is awful or reasonable. Im not a massively fussy person but i dont want a screen that isnt usable for photo editing. Wonder if anyone has one and can comment. THough i will plug the laptop into a larger screen when needed, can it produce a higher resolution on a larger higher resolution screen?

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I have a 4yo 13" pro which probably has the same screen - its very good! I use it for phot editing and its fine. ALthough I will be getting a retina later in the year, its mainly down to size & weight rather than the screen. If I could get the retina macbook a few hundred cheaper with a normal screen i would. Of course, once you are used to it I am sure you would never go back.
 
cambsno said:
I have a 4yo 13" pro which probably has the same screen - its very good! I use it for phot editing and its fine. ALthough I will be getting a retina later in the year, its mainly down to size & weight rather than the screen. If I could get the retina macbook a few hundred cheaper with a normal screen i would. Of course, once you are used to it I am sure you would never go back.
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thank you, and the screen is is very square or is it more like a widescreen type layout. the photos im looking at look really square screened but i think its cos of the lens/camera the pics of the laptop were taken on.
 
All Apple's displays have been wide aspect ratio for quite some time now - one of the first to push the format back in 2001 with the 15.4" G4 Titanium PowerBook.
 
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I find them utterly useless. Give me a cheap < £50 old Dell u2007wfp from ebay any day over one of these TN glossy screens.

Retina are a lot better, but sadly way too small for serious editing.
 
I've had a look at the Retina displays and personally found them utterly useless for photography. Having the image at a useful size means processing it to fit which I don't want and I couldn't find an option to use it at native resolution, but even at native resolution things would have been so damned small they'd still have been useless. My 2 year old MacBook Pro won't be giving way to a Retina model anytime soon!
 
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thanks for your input everyone, so if i plug the mbp into a larger higher resolution monitor that i have will the mbp support that? Will i get the full resolution of the monitor that is higher than that of the mbp?
 
I have a recent 2GHz/i7 from last year and it's non-retina but the screen is amazing. Beautiful for image editing and graphics work. It's glossy and in some cases the reflection can put you off slightly until you get used to it, but otherwise I use mine in all sorts of lighting and can't fault it. Anyone who dismisses them as not being up to standard and too small are, in my book, far too picky ad don't see the bigger picture of what these machines allow you to do on the move. It's truly a brilliant, brilliant machine for portable image eding.
 
specialman said:
I have a recent 2GHz/i7 from last year and it's non-retina but the screen is amazing. Beautiful for image editing and graphics work. It's glossy and in some cases the reflection can put you off slightly until you get used to it, but otherwise I use mine in all sorts of lighting and can't fault it. Anyone who dismisses them as not being up to standard and too small are, in my book, far too picky ad don't see the bigger picture of what these machines allow you to do on the move. It's truly a brilliant, brilliant machine for portable image eding.
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Couldn't agree more! I use a 27 inch iMac for working at home but my non-retina 15 inch MacBook Pro is my 'on the move' machine and it performs superbly. I could quite easily edit using that alone and not have any significant problems.
 
mart77 said:
thanks for your input everyone, so if i plug the mbp into a larger higher resolution monitor that i have will the mbp support that? Will i get the full resolution of the monitor that is higher than that of the mbp?
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The full 27" glory of it, and you still keep the MBP screen separate if you want

specialman said:
I have a recent 2GHz/i7 from last year and it's non-retina but the screen is amazing. Beautiful for image editing and graphics work. It's glossy and in some cases the reflection can put you off slightly until you get used to it, but otherwise I use mine in all sorts of lighting and can't fault it. Anyone who dismisses them as not being up to standard and too small are, in my book, far too picky ad don't see the bigger picture of what these machines allow you to do on the move. It's truly a brilliant, brilliant machine for portable image eding.
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'on the move' and 'portable' are the key words here
 
daugirdas said:
...'on the move' and 'portable' are the key words here
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Indeed, which is the point of a laptop, but I've used mine static in an office environment with ease. Yes, if you gave me the choice of a 15" screen and a 27" iMac then I go for the bigger screen every day, but that fact I could just unplug the MBP and take it out in the field/take home and edit was the plus point.

You choose the kit that suits how you work I suppose....
 
daugirdas said:
The full 27" glory of it, and you still keep the MBP screen separate if you want



'on the move' and 'portable' are the key words here
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Excellent, this is what I want, portable but at home it's getting plugged in to a big matte screen. So I'm happy with that. Will upgrade to 16gb ram and ssd.
 
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