May I know average battery life per full charge on MBPRD? Let's say heavy web browsing, 80% screen brightness, etc

Since the screen consumes more cpu and gpu usages, does it affect battery life? How is the battery life of MBPRD compared to normal MBP?

For those complaining about scroll lags and general UI lags on the MBP RD, the new Golden Master release of Mountain Lion just released yesterday to developers, have fixed that.



GM release is as close as the official release of Mountain Lion itself. Expect awesomeness for your new Retina Display MacBook Pro.

Saw an interesting thread in Macrumors, those who ordered RMBP and got delayed in shipment, perhaps you guys should start calling Apple

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1394619&page=6

May I know average battery life per full charge on MBPRD? Let's say heavy web browsing, 80% screen brightness, etc

Since the screen consumes more cpu and gpu usages, does it affect battery life? How is the battery life of MBPRD compared to normal MBP?

Apple's new Airport Express with ATV form factor is NOW AVAILABLE at Machines! I got mine at Machines KLCC. RM299.



The unboxing:

I don't like the new form factor. I'm using Airport Express' all over my house to extend the WiFi range, and the previous direct-to-wall one suits me perfectly as I have one in the TV room, the kitchen, near my bedroom and the study room.

I can't imagine placing this new one in my kitchen and outside my bedroom 

I don't like the new form factor. I'm using Airport Express' all over my house to extend the WiFi range, and the previous direct-to-wall one suits me perfectly as I have one in the TV room, the kitchen, near my bedroom and the study room.

I can't imagine placing this new one in my kitchen and outside my bedroom 

You obviously don't travel much. If you do, you will come to a situation where hotels/locations have wall sockets that is too close to each other that using the Airport Express plugged into that socket blocks the other socket ports. OR in the case of the American wall ports, because of the thinness of the two prongs connected to the Airport Express, and the weight of the Airport Express itself, it will make the Airport Express droop out of the socket unless you prop its bottom with something.

The old AP may be perfect for certain situation, but it isn't for some other situation as well. The nature of Malaysian wall sockets where the ports are placed well far apart, you don't face the "ports blocked by the big body of the old AP"   scenario. OR the drooping. Or if you've been to some European locations, the position of the wall sockets are not ideal to just use the prongs to hold up the weight of the AP by those prongs itself.

Purported 13" Retina MacBook Pro benchmarks appear, launch rumored before Oct.


As benchmarks for an unreleased MacBook Pro running a previously unknown build of Mountain Lion have appeared, a new rumor suggests Apple could launch its 13-inch Retina display MacBook Pro before October of this year.

Test results for an unreleased "MacBookPro10,2" model first appeared in Geekbench logs in late June. The authenticity of the listing, which was brought to AppleInsider's attention on Tuesday, cannot be verified.

It shows that a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8 Build 12A2056 uploaded Geekbench data on June 29. The machine was running an Intel Core i7-3520M Ivy Bridge processor clocked at 2.9 gigahertz.

The sole listing for the machine gives it a Geekbench score of 7806. That's below a score of 10999 earned by the new 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i7-3615QM processor clocked at 2.3 gigahertz, but is higher than scores of around 5000 earned by early 2011 13-inch MacBook Pros.

The Geekbench listing also shows the unreleased MacBook Pro with an Apple-manufactured motherboard identified as "Mac-AFD8A9D944EA4843," while the BIOS is listed as "MBP102.88Z.00F2.B00.1206111035." The test machine had 4 gigabytes of 1600 megahertz DDR3 RAM.



Evidence of a new 13-inch MacBook Pro comes as a report from DigiTimes on Tuesday claimed that upstream component suppliers are preparing to provide parts to Apple for a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display in the third quarter of 2012. Citing anonymous sources in the supply chain, the report said it is believed the new MacBook Pro could launch before October. Earlier reports had suggested the new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro will be introduced by early October.

The Geekbench sighting is not the first instance of a "MacBookPro10,2" in the wild. Last month, an online battery test also potentially identified a 13-inch version of a MacBook Pro with Retina display.

The data discovered on Mini Battery Logger's website also showed a model with the "10,2" identifier, which is different from the "MacBookPro9,2" label Apple gave to its recently updated 13-inch MacBook Pro, which does not feature a Retina display. Currently, the Retina display is only available with a 15-inch MacBook Pro identified as "MacBookPro10,1," while the legacy 15-inch model is "MacBookPro9,1.

I travel occasionally. I don't bring my Airport Express around with me though. So, yeah.

But I guess I see what you mean.

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Added on July 11, 2012, 2:57 pm

Even if they do launch a retina-specced 13" in the next 6 months, expect it to be a top-of-the-line model only, with an RM600-700 premium over the top spec MBP/MBA 13".

Speaking of which, can't decide between base MBA vs MBP 13" now *pulls hair*

The Last Word : Depends on what you want to do with it. For Light, on the Go, you need the 13" Air. The 11" is nice, but battery life is still around 5 hours only.

For multipurpose use, get the MBP 13". About the same battery life as the 13" Air, faster processor, upgradable RAM and HDD. Best all around, and not much heavier than the 13" Air. At least, when I am lugging it around.

not reli, depend on what you need the windows do
from what i know the most stable booting in windows has 3 option:

1. Bootcamp
Pros : your macbook can completely 100% become a window pc
cons : must restart and choose to boot into windows, also means u cant use OS X in the same time until u reboot again.
          Have to isolate your hdd in to windows and Mac. example: total 250gb drive, u have to choose how much for OSX and    how much for Windows, then both of them cant share the space after decided.

2. VMware fusion
Pros : can use Windows and Mac togather without restarting, can share file at OS X desktop and other drive, use around 10gb space for windows only, good for testing stuff / light software only.
Cons: will have slightly lag when loading stuff inside vm, eats lots of RAM (atleast 3.5gb), can run heavy application but will laggy, not every software from windows support vm (i heard from my colleague which use OSX too, i nvr encounter that yet)

3. Parellel desktop
Pros : somthing like vmware fusion, but this application can run at background of ur OSX, means when u double click .exe those at OS X, it will straight promt out the window base installer etc to let u directly run those thing at OS X.
Cons : I feel abit more laggy when opening and runing software in parellel then vmware fusion, so others i not reli sure..

anyway, above those is my personal experience, doesnt mean all is correct but that is my personal opinion only hehe. u may try ask other and see >.<

Correct me if I'm wrong, I was told that if we create a hard partition, say a 50GB size for Windows using Bootcamp, we can also access this partition directly from Parallels when using Mac OS X? Is this true? If this is true, then it can save a substantial disk space.