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javacowboy said:

macplusplus said:

There are certainly other factors that affect the battery life on a Macbook Pro, the display is the least important factor. Retina display is driven by the built-in Intel GPU, thus compatible with thermal envelope of the CPU. Of course you can always buy one of those monster gaming laptops that use a Nvidia super-turing-ultimate-graphics card to drive a 1080p laptop display.

How do you figure?  The more pixels the more electricity needed to power them, no?

My MBP includes a Radeon card as well as the Intel one you mentioned:

Pixel count doesn’t matter. The component that draws the most power is the backlit layer, not the individual pixels laid on top of that. Enjoy your Radeon Card but the display is driven by Intel integrated GPU. There are Retina Macbooks without the discrete GPU.

javacowboy said:

StrangeDays said:

javacowboy said:

Retina displays are still a battery killer.

Er, no. 10 hours for ipad, and 18 hours video playback on iPhone 11 Pro. 

That may be true but the battery life on my late 2017 MacBook Pro was awful when I bought it and is now atrocious.

My next laptop will have HD graphics only.

There are certainly other factors that affect the battery life on a Macbook Pro, the display is the least important factor. Retina display is driven by the built-in Intel GPU, thus compatible with thermal envelope of the CPU. Of course you can always buy one of those monster gaming laptops that use a Nvidia super-turing-ultimate-graphics card to drive a 1080p laptop display.

StrangeDays said:

The never-PC brigade is too funny. Always new mental gymnastics to square the circle. 

I guess we’d have to insert the iPad into a boxy beige stand, place it on a desk, and connect a dummy cable from the wireless keyboard to the box stand, and live in the 1980s, for you to consider it a PC. 

Whacky logic, fellas. 

I'd submitted a similar feedback to Apple when I'd met the iPad (2) the first time. I said that it was too heavy, and being heavy it would require a desk, and a tablet that requires a desk would not merit the classification as a tablet. Because people would try to reinvent the desktop computer around it attaching a mouse, a keyboard and a monitor...

Fortunately Apple has made the lightness and thinness fundamental characteristics of the iPad allowing it to acquire its true personality within time. In that regard we can't ignore the contribution of Eddie Cue who insisted to Steve Jobs about the release of a mini iPad, which stands out with its lightness.

Meanwhile we can't deny the fact that some presentations of the iPad by Apple Marketing are totally wrong, showing the iPad always on a desk, always with a keyboard, always in landscape, as if it is trying to compete with MS Surface. In this case I cannot blame people who imagine a mouse attached to that posture. If there is an error, the error is not in people's imagination, but rather in Apple's presentation of the iPad.

I think we should be more vocal to Apple, like "Hey Marketing, you are holding it wrong !"

ITGUYINSD said:

sflocal said:

ralphie said:

I can't wait for the asshats to come here that think the iPad is a personal computer.

Your ignorance shows again.

Who are you to say an iPad isn't?  It may not do what you want it to do, but it certainly does the job for many others.  Are you one of "those people" that think and iPad is not a computer because it doesn't have user-accessible file-system?

Please... tell us so, simply to confirm the narrative about you.

I think an iPad is not a replacement for a computer because my finger does not work well for a pointer.  A mouse does the trick (it has for what, 50 years), yet the iPad does not support a mouse in a normal manner (not counting the new accessibility function). 

Give the iPad mouse / trackpad functionality then we can talk replacement.  Maybe.

This is a computer without pointer, so what?

Great news ! Now must find some spare 75 GB somewhere...

"Game studios don't develop for Mac..." Hello?