This surprises me. I was extremely skeptical of thee whole retina thing before I got a chance to use it. Now I can't see myself ever buying something with less pixel density.
I might be in the minority, but there is nothing I prefer about iTerm2 vs terminal.app. In fact, I think text color representation is much more accurate in terminal. And I don't need window-paning / split screening since I do all of that in Emacs anyways.
I've found Terminal to be perfectly adequate. Back in the 10.2 days I had to use X11 and an xterm since the transparency thing was murder on my GPU, but ever since Terminal with very few tweaks has been great.
Considering it's built in, it's light-years ahead of the junk that Windows calls a shell window.
There is nothing "accurate" at all about Terminal's colors. If you take a screenshot of the terminal next to your settings window, you'll find that the colors in the terminal don't match the ones in your preferences at all, particularly if you have a dark terminal background.
iTerm 2 doesn't do this. It's the "accurate" one. If you prefer your colors the way Terminal mangles them, you'll have to set them that way. :)
That's odd since I find iTerm2 much better looking in terms of color representation. Plus TrueColor support in nvim look amazing. BadWolf theme never, nowhere, looked better...
Worse thing (for me) about the retina screen is that it's optimal resolution is 1280x800 (@2x) rather than 1440x900. You can force it to scale to other resolutions, but then the "virtual" pixels no longer map nicely to the retina pixels, with blurry results.
I'm in the same boat as you. I've got an Air, and it's the perfect machine for me. I even prefer it to my more-recent 15'' pro at work -- the retina display will someday be great, but right now tons of websites still don't do retina, and the video card/apps just aren't quite up to pushing that many pixels smoothly (fucking itunes scrolls at like 1FPS on the retina, as on example).
But...you can see where Apple is coming from. Between the increasingly powerful tiny Macbook and the increasingly tiny powerful Pro, it's a small slice of use cases indeed left for the Air, and I see why they're ditching it. Still makes me sad though.
> itunes scrolls at like 1FPS on the retina, as on example
if you want to be even more frustrated by this, try scrolling by clicking and dragging the scrollbar on the side of the window. note that it's buttery smooth.
so it's almost certainly caused by JS scroll event handling, since the iTunes store on OS X is just a big webview.
It's incredible how much the 'smoothness' of user experience has regressed, on average, across the board. Seeing that kind of unnecessary jank totally drives me up the wall.
Generally, i try not to think about it too much.. because it often feels like I'm part of a tiny minority that thinks this is an absurd state of things.
Slack is a perfect example. I love Slack and use it very heavily. But it's maddening how laggy their "app" (which is just their web interface in a wrapper) often feels. Users should not be frequently experiencing keyboard lag in a chat app!
