New Retina Macbook Pros

[phongn]

I'll believe it when I see it. There just aren't as many low hanging fruit with video encoding as there used to be and I'm not convinced we will see a true 2x improvement in compression at the same quality levels.

No, the low-hanging fruit is leaving us, but H.264 was standardized in 2003 - the designers of H.264 have much more compute power at their disposal (even on ASICs). There's plenty learned since then (and the Wikipedia page on it claims that the 50% bitrate reduction has been achieved in many cases at the cost of seriously high computation time.)

[Tolya]

I have a question: do you notice any hardware speed related problem? Someone told me that Retina MacBook Pro's, when running a couple of programs and several browser windows can run awfully slow.