[delsalk]

Unfortunately scaling becomes useless if you need todo any graphical related work, where you really do need 1:1 (retina) resolution.

[m_mueller]

One thing to keep in mind though is that you can comfortably read text that is quite a bit smaller on retina, so you can work at a higher application zoom level, which gives you back some space. Not sure whether the interface elements are too big for this display size, but intuitively the resolution sounds about right, it's about the same as the old (beloved) Powerbook 12'' as far as I remember.

[eropple]

Not true, in my experience. 1680x1050 mode works fine for digital painting and print setting stuff (where I'm working off InDesign's guides anyway).