[mosselman]

Yesterday I ran into this gem: https://github.com/unixpickle/FreeRez

It allows you to set the resolution to the 'true' resolution of your retina screen. This way you have more screen, but it also fixes the performance issues when playing video, virtualbox virtualisation, etc. Truly recommend.

[grandalf]

Does that mean it's not "retina" resolution anymore for things like fonts, etc?

[mosselman]

It does mean that somewhat, but fonts still look fine. I find the huge load of extra screen space very handy when programming on 'just' my laptop screen.

[grandalf]

Does it behave differently from just scaling the display in preferences? On Yosemite I can scale mine so that everything is too small, and several levels in between that and the default resolution. It would surprise me if Apple didn't leverage native resolution where possible with this scaling.