MacBook Pro 15" Retina Scaled Display

I just received a brand new MacBook Pro 15" with a retina display. I've never had an Apple laptop with a retina display, so I don't know too much about it. I don't like the default resolution used (too big!) for the retina display. However, when I go for "more space" it lets me know that scaled resolutions may affect performance. I am wondering if there is any actual downside to using the 1920x1200 scaled resolution on the MacBook Pro 15" w/retina display (I have the one with the 2.6GHz CPU, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and the discrete graphics card).

Did you ever receive an answer to this, or have you enabled scaling and noticed any performance impact? I too am a new 15" MBP owner (first Mac ever) and was immediately disappointed with the display the first time I turned it on. Resolution is definitely too low for this size screen.

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******A true apple fan********

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