Which performs better, the Retina or the regular pro?

I am debating which Pro to purchase, if I were to choose between the Air or a Pro. So far, I am going with the air, but I would first like to know the differences between the Retina and the regular Pro. I am going to use the laptop for school work, music, movies, and gaming ( Minecraft, GTA). I would like to know which Pro will do those tasks the fastest, without crashing or lagging, and the clearest. I am planning to buy a 13' with 256 GB SSD, 8GB RAM, and a Dual-Core Intel i7 Processor.

Unless you plan on doing much video and photo editing or gaming the Air is the hands down choice for school use.
The newly released macbook Retina (entry level ones), in easy examination is a thicker macbook Air, thats a bit faster with a retina display.
I have 2 Pros (older) and the current Air. The Air is very nice for its very lightweight packing around,......
,...however now the new Retina pro and the Air are very close together,........both 802ac wifi
both have PCIe SSD
both have Mavericks and Haswell
as said, bit more speed and Retina display.
The 13" Air in I5 however has the longest battery life by far, with reports in the 13 and 14 hour range.

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My faithful Samsung has died on me (not a smartphone) and I was thinking of getting an iPhone, but not the 5 because that's out of my price range. I was thinking between the 4 and the 4s, the 4S is obviously more expensive than the 4 so I was wondering if it was worth getting the 4s, if it's not much different from the 4?
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Macbook Air or MBP Which performs better

I'm considering the 13" MBP 2.9Ghz with 8GB 700GB HD vs the 13 in Air 2.0GHz (256GB). Besides the boot time being faster on the Air vs. the MBP is there other benchmarks available to compare these two models? I saw 15 retina and air benchmarks but nothing comparing what performs better the air or 13 mbp. Thanks.

Most testing benchmarks don't adequately indicate the "real world" experience in regard to these two disparate setups. When the MBP is tasked to intensely execute a series of processor intensive tasks, such as video encoding or image manipulation, the MBP will "finish the race" much faster. The MBP has quad core, discrete graphics, and will be faster. It takes a measure of subjective "experience" testing to discern their real world differences, which will vary amongst users.
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Im sure arstechnica.com and anandtech.com will be doing straight-up comparisons really soon, as they have done on previous iterations of the Air and Pro. They both are very adept at discerning the usable differences beween both these lines.
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I would recommend Intel processors over AMD for Adobe products.
Does Hyper Threading affect the way AE / Premiere render?
I can't talk for Premiere. For AE, it's perhaps marginal compared to the number of physical cores. And could be in some cases counter-productive if it tricks AE's multiprocessing system into believing there are twice as many cores, because of the way AE assigns RAM to the rendering instances it launches for each core (when "Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously" is enabled in Preferences).
Will I notice a difference in speed from 8GB to 12/24GB for memory (for AE / Pr)?
Yes, 8 GB is actually the absolute minimum you want for a quad core system (2 GB per core).
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or GTX vs Radeon) to boost performance. I'm not much of a gamer and I
would like to concentrate more of power on production.
In AE, OpenGL previews are meant to provide a smoother/more responsive experience when interacting with the application. It won't help with render times in most cases. A medium to high end consumer level card should be fine. No need to sell the house for one of the pro level models. Keep an eye to the list of officially supported card/driver combinations.

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In session and call tansaction methods, which is better . why?

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in session and call tansaction methods, which is better . why?

see the link:
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There are 4 iphone generations. Which two are you comparing? Iphone 4 and 3gs? Iphone 4 and iphone 3g? Iphone 4 and Original iphone?
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In the below two queries which gives better performance.
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1)
select case when count(CUST_score1)+count(CUST_score2)+count(CUST_score3)=0 then -111111'
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user546757 wrote:
Hi All,
In the below two queries which gives better performance.
Requirement is I need to find if all the 3 score columns are null then I need to assign -ve value -9999 else some +ve value 2
1)
select case when count(CUST_score1)+count(CUST_score2)+count(CUST_score3)=0 then -111111'
else 11 end
from
customer
where subscriber_id=1050
and cust_system_code='1882484'
2)
select case whenCUST_score1 is null and CUST_score2 is null and CUST_score3 is null then '-9999'
else '11' end
from
customer
where subscriber_id=1050
and cust_system_code='1882484'
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Regards,
ChandaThe two statements aren't equivalent. If you know that your where condition is restricting to a single row then there is no point in doing a count as that will introduce an additional aggregate function that isn't required for a single row. If you are dealing with multiple rows from the where condition then the second query will return multiple rows whereas the first query returns 1 row, so they don't do the same thing anyway.

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