When will Lightroom 4 get an update for the new Macbook Pro with Retina Display?

I had been meaning to get back to this post and update it. I received my MBP w/ Retina not long after my first post, and I didn't see any issues. In fact, I forgot there were supposed to be issues. Everything just seemed normal. It seems to have been a non-issue. Or else the Apple updates that had come out along the way fixed it.

If you get a MBP w/ Retina, get the additional ram and nand memory upgrades. I got the 750GB "drive" and 16GB ram. It's really sweet. Everything flies. Before things like Lightroom, Parallels and other heavy apps would bring my 13" MBP with 4GB of RAM to it's knees. Now I have everything running simultaneously and don't even think "do I need to shut something else down?" before I open one of the heavy apps.

Greg

Andrew Rodney wrote: goodeyecss wrote: If you tweak OS X to run at its native 2880x1800 resolution, which means no artificial scaling and all interface elements become tiny, THEN Lightroom and the photos look awesome. It's the only workaround right now until adobe updates the software. I've been using this mode for all my weddings, family shoots and commercial work for the past month and it's great. The interface might be too small for some people but any die hard LR people that use the keyboard more than the mouse will probably like it. OK, that paragraph provided more information about the issues than anything I’ve read so far. Thanks. Any comments about Photoshop?

From what I have read the 2880x1900 screen appears to be 1440x900 to an unmodified application.  When something is drawn to the screen the system uses 4 pixels for every 1 in the source.  In order to make the best use of the high resolution display the application must be modified to display images at native resolution while causing (I don't know how) text elements, etc, to be drawn larger.  If I set my MacBook Pro "retina" to 2880x1800, then, as others have said, the Lightroom screen elements a very small.

I have also read the Adobe demonstrated a version of Photoshop running at native resolution on the 2880x900 screen.  Alas, I cannot find the source

I took delivery of my RMBP last week on Thursday and ingested my first shoot Saturday. I can report that LR previews are significantly compromised at the moment (sorry no time to produce screenshots, others will shortly I'm sure), so much so that critical image selection is almost impossible. For comparison I purchased and installed the latest version of Aperture and the difference is enormous. Aperture shows the full potential of the new display. I can't fault Adobe for this issue, Apple's pre-launch secrecy would seem to be the culprit. I only hope Adobe produces updates for LR and Photoshop quickly to give image previews parity with Aperture. As someone who has deliberately stuck with LR3.6  pending other performance improvements in LR4, I'd say the chances of the "fix" being back ported to LR3.6 are probably slim to none. Pity.

Commentary. This is so typical for technology today, one step forward, at least one step backward. I needed to replace a four-year-old MBP and with a four-week assignment in France upcoming I pulled the trigger on the RMBP. Pluses. Thinner and lighter - any reduction is good for air travel, 16GB RAM (the old machine had 6GB), SSD drive, immediate USB 3 throughput improvement while portable Thunderbolt solutions (card readers and non-raid drive solutions) still mature AND an awesome screen. Unfortunately all negated, or at least temporarily hamstrung by the preview rendering issue. Bottom line I have a couple of days to get comfortable with Aperture for editing on the road. Hopefully by the time I'm back in August and the real editing begins there will be a patch. Then, like it or not I'll have to deal with the worklfow throughput challenges of LR4 and 25,000 images.

We really are all guinea pigs these days, nothing is fully baked anymore. We pay our money and then start our second jobs as beta testers and QA engineers.