Ask HN: Does Anybody Run Windows/Visual Studio on their Macbook Pro Retina?

When you're first running the installer, the dialogs/interface elements are tiny because of the retina resolution. However, once the full operating system boots up, text and interface automatically scale and look great. That's assuming you're running at the native display resolution. If you play games or whatever at non-native res, you do get some fuzziness from interpolation. Also, some applications appear to have issues with high-resolution and look pixelated.

Also, I've only been using Windows on my 15" retina macbook for a little while. There may very well be issues I haven't run into yet that could come up in the future.

I do need to point out that I had been using VMWare Fusion for Windows and everything was a bit "fuzzy" like you describe. But once I switched to using Parallels everything (especially text) was incredibly sharper.

I can't really give any recommendation for using Bootcamp. The last time I tried it the touch pad driver was horrible compared to using a vm within OSX. If that has improved since 2011(I think) someone let me know.

One downside is that it seems unable to take advantage of the high resolution mode (2680x1440?) of my external monitor so I have to run it at something like 1280x1024.

One hiccup I did have was with Resharper. I had to update to v8.1 because v7 had serious scaling issues (the indicator at the bottom right was about 300x300px).

Otherwise, it's been fantastic to use.

It can be a little laggy if you have a lot of other things open on the Mac side, like Chrome.