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Tech Specs:
Display: Retina display: 15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2880-by-1800 resolution at 220 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors
Supported resolutions: 2880 by 1800 pixels (Retina); scaled resolutions: 1920 by 1200, 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, and 1024 by 640 pixels
Processor: 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz) with 6MB shared L3 cache
RAM: 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memory. Configurable to 16GB.
HDD:
Size:
GFX: Intel HD Graphics 4000/NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching
Camera: 720p FaceTime HD camera
Ports:
Wireless: 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking;3 IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology
Software: OS X Lion
Includes Mail, Address Book, iCal, the Mac App Store, iTunes, Safari, Time Machine, FaceTime, Photo Booth, Mission Control, Launchpad, AirDrop, Resume, Auto Save, Versions, Quick Look, Spotlight, QuickTime, and more.
Price: $2199
Opinion: Although the macbook gets redesigned each year or two, and I am still not an owner, this may very well be the year for me to buy one as I head off to college. Apparently the display is top of the line, and the air flow is spectacular, with a new genuine cooling system. The thing that caught my eye is the HDD.. 256 GB??? i would burn through that in a few weeks if it were on my gaming rig. As of right now, that and the price point are my only issues. You get a smaller laptop sure, but you get less HDD space, but you get a stock 8gb ram, a beautiful display, and the brand new OS Mountain Lion, stock with any purchase of these new laptops. Yes you can upgrade the HDD space to 512 GB, but that costs an extra $600, but you DO get 2.6ghz with that purchase, and from that model, you can upgrade to 768 GB, probably for an extra $200 or so. Dont forget Apple warranty, so add another $300 onto your bill
Final Thoughts: If you care about HDD space, maybe you need to invest in a desktop and get multiple HDDs, because $3000 for a laptop is not in my price range, and certainly would bug me if I dropped it or stepped on it. I need a laptop for college, so I might just kiss the money in my bank goodbye, as I spend $2500 for a new laptop with 256 gb HDD space, and a 3 year protection plan. The more likely of scenario, i but the 2011 model, and get more HDD space, then upgrade it a bit.
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Display: Retina display: 15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2880-by-1800 resolution at 220 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors
Supported resolutions: 2880 by 1800 pixels (Retina); scaled resolutions: 1920 by 1200, 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, and 1024 by 640 pixels
Processor: 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz) with 6MB shared L3 cache
RAM: 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memory. Configurable to 16GB.
HDD:
Size:
GFX: Intel HD Graphics 4000/NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching
Camera: 720p FaceTime HD camera
Ports:
Wireless: 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking;3 IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology
Software: OS X Lion
Includes Mail, Address Book, iCal, the Mac App Store, iTunes, Safari, Time Machine, FaceTime, Photo Booth, Mission Control, Launchpad, AirDrop, Resume, Auto Save, Versions, Quick Look, Spotlight, QuickTime, and more.
Price: $2199
Opinion: Although the macbook gets redesigned each year or two, and I am still not an owner, this may very well be the year for me to buy one as I head off to college. Apparently the display is top of the line, and the air flow is spectacular, with a new genuine cooling system. The thing that caught my eye is the HDD.. 256 GB??? i would burn through that in a few weeks if it were on my gaming rig. As of right now, that and the price point are my only issues. You get a smaller laptop sure, but you get less HDD space, but you get a stock 8gb ram, a beautiful display, and the brand new OS Mountain Lion, stock with any purchase of these new laptops. Yes you can upgrade the HDD space to 512 GB, but that costs an extra $600, but you DO get 2.6ghz with that purchase, and from that model, you can upgrade to 768 GB, probably for an extra $200 or so. Dont forget Apple warranty, so add another $300 onto your bill
Final Thoughts: If you care about HDD space, maybe you need to invest in a desktop and get multiple HDDs, because $3000 for a laptop is not in my price range, and certainly would bug me if I dropped it or stepped on it. I need a laptop for college, so I might just kiss the money in my bank goodbye, as I spend $2500 for a new laptop with 256 gb HDD space, and a 3 year protection plan. The more likely of scenario, i but the 2011 model, and get more HDD space, then upgrade it a bit.
Reasons not to buy it: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
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So elegant and sleek, too bad it's severely overpriced.
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Generation wrote So elegant and sleek, too bad it's severely overpriced.
I agree completely, the whole reason i might not buy this is the price. I love the new specs, but it just isnt worth it
and the fact that THERE IS ONLY 256 GB OF HDD SPACE!!!!
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Skruffy wroteGeneration wrote So elegant and sleek, too bad it's severely overpriced.
I agree completely, the whole reason i might not buy this is the price. I love the new specs, but it just isnt worth it
and the fact that THERE IS ONLY 256 GB OF HDD SPACE!!!!
It's an SSD. It uses flash memory and has no moving parts and has 2-3 x the speed of a regular standard mechanical HDD. SSD's are the future. If you want extra space, buy an external 1TB drive and store everything on there.
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Generation wroteSkruffy wroteGeneration wrote So elegant and sleek, too bad it's severely overpriced.
I agree completely, the whole reason i might not buy this is the price. I love the new specs, but it just isnt worth it
and the fact that THERE IS ONLY 256 GB OF HDD SPACE!!!!
It's an SSD. It uses flash memory and has no moving parts and has 2-3 x the speed of a regular standard mechanical HDD. SSD's are the future. If you want extra space, buy an external 1TB drive and store everything on there.
ya, i suppose that could work
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$2199 for the new Macbook Pro? It looks like a nice gadget but too overpriced.
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Tom_Brady wrote $2199 for the new Macbook Pro? It looks like a nice gadget but too overpriced.
just added a link to a site that says it is almost impossible to upgrade/repair, and you will pay out the a$$ if something breaks
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Well, i just found out...
IT DOESNT HAVE A GOD DAMN CD DRIVE!!!!!!!!!
I would advise against buying it, unless you plan on torrenting games... oh right, you cant install windows on it now...
IT DOESNT HAVE A GOD DAMN CD DRIVE!!!!!!!!!
I would advise against buying it, unless you plan on torrenting games... oh right, you cant install windows on it now...
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Copied and pasted from another post of mine.
All-solid state storage, 2880 x 1800 panel (220 ppi), 8GB RAM, a GT 650m, and 7-hour battery life? Sounds like a winner to me. The design is among the best, but Apple's design flaws still plague it. I'm not going to be ridiculous and say this isn't one of the best laptops on the market right now, but it has some common issues.
1. Cooling still sucks. It's a Mac.
2. You can't upgrade anything. At all. Yet, it's apparently relatively easy to remove the bottom panel, which makes little sense to me.
3. It's overpriced. As good as it may be, the price is just stupidly high.
4. No matte display standard, or even an option. Deal-breaker for me personally, not that I'm not boycotting Apple.
Still, many arguments people are making against it are ridiculous, like gaming. This is not a gaming computer, and if you must run games, you don't have to run at at native resolution. If you run it at 1080p, then it's like having a 1080p monitor.
No, you can't get a computer this good for $600. There are more things to take into consideration than the specs sheet, like build quality, thickness, input quality, etc. This is a good computer held down by Apple's stupid design philosophies.
What gets me is that the rest of the PC laptop industry was too stupid or blind to see that this is where laptops are going. It would have been easy to do this, BUT THEY DIDN'T. I predicted this would be the next step YEARS AGO, because it's obvious. Laptops should focus on user experience, not specs, and Apple does that. You can't compare a poorly-built Toshiba to a similarly specced Macbook because of intangibles that aren't represented on paper. Asus had the right idea with the latest Zenbooks with 1080p panels, but they were the only ones and didn't take it far enough. I'm seriously disappointed in the laptop industry right now, if not angry.
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All-solid state storage, 2880 x 1800 panel (220 ppi), 8GB RAM, a GT 650m, and 7-hour battery life? Sounds like a winner to me. The design is among the best, but Apple's design flaws still plague it. I'm not going to be ridiculous and say this isn't one of the best laptops on the market right now, but it has some common issues.
1. Cooling still sucks. It's a Mac.
2. You can't upgrade anything. At all. Yet, it's apparently relatively easy to remove the bottom panel, which makes little sense to me.
3. It's overpriced. As good as it may be, the price is just stupidly high.
4. No matte display standard, or even an option. Deal-breaker for me personally, not that I'm not boycotting Apple.
Still, many arguments people are making against it are ridiculous, like gaming. This is not a gaming computer, and if you must run games, you don't have to run at at native resolution. If you run it at 1080p, then it's like having a 1080p monitor.
No, you can't get a computer this good for $600. There are more things to take into consideration than the specs sheet, like build quality, thickness, input quality, etc. This is a good computer held down by Apple's stupid design philosophies.
What gets me is that the rest of the PC laptop industry was too stupid or blind to see that this is where laptops are going. It would have been easy to do this, BUT THEY DIDN'T. I predicted this would be the next step YEARS AGO, because it's obvious. Laptops should focus on user experience, not specs, and Apple does that. You can't compare a poorly-built Toshiba to a similarly specced Macbook because of intangibles that aren't represented on paper. Asus had the right idea with the latest Zenbooks with 1080p panels, but they were the only ones and didn't take it far enough. I'm seriously disappointed in the laptop industry right now, if not angry.
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r00t_b33r wrote Copied and pasted from another topic.
All-solid state storage, 2880 x 1800 panel (220 ppi), 8GB RAM, a GT 650m, and 7-hour battery life? Sounds like a winner to me. The design is among the best, but Apple's design flaws still plague it. I'm not going to be ridiculous and say this isn't one of the best laptops on the market right now, but it has some common issues.
1. Cooling still sucks. It's a Mac.
2. You can't upgrade anything. At all. Yet, it's apparently relatively easy to remove the bottom panel, which makes little sense to me.
3. It's overpriced. As good as it may be, the price is just stupidly high.
4. No matte display standard, or even an option. Deal-breaker for me personally, not that I'm not boycotting Apple.
Still, many arguments people are making against it are ridiculous, like gaming. This is not a gaming computer, and if you must run games, you don't have to run at at native resolution. If you run it at 1080p, then it's like having a 1080p monitor.
No, you can't get a computer this good for $600. There are more things to take into consideration than the specs sheet, like build quality, thickness, input quality, etc. This is a good computer held down by Apple's stupid design philosophies.
What gets me is that the rest of the PC laptop industry was too stupid or blind to see that this is where laptops are going. It would have been easy to do this, BUT THEY DIDN'T. I predicted this would be the next step YEARS AGO, because it's obvious. Laptops should focus on user experience, not specs, and Apple does that. You can't compare a poorly-built Toshiba to a similarly specced Macbook because of intangibles that aren't represented on paper. Asus had the right idea with the latest Zenbooks with 1080p panels, but they were the only ones and didn't take it far enough. I'm seriously disappointed in the laptop industry right now, if not angry.
i think whoever posted this is right. I know what it means to have a stunning computer on a budget, i built one, and I need a laptop for college, and would buy the 2012 model, BUT, it is overpriced, and it doesnt even have a CD drive... come on, you can use laptops to watch movies on the go... i guess i could burn/download onto my external and keep them there
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