Never been a fan of apple, but I guess I'm finally crossing over to the green garden

Gonna get the retina macbook since its specs blows windows out of the water...:okay:

Really? Aside from the high res which you will never use since everything gets scaled to normal size anyway, what else blows "windows" out of the water?

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does anyone know if gaming would be decent on this new MBP 15' with the new graphics card? Will it be able to handle high settings and or what not? Need to replace my old ass MB 08' aluminum model getting slow as fuck haha

I'm sure all 3 games that run on Mac will work well enough.
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In all honesty, it will probably do a decent job. I'd say it would easily run Diablo 3.

do most games even go up to 2800x1800 or whatever

It's not a gaming laptop. But it will run games in 1440x900 just fine, which scales perfectly to the screen's resolution.

it was still be able to handle most modern games at 1400x900 set on medium with ease.. the only thing to find out is how hot it's going to get being .75" thick.

yeah might have to buy an after market stand/fan for it to sit on a make it cooler

I picked up 2 of these to cool my laptop down:

Belkin Laptop Cooling Pad F5L001

just ordered the Retina Macbook Pro with 16GB ram and 512SSD... Total price is $23048 HKD

But shipping date is 2-3 weeks :okay:

I feel like Skinny is this guy in this thread..
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Ok, i understand that some of you do media production for a living, and some apps on mac are just better than windows. And some of you just want to help your parents fix their too-much-money problem.

But if you're not in one of those camps, you'd have to be insane or stupid to think that a mac 'blows windows out of the water'. I just bought a 15" laptop, it was $1250, faster than any mac under $2200, with a faster video card than ANY MACBOOK, with double the RAM of any MBP.

So if you like mac, that's fine. Just admit that you're paying extra for the look, or the name, not the specs.

Before I get flamed too badly, I have an MBP that i bought for iphone development, and to see what everyone was so excited about. NEVER AGAIN. The biggest mistake I've ever made for a technology purchase.

they redesigned the cooling and having "intake" on the side of the computer and "exhaust" where the screen hinge is, should be fine

There is not about the Macbook that blows a competing Windows laptop "out of the water." My "daily driver" is a mac, so I'm not a biased/hater/fan boy, just a realist...I use my Mac every day by choice and initially bought it because of the design and it was something different to play with. Yes, 6 years later, I've bought my 3rd Macbook and I'm still enjoying it but again, it's not because of any added functionality.

Today, you can a very useful and functional Windows computer for nearly half the price of the entry level Macbook. The pricing, although I continue to spend it, is ridiculous and the new Macbook Retina pricing model is the worse I've seen yet! Simply cannot justify the dollar for product value here.

You know when a really spiffy car feature comes out and you can only get it on expensive luxury cars. After a year or two you can get that same feature in a Kia. That's kinda what the retina screen is. It's gorgeous no doubt and my next laptop will have it. I'm just not spending it on a 2000+ laptop I'm going to wait till they trickle down to the 1000-1500 level. At the same time you can't really blame them for selling it with a high price since it's their crown jewel and it probably cost a lot to produce right now.

It dOesnt matter the price, even at this price which is insane for a 15" laptop people will buy it like hot cakes. Personally I think for that asking price it should be a 17" monitor.

I might pick up one of these, a year from now on craiglists once someone regrets buying it :D

And you'll still be overpaying! :troll:

I can't wait to see one of those Retina's in person. Tho I don't think I'd fork out the cash for one.

ur right, i was just reading simplex123's chart and it omitted that

Oh great, so now you can't even upgrade your RAM or whatever with the new MacBook Pros. EVERYTHING is soldered. So I guess you have to buy the most you can afford and deal with it.

I guess you gotta pay to play! Fuck their pricing, though. RAM is ~$6 per gig, on sale @ NCIX, and Apple wants $200 for an additional 8GB. :P

I was in the market for some thin, and nearly got the Vaio Z. WHen I meant blow out of the water, I meant hardware. The form factor with gpu isn't available in something aesthetic. But knowing me...I'll just bootcamp of it everyday :D...

i agree with your points but i dont see retina display resolutions on windows anytime soon...coming from someone who's never looked twice at apple products they've definitely stepped up the game in the screen department with the new ipad and now this MBP.

IMO you probably won't take advantage of such crazy resolution..but for once it seems like you aren't overpaying just for aesthetics and customer service...cause i'm sure these screens cost a shit tons to produce

Just read that the SSD is proprietary to Apple too. So no upgrading that unless you get it through Apple or some seedy eBay vendor.

The integrated ram is proprietary too, in fact it's soldered to the board :fuckthatshit: