Should you buy the new MBP with Retina display?
Ivan | Mon, 2012-06-11 20:23
Apple just announced the MacBook Pro with a retina display. The 15" model features the retina display at a stunning 2880 by 1800 pixels, which is sharper than a printed page. It also comes with SSD and many other speed improvement making it extremely fast.
It's by no doubt an amazing machine. But at $2,200 starting price the question arises whether it's worth buying it. In my opinion if you have the cash, work on your computer all day and you're ok with a 15" screen size you definitely should buy it.
Look at it this way. Your computer is your primary tool for your work. If you're willing to spend many thousands of dollars on a car that you use an hour or so a day, you should certainly shell out 2K for a tool that you use at least 8 hours or more daily.
A better computer will make you more efficient and will allow you to finish the same mechanical tasks faster thus allowing you to spend more time thinking about work of relaxing away from the screen. Investing in a better tool for your craft is always a good investment.
If you get one extra middle-size job in the next year just because you delivered a job a bit better or faster than you would've with your old equipment you already made all the cost back.
What do you think?
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Pretty machines but don't need thunderbolt or USB3 gadgets yet. Diablo3, OSX runs fine here. No update needed. xD Just want a 1TB HD on my optibay for a while. Can wait a bit more for Retina Display because I read magazines at New iPad, 17's 1920x1200 resolution on mbp is not bad and maybe will survive as classic after been retired today from Apple Store. =]
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/compare/notebooks
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Link to watch 2012 June WWDC streaming:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/126pihbedvcoihbefvbhjkbvsefbg/event/index.html
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Thanks. Somehow these keynotes without Jobs are not that much fun. :)
Yeah, unfortunately but this is the hurt when founders passes away.
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Watched it - quite impressive.
But agree with Ivan - Jobs was the better showman.
$2,200 is a lot? That's what I paid for my current MPB and feel like it was a great deal. Paid $3,300 for my G3 tower in 1997(?) Still works - used it today. That's the main thing - does it last long and do we get our money out of them? Nothing I've ever bought from Apple has failed in that regard - so I would feel comfortable paying $2,200 again.
Good point.
and we paid two of yours MBP for one here in my country xD
60% of performance boost isn't a value. we need +200% to compensate.
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Oh hell, I go back far enough that I remember paying nearly $2,000 for 2 MB of RAM. Yeah, I said TWO.
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Apple is improving in every way awesomely. But they have a bigger than the biggest failure: prices. Come on! You can get better in that also!
These new 2.6GHz 512GB 15" MBP costs US$ 6.145 here in Brazil xD
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I was forward to buy in next few weeks a brand new Powerbook 17"... And then the Retina Display hit the street. Now Apple just made it up to 15"... It seems that everytime I want or afford a new piece of the fruit... they keep changing the rules! I can always buy a left over 17" computer from Apple but it wouldn't be the same, now that they offering a better display...
there're PROs and CONs for Retina Displays for now.
your images will be ashtonishing
web images will be pixelated if it's not prepared for retina displays
look this and lot of other articles about: http://blog.macsales.com/14111-15-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-lessens-web-experience
I really can wait +1 year and buy a better hardware set, for example, 1TB SSD could be standard.
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Ditto.