No moving parts should make the rMBP make very reliable.
I'm only wondering about heat, and will hold off until I can read reviews by high end users.
I don't care about the optical drive (only about the $80 to get the external), and I can live without the ethernet port. My current laser printer connects through a print server to the ethernet port of my current Mac, but I always hated that cable heavy set-up and will either try USB or get a new laser printer.
Hard drive space: keep current projects on it, and when they are done, move them off to external drives. Keep just maximum quality full res jpegs for showing.
For being on the road, a rugged external with phantom power should work out (of course, it will have a toll on the battery).
Have there been any reviews on how long those non-removable batteries last?
It seems to me like the retina MacBook Pro is in a similar situation as the MacBook Air was when it first came out. It's a computer that doesn't make sense now to most but eventually will. There will be early adaptors who will fall in love with the display and form factor and don't care about the negative sides of the computer. Power to them. For lots of us, it won't make all to much sense.
But Apple is gambling on future technology. The original macbook air, up to the redesign (when it came out with the 11" and a lower price) was a niche product, Jet-Seters, businessmen and writers wanted it, not much from everyone else. In 2 to 3 years, SSD will be much more wide spread and the idea of a 1TB SSD at a reasonable price won't be ridiculous. If I could have a decent sized SSD without breaking the bank, I wouldn't have bothered with optibay. Apple is hoping retina-type displays will catch one. If the PC manufacturers start using it, the price will drop down and there will be a point where it won't be that much more expensive to get it.
If only the RAM could be changed and blade SSD start to become a standard (the glued battery kind of bugs me too) , I don't see what in the evolution of this laptop in 2 years there will be to hate.
Can anyone here give me an advice.. I have three option here..
Get the 2012 mbp high end 13" + zoomable fish eye lens around $500
Or take the highend 15" with 1440*900 reso with + fixed 8mm fish eye lens around $250 -350
Or the high end 15" with hi-res.
Or the retina mbp base model with upgrade ram 16gb .
Iam not a proff phtogrphr i do it as a hobby.. I like to editing with adobe cs stuff, editing video,music sometimes just make a music footage, and wanna try the os x experience... I have a highend gaming desktop pc and 2412m eips.. I need a portabilty to repoace my core 2 duo 14" acer..
Considerng it's portability and price the 13" is the best value and i can get a fish eye lens. But The screen reso its crap and the pixel looks big there and i doubt with ith intel hd 4000.
15" size its not an issue for me.. But considering it's same price with the retina, my friend told me "what dont u get the new retina one? Its cool , the old one will be outdate!!"
How big is different the 13" reso , normal reso 15" , hi ress 15" , and the retina display..
The last question has anyone here comfort with your 13" mbp ?? A lot aditing with photoshop or aperture is run smoothly?? What about video editing in 13" u have any issue ? Laggy or something? Thanks . I really need your feed back.