13" Air is better bang for the buck, honestly.
that all depends on how you value performance.
13" Air is better bang for the buck, honestly.
I hate this 'Pro' word. It as absolutely no meaning and it is a waste of time repeating it again and again.
FileMaker became FileMaker Pro
Final Cut became Final Cut Pro
MacBook is Mac Book Pro
Mac ias Mac Pro
What for?
Think its bad value at $1699?
It costs the equivalent of $2335 in the UK.
WOW
that all depends on how you value performance.
but in the us is it 1699 + tax?
Right, because you cannot edit video or drive a couple of displays with the Intel 4000? Let me guess, you are a "pro" gamer?
If you can update the CPU to an i7 quad core, that is all you really need.
Show me a laptop with the resolution of the 13" MBP let alone the 15" model made by any other company. I'm waiting.
Seriously, you can edit 2K video with ease on either the 13" or 15" model and the latter can display close to 3K resolution giving you a pretty good idea of what 4K video will look like.
For non-gaming, the CPU, memory bandwidth and I/O speed is more of a factor than discrete graphics.
@KPOM: Don't mind Mr. Dee. He thinks that he needs discreet graphics to post faster to facebook.
that all depends on how you value performance.
For everyone else, the 13" Air is the logical choice.
1699 for a 13" laptop without a dedicate graphics card is batpoop insane.
How so? It has the same processor as the classic 13" Pro. The 13" has never had a discrete GPU, nor has it ever had a quad-core processor. The display is nice. I agree it is a bit pricey, but it is in line with the Air when you consider the full voltage processor and higher resolution IPS display.
What's a "pro" gamer? Someone who hasn't got any other job?
You're talking about fanboys with problems in their marriage?
I suppose by now you all figured out that this constant moaning and whining gets on my nerves. Right now, a Retina display is a luxury item that you can only get from one computer maker, and it is priced as a luxury item.
Underpowered? Last time I looked, Dell doesn't sell any quad core laptops for less than the 13" Retina MBP. Please guys, come back to reality.
what good is a pretty picture if you can't move it around correctly?
intel 4000 won't cut it .
when next years haswell comes out with the intel 5000 graphics this machine will look so slow. I predict that in 15 months it will sell at a 50% discount which for apple is not good.
buying this machine will make a lot of people very sad in a few months.
why even take the weight penalty of the 13" Air?
The top-of-the-line Air has been over $1699 for quite some time now.
Seriously? The 15" MBP Retina Ad was WAY BETTER! It made me actually want to buy one. This new one is ... meh - strange how to very similar ads can be so radically different. Maybe it's because one is for a crap-speced high priced machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmnlTUE8yQI
People still play games on their computers?
I say that jokingly. Sort of. I am an avid gamer and have been so since the early 90's. We're talking Doom, Quake and Unreal Tournament. I started gaming with a mouse and keyboard and could never quite make the transition to the hand controllers that come with XBox and PS's. The problem is that hacks for computer games like Call of Duty became so easy to install and prevalent that you couldn't even find a game where someone wasn't using the wall hack or, even worse, auto aim. So I sucked it up and bought a PS3. Heck, nowadays you can even use your mouse and keyboard with your console. I do! Not to mention the great system of hooking up with your friends when they go online to play a game. I think much like optical drives, computer gaming is going the way of the dodo bird.
Yeah, which doesn't have infant 128gb ssd.
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13" Air is better bang for the buck, honestly.
1699 for a 13" laptop without a dedicate graphics card is batpoop insane.