Hey Folks,
This is not for everyone, so for those it's not for, just skip on by - no harm no foul.
But for folk that are interested, a month ago I almost drove down to my local Apple Store to pick up a rMBP. What stopped me was the fact there was even a hint of a panel lottery between Samsung and LG. If I'm going to pay this much money for something that has a 50/50 shot of coming with a defect, that is just silly and not acceptable by any means.
It's really odd that Apple can just sell these with defects (obviously not all of them, or maybe they are and people just don't know or just deal with it, because it's Apple).
For those of you on the fence, just wait, do not by a first generation Apple product like this. I was in the need of a new laptop, my main machine is a PC but I've ran into the need to have OSX on a frequent basis. So instead of the rMBP I found an awesome late 2011 17" MBP. I'm using it as my main machine now because it's Sandy Bridge processor is way faster then my main PC i7-930.
I say wait on the rMBP because of the screen issues (IR is totally unacceptable) and Intel's Haswell architecture is coming out next year and it's performance increase will be quite large, since it will be a tock and not a tick in performance, google those terms for more info.
I upgraded my 17" I got off Craigslist and put an SSD in and 16 gigs of ram. The 15" rMBP is marginally faster, also the 650m graphics card in the rMBP is nice, but I don't play games on the laptop - I leave that to the PC with the 30" monitor and a 680gtx.
So wait, get off the fence, don't buy. Get a late 2011 model, you won't notice hardly any differences except you won't have retina ... big deal IMO.
This comes from a person is not an Apple lover/fanboy or a hater, I generally dislike Apple more then like them, FYI
This is not for everyone, so for those it's not for, just skip on by - no harm no foul.
But for folk that are interested, a month ago I almost drove down to my local Apple Store to pick up a rMBP. What stopped me was the fact there was even a hint of a panel lottery between Samsung and LG. If I'm going to pay this much money for something that has a 50/50 shot of coming with a defect, that is just silly and not acceptable by any means.
It's really odd that Apple can just sell these with defects (obviously not all of them, or maybe they are and people just don't know or just deal with it, because it's Apple).
For those of you on the fence, just wait, do not by a first generation Apple product like this. I was in the need of a new laptop, my main machine is a PC but I've ran into the need to have OSX on a frequent basis. So instead of the rMBP I found an awesome late 2011 17" MBP. I'm using it as my main machine now because it's Sandy Bridge processor is way faster then my main PC i7-930.
I say wait on the rMBP because of the screen issues (IR is totally unacceptable) and Intel's Haswell architecture is coming out next year and it's performance increase will be quite large, since it will be a tock and not a tick in performance, google those terms for more info.
I upgraded my 17" I got off Craigslist and put an SSD in and 16 gigs of ram. The 15" rMBP is marginally faster, also the 650m graphics card in the rMBP is nice, but I don't play games on the laptop - I leave that to the PC with the 30" monitor and a 680gtx.
So wait, get off the fence, don't buy. Get a late 2011 model, you won't notice hardly any differences except you won't have retina ... big deal IMO.
This comes from a person is not an Apple lover/fanboy or a hater, I generally dislike Apple more then like them, FYI