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13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Pricing to Start at Roughly $1699

nuckinfutz said:
I'm guessing the 650m is roughly $70 along with 512MB of frame buffer.
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yeah, all these prices are retail, god only know how much discount APPLE gets...

When Apple switched to Intel, they had higher end CPUs in the laptops, but nowadays you see the lowest i5 available.

I paid $550 the same speced toshiba as 13" MBP ($1200) except the display quality. Is the display is worth $500? I will pay more $200 not more than that.

Apple needs to readjust/reprice their mac book line up.
 
y was my kardashian comment deleted? :eek: censorship tzzzt this aint no china on here

anyway, for 300€ less id take it
 
I'm sorry but Toshiba computers are crap....even the good ones. They only last a year and you still spent a 1200+ bucks on it.
 
lord patton said:
I agree, but if you do you don't reach the conclusion of $1699. As some (way too few, actually) have pointed out, the appropriate comparison is the 15" rMBP compared to a *similarly spec'd* 15" cMBP. Essentially:

15" cMBP, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD = $2,399
15" rMBP, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD = $2,199
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That is almost entirely driven by Apple's "license to print money" mark-up on non standard SSD for the cMBP. You don't have to pay that much. That's just handing money to add to Apple's $100B pile.

Apple using that extraordinary high mark up to both push more folks to the rMBP and to suck even larger profit margins out of those who don't have a choice (or choose to bury their head in the sand).

A $1699 price probably will be set up with the same huge margin added to larger SSDs in the cMBP models.

If you go to the Apple store the 256GB SSD option for the MBP 13" is $500. $1199 + $500 = $1699. If the rMBP 13" has a 256GB SSD folks will say "oooh look a bargin. retina display for free in a 256GB 13" MBP". Want to look thin .... stand next to a fat lady at the carnival sideshow. Apple's optional SSD prices are fun house mirrors.

Apple's 8GB DIMMs are probably going to be in the same "fun house mirror" category.
 
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No, joke, I got my own money. And I will get it. I think. Simply because it's the newest and best and I have to settle with something for the next two or three years. And because I, well, have the money to do so.
 
What's crazy is if this actually comes in at $1499, people will be so relieved that it's not $1699 that they'll be so happy to buy.
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It won't come to $1499. If there's one thing you can bank on it's that.

Anyways, being pissed over a retina macbook costing over $1700 would be like being angry over an 55" OLED TV costing $8000. For now, it's clearly geared to people who have more disposable income than most and are willing to pay up. I say good for them and hope I'm in position to do the same in a few years.
 
Ouch!

Ouch! My brain hurts from so much stupid in one post & comment thread.

a) It's a rumor (hence the site name) and it's not even this site's rumor, it's from 9to5 Mac. You can't complain about the price until Apple really sets the price.
b) The graphic is the current specs and prices, so stop complaining that it doesn't have SSD.
c) The current 15" rMBP is not $400 more than the non-retina version. If you add 8Gb RAM and 256Gb SSD to the $1799 non-retina model it ends up being $200 MORE than the rMBP and it still only has half the graphics RAM.

That was just about as far as I could get in the first couple of pages. Please, let's engage our brains people - feature writers and commenters alike.
 
Way too expensive. Anyone who buys a 13" laptop for $1699 needs to give their head a shake. What an absolute waste of money.
 
JSalig said:
It won't come to $1499. If there's one thing you can bank on it's that.

Anyways, being pissed over a retina macbook costing over $1700 would be like being angry over an 55" OLED TV costing $8000. For now, it's clearly geared to people who have more disposable income than most and are willing to pay up. I say good for them and hope I'm in position to do the same in a few years.
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Living in Europe you currently can't really do much with your spare money anyway. Leave it on your bank and inflation will eat it away and god knows what it's worth within a few years.

And there's only few things you spend as much time with as your computer. I sit on it like 10-14 hours a day. I look at it more often than I look at my girlfriend.
 
bwhli said:
Where do you go to school? I see them all around campus. Looking around now, I see three of them within 20 feet of me.
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i barely see any mba on my campus either but im a computer science student and all those nerds with their bulky alienware hate apple out of principal anyway
 
playsontheleft said:
That's a lot more than I expected honestly. I imagined that Apple would price it in such a way that it could be in competition with the currently developing 'Ultrabook' market which PC manufacturers started pushing hard around the same time that the rMBP was released - not have a price which sits it far above that market. Apple could have just lost a lot of potential Ultrabook sales to PC manufacturers.
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They already have an ultrabook competitor - the Air, and it's dirt cheap.

Retina notebooks are a premium product right now. That's why there are no Windows retina books. No one would buy a Windows laptop at that price.
 
deconstruct60 said:
That is almost entirely driven by Apple's "license to print money" mark-up on non standard SSD for the cMBP…
If you go to the Apple store the 256GB SSD option for the MBP 13" is $500. $1199 + $500 = $1699. If the rMBP 13" has a 256GB SSD folks will say "oooh look a bargin. retina display for free in a 256GB 13" MBP".
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You're missing the point. It doesn't matter whether the build-to-order $500 markup for the 256 SSD on the MBP is reasonable, expensive, or insane.

The 256 SSD adds $500 to the 15" cMBP, taking it from $1800 to $2300. Going to 8 GB of RAM takes the price to $2400. *But the 15" rMBP with those specs doesn't cost $2400!!*

Which means that going 256 SSD 8 GB RAM on the 13" rMBP wouldn't command command a $600 markup, either, not without addition features like a dGPU and/or quad-core processor.
 
Lynn Belvedere said:
Way too expensive. Anyone who buys a 13" laptop for $1699 needs to give their head a shake. What an absolute waste of money.
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They tried a $1699 12" laptop and it sold pretty well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4

Back then PowerBook was the high-end while iBook was the low end ($1099).
Just like MacBook Pro vs MacBook Air now.

After that all their <15" laptops were only part of the low end line (MacBook), until now. Remember that a MBA used to cost more than a MBP until recently.
 
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waloshin said:
Too much.
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that is too damn high... so i will pass on this.... 1200 is the sweet spot for the 13 inched that makes it so damn perfect.... the newste 13 incher thats out now is a beast and can run 2 27 inch cinema displays perfectly over thunderbolt:cool::cool:
 
The better comparison would be to the BTO 13" Air models. A Core i7 Air with 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM is $1699. So $1699 for the 13" rMPB sounds about right.
 
iChrist said:
Yes it is.

To have dedicated graphics card on little baby 13" screen makes no sense. 13" Macbook is not for pros. And thus, it is priced great for the general public.

Thanks.

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um the 13 inch mac book pro is for pros who want a small machine that can still get it all done.. the mac book air is for the casual user..
 
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