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

nfl46 said:
Woah at the price. I'll wait a couple of years until the price drops to at least $1,399. That would have been a better price for it.

For $1,699, you may as well get a non-retina 15" Pro.
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Yes and move from what is likely going to be a 3.5lb notebook to a 5.6lb.
 
macfacts said:
Apple has never had cheap products, why are there so many posts bitching about price?
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The pre-Air MacBook was a steal for the quality you got: $1000 for a rock solid laptop. Sure, lots of cheapy laptops from Dell and HP cost less, but once you started looking at the higher reliability models, then the MacBook was your best bet.

The 11" Air is still a deal compared to so-called "ultra-books."

In fact, overall I'd say that Mac notebooks have been great value for the price for the last 6 years. Remember when back in the 1990s you were looking at $2000 for the base model for almost any Mac notebook? That said, the high price tags for the 2012 retina models are clearly a big jump over what Apple has been selling. It's a rewind to the old days. But they're amazing machines, mind you. I love my Retina Pro, and I'll keep it for at least 5 years or until it breaks.
 
gnasher729 said:
PS. My MacBook is now 6 1/2 years old and still running just fine. Used every day for 6 1/2 years. So if you don't take purchase price, but cost per year, this was a really, really cheap little computer.
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My 5 year old MacBook agrees with you. :apple:
 
all we want is a mba11 with :

i7 @ +3Ghz
16Gb RAM
Retina
Nvidia chip
Batter 5hrs
HDD 512Gb
Airplay iPad as second monitor (apple setup, not third party)


Is it too much to ask?
 

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macfacts said:
Apple has never had cheap products, why are there so many posts bitching about price?
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They have never been cheap, but they were once reasonable. Now they are just screwing the customer. But then, if people weren't stupid enough to pay it, they would have to lower prices.

Mr. Dee said:
On November 6th 2012, he will be your President for the next 4 years, so get use to it.

I believe when you have enough cash to bail out the US government at one, you can at least drop the prices on some of your stuff, its not like its gonna let them go broke anytime soon. Unless the Steve Jobs ideas have ran out so they need to make as much as they can off what they currently have.
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Are you serious? Apple have a value of $700bn, unless they have another $16tn somewhere under Tim's desk.
 
... aaaaaannnd this is why I'll no longer be buying Macs. Seriously, the "Apple Tax" is getting out of control. With their much, much larger displays, I think that the prices on the rumored retina iMacs are gonna be pretty shocking. Apple needs to seriously up its game spec-wise if they are going to continue charging this much mulah.
 
At that price, my guess for specs:

Base model ($1699):

2.6GHz dual-core Core i5 (3320M)
8 GB RAM
256 GB flash storage
Intel HD 4000

Second model ($2199)

2.9 GHz dual-core Core i7 (3520M)
8 GB RAM
512 GB flash storage
Intel HD 4000

There's a chance that the base model will get the dual-core i7 and the second model will get a quad-core i7 (3610QM), but I think dual-core in both is more likely. I don't think discrete graphics are likely at all.

Yes, $2199 is insane for a laptop with integrated graphics. But notice that it's the same price as the MBA if you configure it with 512 GB flash, 8 GB RAM and an i7. The slightly more powerful CPU, Retina display, dual Thunderbolt and HDMI are just bonuses.

I expect prices of all Retina models to go down next year when the cMBPs are phased out anyway.
 
Hopefully it carries the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M along with the retina display to help justify the higher price bump, if it doesn't and if I was paying over €2000 for a 13 model, I think I'd just spend the little extra and get the 15".
 
G4DP said:
They have never been cheap, but they were once reasonable. Now they are just screwing the customer. But then, if people weren't stupid enough to pay it, they would have to lower prices.



Are you serious? Apple have a value of $700bn, unless they have another $16tn somewhere under Tim's desk.
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This is a HIGH END computer. This isnt for normal consumers. Just like the high-end upgrade options for the regular Macbook Pro that most people ignore because they are too expensive. It really isnt that much money for a high end laptop. Laptops were pretty regularly in this price range 5 years ago and they didnt have this much engineering going into the. Im sure, this computer is going to be pretty awesome (graphics are a question though).
 
I doubt the 1500 price tag would be solely from the retina, maybe an SSD option or slight spec bump included as well?
 
What we're seeing with the retina display phenomenon is identical to the solid state phenomenon:

Solid state drives get their start in mobile devices, has no effect on device's retail cost.

Solid state drives are then implemented into computers (MacBook air), and sharply raise the product's retail cost.

This is what is happening with the retina display. As it is first implemented into computers, the price will be high. But just like the SSDs, the price will drop significantly over the coming years and eventually become the standard for all computers.
 
Too disappointed, at this price, it makes educational pricing on 15 inch rMBP a bargin, lol:
 
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