They could but I doubt they will. Too many people don't see the value proposition in a smaller SSD drive over a larger spinning disk. ITT, in fact.
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13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Starts at 128 GB Flash Storage, Mac Mini Goes Quad-Core
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They could but I doubt they will. Too many people don't see the value proposition in a smaller SSD drive over a larger spinning disk. ITT, in fact.
Great, just great.
This is looking SO disappointing for the 13" rMBP.
Sticking with Dual Core instead of going to Quad
No dedicated graphics.
Those are my two gripes, but they are major ones, and unless those specs are wrong, Apple lost a SURE purchase on my part. I was all set to buy this machine, but not when it's this underpowered.
This is looking SO disappointing for the 13" rMBP.
Sticking with Dual Core instead of going to Quad
No dedicated graphics.
Those are my two gripes, but they are major ones, and unless those specs are wrong, Apple lost a SURE purchase on my part. I was all set to buy this machine, but not when it's this underpowered.
I guess it *might* be enough - it's a smaller screen but may still be a bit much for the 4000.
I'd be more worried that it cant do the same 3 external screens that the 15" rMBP can - that's a pretty handy selling point, and I just cant see the crappy 4000 being able to do it. The 15" seems to have to switch to the discreet gpu just to run 1 external display. Maybe we'll see a newer iteration of the 4000?
Sweet. Wallet is locked and loaded for one high end CTO Mac Mini. Come to Papa. (Crossing fingers the iFixiT 2nd SSD conversion kit is still compatible).
- 128 SSD is the same price as a 500 notebook HDD.
- It's thinner and lighter because Apple REMOVED the DVD drive. Apple saved money by making it thinner.
- USB 3 is standard in 2012 and comes at ZERO additional cost to Apple. They can keep thunderbolt for all I care. It's virtually useless.
All I was saying is you get more than a SSD for $500 as your post implied. Apple products costs a lot of $, this isn't new.
Please post a 128GB with that Read/Write speeds. Then do the same for RAM. You're paying a premium to get this all built-in to a thin/light design.
I'm not defending Apple pricing but I'm not gonna cry when they don't use Dell pricing with high-quality hardware.
Who cares. Get the stock drive and rip it out yourself. It's a super easy upgrade on the mini.
I've 3VMs on my macbook as of now. 2 of them are for lecture courses at Stanford and one is a custom for Stanford Autonomous Cars for which I have been a researcher for the last so many years.
I still have more than 25GB clean on my machine. That's not to say that I don't have other machines but this is my only laptop. My office has a number of MacPro's stacked. I've two iMacs, one dell tower and two MacPros with a very old Mini stacked at my place.
If you are a pro that needs too much processing or memory, you would have a setup without one or two towers. Laptop is simply an accessory.
In any case, calling a laptop pro because it has 256 GB and dissing a laptop with 128 GB is idiotic.
Have you seen the insides of the Retina machines?
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Take out your Apple care and 256GB and drop it down to a 128GB drive.
That's how.
The 15" Retina MBP uses an SSD which is basically just a Samsung 830 SSD without the enclosure and with a proprietary connector. It retails for about $100 at this point:
http://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-2-5-I...=1351006327&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung+830+128gb
Also remember that the 13" Air has a 128GB SSD for $1199. Add 8GB RAM and it goes to $1299.
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Yeah, that got my attention to. But the bigger question I have is the graphics chip. The Mini could have 12 cores for all that matters, but if it's saddled with a built-in 512 mb graphics chip its performance will be pretty underwhelming.
I'm a working professional dj desperately in need of a new laptop...a 13" computer needs to portable for me, so a 13" is still a "pro" computer...but i won't be able to survive with a 128 gig drive for very long before I start to run out of space.
As far as weight/portability/etc. this computer is just about perfect for what I need it to do, but hoping it doesn't start at 1699 with only a 128 gig ssd. Bumping it up to 256 would then catapult the price into the 15" retina range...
As far as weight/portability/etc. this computer is just about perfect for what I need it to do, but hoping it doesn't start at 1699 with only a 128 gig ssd. Bumping it up to 256 would then catapult the price into the 15" retina range...
Google shopping tells me its not. 128 GB is almost 2 times the price as a 500 GB HDD. On an average. Don't give me random extreme values
Oh! So you are one of those who think that removing the disk drive is a childs play and requires no engineering whatsoever. And Apple should be making money because of that! Fancy, a disk drive costs about $25-$30. Apple won't give a damn about it. Re-engineering, design and manufacturing is tougher for the kind of product Apple is doing with their new 13" and 15" notebooks. You are funny.
For everything that's useless for you, don't buy the machine dude? USB 3.0 might be useless but its useful over thunderbolt for almost all people including me.
He was referring to the Mac Mini.
Even so the Retina MBP has a pretty easy to change out SSD. You just have to buy one that's made to work with the RMBP, like those that OWC sells.
I don't think apple will every get rid of the "pro" label, unless they bring out another laptop (not going to happen)
People (even more so for the sort of people who buy apple, myself included to some extent
) want to buy something they see as the best, including the label. They want to feel like their thousands of chosen currency is worth it, and the pro label is what they want.
If apple lost the pro label on the 13" MBP they would almost certainly sell substantially fewer laptops. Not huge amounts, but still, why get rid of even a few sales?
That's my opinion anyway
People (even more so for the sort of people who buy apple, myself included to some extent
) want to buy something they see as the best, including the label. They want to feel like their thousands of chosen currency is worth it, and the pro label is what they want.If apple lost the pro label on the 13" MBP they would almost certainly sell substantially fewer laptops. Not huge amounts, but still, why get rid of even a few sales?
That's my opinion anyway
Assuming the same DPI, we are most likely looking at 2560x1600 panel in the 13" rMBP. That's not much more than what the 27" Thunderbolt Display has, which for example the MacBook Air can handle just fine (even the previous gen with HD 300 graphics).
Not gonna happen, you'll have to wait till Haswell to see that.
