Tough choice but I'd honestly stick with my current setup. I don't need a retina screen since I think my hi res is enough. The amount of retina ready applications don't impress me either. I will also need a optical drive for school but that isn't a huge factor. The iPad is a toy, but a very useful one. Ebooks are cheaper than textbooks, and once you start taking your iPad to the bathroom with you, it's hard to imagine not having one.
If you do any video or photo editing maybe the retina display will be worth it.
It always makes me laugh when people hate on the lack of upgradability on the new MBP. Aside from throwing an SSD in straight away, and upping the RAM, which are both things you do initially btw, its a non-issue for the majority of users.
Fair enough if you still use crappy mechanical drives (pointless given how dirt cheap SSDs are now), but in reality chances are you will never have to open up your MacBook after the initial upgrade.
My 7 year old iBook G4 is testament to that.
the computer initially cost me 1699 with education discount. with canadian taxes that brings it up to 1919.87 (god dam 13% tax! lol).
stock specs: 2.0ghz i7 Quad Core, 4gb ram, 256mb amd radeon graphics card and 500gb hard drive.
i had an issue with the macbook and apple replaced the ENTIRE computer for a brand new one and offered if i wanted to upgrade anything. so i upgraded the Anti glare screen for 100 bucks, no tax or anything.
the other upgrade I made down the road was changing the stock 500gb hard drive to an 120 GB SSD, intel 520 series, that was 199.99 plus taxes so 223.
The speck see thru clear was 49.95 plus tax so 56.44
the moshi palmguard was 30 bucks from moshi...i guess my as well work out the math now haha
1919.87
100
223
56.44
30_______
Total spent on macbook - $2329.31
for the retina, id be sellling my macbook for atleast 1500 and paying 560 extra for the retina. with that choice, would u say worth it?
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Are you talking about OP's specific situation, or are you saying that the rMBP is a desktop replacement?
i notcied...u ahve the top of the line of every apple product lol
While your budget may not allow a rMBP and an iPad3 now, you could always buy the rMBP now, and then wait a bit before buying the iPad3. I use a laptop and and iPad constantly, though, so for me I wouldn't consider not having an iPad.
i could sell my macbook pro for 1500 and spend the extra 560 cash on a retina.
but in total i spent around 2300 on te macobok,(upgrades, accesories)
wort the upgrade with that choice to retina?
