Advances in battery technology mean that the life is much longer - the one in your MBP (and my early '08 one) have a life of around 300 charge/discharge cycles whereas the built-in ones in the current (2011) MBPs are 1000 cycles
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2012 Macbook Pro Redesign
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Advances in battery technology mean that the life is much longer - the one in your MBP (and my early '08 one) have a life of around 300 charge/discharge cycles whereas the built-in ones in the current (2011) MBPs are 1000 cycles
im still trying to figure out for sure what SATA connections are being used for the hard drive and optical drive bay in the new non-retina macbook pros. so i chatted online and called apple. they cant give me "the specifics on those specifics."
any teardowns or people who bought them yet? i mean its seriously very easy to look in the settings and find this out. any body going to the store can find out.
i could but i live far from a store.
any teardowns or people who bought them yet? i mean its seriously very easy to look in the settings and find this out. any body going to the store can find out.
i could but i live far from a store.
It's over.
Oh brother.
Yeah my 2011 15 MBP with 16gb of Ram and SSD suddenly blew up and grew three inches thicker via a magical spell conjured up by Apple wizards! It is suddenly use less!
Good advice!
The "Classic" MBP is being phased out. The Air price drop is to blunt the news of the Retinas price and continue the $1,200 price point because the coming 13" Retina is probably going to start at $1,499 and even that might be too optimistic.
The price of the old design is a farce. Apple doesn't want you to buy it, but hey, if you are that determined to put that much into Apple's profit column they are not going to stop you.
yeah, thats nice and all, but it doesn't answer my question. 6gb/s drives are backwards compatible with sata2. so this again, does not answer my question.
and i always have had 2 drives in all my macbook pros i have owned.
Can anyone tell me how flush an SD card sits in the slot of the MBPr? (Pic would be super awesome.) I'm curious as to how well an SD card would work as additional storage.
It is the same as the non retina model
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i always use a external San disk 7 card drive just in case the SD card gets stuck in my iMac and macbook much safer that way and easier to pull out.
The price of the NEW machine is a farce... Sorta. It's a very high end machine but it is also clearly bleeding edge and as solid media prices drop and apple understands better. This is going to look like a very expensive crossover in a couple years.
I understand that Apple had to make a few trade-offs in order to get the size/slimness of the machines down, but it really is disappointing that the RAM, and the hard drive at the moment are both non-user serviceable. Some of the macs I have had have been able to last years due to the ability to upgrade the internal components, and I feel that this may hurt the long-term value of these new machines.
The Retina should be priced at $1,799.
The old models should have been slashed $400.
There's no competition. No Windows laptop has a touchpad that works. It's incomprehensible.
You said it. I've just been given a top of the line Lenovo Windows laptop at work. The trackpad is laughably useless.
yeah a couple months ago i bought my parents 2 new dell xps laptops the 15" and 14z or something. everybody compared them to MacBooks. i laughed my butt off when i got them in the mail. i then returned them because i was disgusted by every single aspect of them. one of them was even bent, and rocked back and forth when i typed on it, the other had a screen issue. i then waited for this new apple release once i talked them into a mac. now i don't know what the hell to get them. I'm thinking 13" air for my dad, and a 15" non-retina for my mom...
i just talked them into getting their first mac. the last thing i want is my mom to think they are crappy computers because i got her the new retina macbook and everything looks blurry online.......she really would think its crap. and theres no explaining anything to them there old people.....
The really sad thing is that the trackpad on my Lenovo is the best in class among PC laptops.
Why is this so difficult? Why are MacBooks the only laptops with useable trackpads?
Unfortunately for every other company Apple probably hold multiple patents on their trackpad design that means no one else can copy it...
"Apple is now using 6Gbps SSD controllers from both Toshiba and Samsung, allowing it to claim support for up to 500MB/s sequential read speed."
Aka SATA III
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6005/apples-new-ssd-its-fast
This is an interesting idea. I've noticed Apple suing Samsung over their phones and tablets. I recently compared a 7" Samsung Galaxy Tab2 to the new iPad in a Worst Buy. I could see a difference in the Retina screen vs the Galaxy, but I did not find the difference to be remarkable in a "Wow!" manner. I also noticed that the iPad was a bit more responsive in Safari for browsing than the Samsung with its stock browser, but it was not a huge difference.
The Samsung has abilities the iPad does not like a built in IR blaster giving it remote function and an app called Peel turns it into a kind of Harmony remote for the TV and other A/V gadgets. The iPad needs hardware to use Peel which is another $100. I hate my FIOS remote as much as my previous Comcast remote, in fact they look almost identical. Neither has a keyboard that is backlit, instead it's the optional ($) DVR keys that light up. And even worse is the lag in pressing the buttons and waiting for the response. Turns out it's not the box on the TV that is responsible for the delayed response, it's the remote, a problem now solved with the Galaxy Tab2 and Peel app.
The Galaxy also can be used offline as a navigation device in your car. The Galaxy Tab2 is $249. I bought the Galaxy Tab2 and I'm using it daily and liking it more and more.
The most expensive laptop in this Worst Buy store was $799. They had three rows of laptops with one row selling under $400. They were all useless junk with completely unusable washed out screens to go along with their defective touchpads.
Is Apple going to be able to shut down tablet competitors so a wonderfully useful and just as affordable device like this Galaxy Tab can't be sold? That's not free market competition, that's a mafia racket.
Apple is said to operate at profit margins that exceed 40%.
$2,199
x .40
------
$879+
$900 in profit for every retina laptop sold.
I have to say whilst for phones I far prefer Android than iOS, I've yet to use an android tablet that isn't a piece of junk - including the samsungs.
I don't think Apple need to worry about competition in the tablet market.
Phones - yes.
I don't think Apple need to worry about competition in the tablet market.
Phones - yes.
That's some contradiction and ******** in the same sentence. For the most part all tablets are scaled up larger versions of their phone counterparts.