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2015 rMB Owner Here - Regretting My Purchase... Advice?
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Not only do specific benchmarks fail to paint the entire picture, saying "CPU benchmark" is quite ignorant. What CPU benchmark?
There are specifically MacBook fanboys now? How many sub-divisions of the typical Apple fanboy are there? Why are some people so offended by the rMB? You can dislike something and not have to be so smug. If anyone is a fanboy it's the guy comparing "CPU benchmarks" of common Apple products and posting about it under an irrelevant topic while evidently self documenting what bothers the user of a particular computer.
Just asking you to provide anything to support what you're saying, and pointing the finger while doing so. I don't own a rMB, so my butt has no reason to hurt truthfully.
Honestly, the performance is better when I have huge number of tabs open etc, and maybe the video processing is a bit faster, but that might just be the 8gb RAM versus the 4gb that my Air had. My Air was 2011 and it still was a great machine.
Ok. I'm asking in all serious because I'll be honest, I don't believe anyone ever said this. Care to link? People might say "it feels fine I have no issues with speed", but to say it's just as fast as a MacBook Pro...come on. Not even an idiot would say that
Search. 2 people stated that it was just as fast as their last computer, which was a 2014 rMBP.
Well they say the performance is about that of a 2011 Macbook Air, which I assume they meant evenly matched ram-wise... so that'd probably be a very accurate experience you're having. I'd say that's what I feel like I'm using when I use mine.
Step up to an rMBP 13". I just bought mine a week ago and couldn't be happier.
It's the best portable machine I've ever used, and I've used a lot since 1996.
It's no GPU power house, but trying to do GPU intensive stuff on a portable is stupid anyway, you're inherently limited by thermal and power consumption constraints. i.e., you buy a high end GPU in a laptop, and unless you're using it on AC power you'll drain the battery super quick and it will be quite hot as well. Been there, done that with my 15".
It's dead silent, fan rarely comes on, the screen is lovely, it's more than light enough (coming from my classic MBP 15"), the keyboard is great, the trackpad is great, etc.
The rMP is a neat little machine if small size is important and you really want a retina display, but if you can live with a little extra weight the rMBP is a way better machine in all respects.
It's the best portable machine I've ever used, and I've used a lot since 1996.
It's no GPU power house, but trying to do GPU intensive stuff on a portable is stupid anyway, you're inherently limited by thermal and power consumption constraints. i.e., you buy a high end GPU in a laptop, and unless you're using it on AC power you'll drain the battery super quick and it will be quite hot as well. Been there, done that with my 15".
It's dead silent, fan rarely comes on, the screen is lovely, it's more than light enough (coming from my classic MBP 15"), the keyboard is great, the trackpad is great, etc.
The rMP is a neat little machine if small size is important and you really want a retina display, but if you can live with a little extra weight the rMBP is a way better machine in all respects.
I was talking about my MBP 2015. Not really 'blazingly' faster than my 2011 MBA except when really loaded with tasks.
A whole 2 people? Like more than 1 and less than 3? Holy balls. You proved it.
Searched. All I found were a bunch of your posts criticizing everything apple does. You take this **** too seriously
Your 2015 MBP isn't blazingly faster than your 2011 MBA? Something is very wrong there.
So I bit the bullet last night... I went to Best Buy and bought the 2015 Retina Macbook Pro, 2.9 ghz, 8gb RAM, 512 gb SSD model.
It's the $1799 model, and damn if I didn't get a heck of a deal on it. I went in with 2 movers coupons and a $100 off student discount coupon. Got a kinda air-headish lady. I handed her all 3 and said whichever coupons would apply, please use them. So she scanned my rewards card, then scanned all 3 coupons. Their computer actually had to think for 30 seconds, which she says is "it running the coupon serial numbers to confirm validity, and that the ones which applied and could be combined would pop up"...
Low and behold, it finished, then she totaled it out. $1408 out the door including tax and recycle fee here in CA. I was astonished. So it went from $1799 ($1981.90 with tax here in CA) down to $1408.21 including tax and recycling fee, plus I'll get $42 back in Best Buy rewards certificates. I couldn't believe the deal I had just gotten (no wonder why BBY is shuttering stores lol)
So I got it home and set it up. Thus far impressions are that it's big... and heavy... really big, and really heavy (compared to my previous rMB and before that my 11" MBA)... but what I immediately noticed is how absolutely blazing fast it is (the "feel" is on par with my iMac 5k). Restoring my backup took 19 minutes (took 1hr25 minutes on my rMB). Booting is much faster, the screen is gorgeous (the extra inch over the rMB is a lot bigger)..
So now my only hurdle is to get over the size. I almost thought about buying a non-retina or a 15" version and using it for a week, then switching to the 13" again, to try and show myself how light it really is for the specs, kinda like in baseball when the batters put the weights on their bats during practice to make them swing lighter during the game. hehe
I feel like I have to love it at the price I got it for. lol ;-)
It's the $1799 model, and damn if I didn't get a heck of a deal on it. I went in with 2 movers coupons and a $100 off student discount coupon. Got a kinda air-headish lady. I handed her all 3 and said whichever coupons would apply, please use them. So she scanned my rewards card, then scanned all 3 coupons. Their computer actually had to think for 30 seconds, which she says is "it running the coupon serial numbers to confirm validity, and that the ones which applied and could be combined would pop up"...
Low and behold, it finished, then she totaled it out. $1408 out the door including tax and recycle fee here in CA. I was astonished. So it went from $1799 ($1981.90 with tax here in CA) down to $1408.21 including tax and recycling fee, plus I'll get $42 back in Best Buy rewards certificates. I couldn't believe the deal I had just gotten (no wonder why BBY is shuttering stores lol)
So I got it home and set it up. Thus far impressions are that it's big... and heavy... really big, and really heavy (compared to my previous rMB and before that my 11" MBA)... but what I immediately noticed is how absolutely blazing fast it is (the "feel" is on par with my iMac 5k). Restoring my backup took 19 minutes (took 1hr25 minutes on my rMB). Booting is much faster, the screen is gorgeous (the extra inch over the rMB is a lot bigger)..
So now my only hurdle is to get over the size. I almost thought about buying a non-retina or a 15" version and using it for a week, then switching to the 13" again, to try and show myself how light it really is for the specs, kinda like in baseball when the batters put the weights on their bats during practice to make them swing lighter during the game. hehe
I feel like I have to love it at the price I got it for. lol ;-)
As mentioned, Flash is the killer on battery life. On most laptops it cuts it about in half. That's why it is not supported on the iPad.
The OP is asking between the rMBP and rMB, and the reply was talking about how a rMB compares to an iPad.
Not in this case - I called it irrelevant because it was. In any case, congrats on your rMBP. It seems like you are enjoying it so far!
Apparently you venture outside the threads that even pertain to the products you own, LOL. But case in point, same topic, everyone in the rMB thread said the rMB is the greatest thing, and in this thread, it's all about how the rMBP is the best.
So I went and bought the rMBP last night. Lasted all of 15 hours with it and it's just too big, too heavy, too bulky to be practical for as much as I travel. I guess I'm just going to have to suck it up and deal with the slowness of the rMB until something faster in an ultra-light comes along.
I have both the rMB and the 13" rMBP (i7/16/512) and I find that although the rMB is really really light and portable, I just can't help but feel that it's like an iPad on steroids and that's about it. Basically it's built for people who want to do iPad tasks but with OS X instead.
I don't really think the 13" rMBP is heavy, but that's probably because I've been lugging around a heavy 15" cMBP since 2011, and I went all-rMBPs from late-2013 onwards. The 13" rMBP is ridiculously light compared to my old 15" cMBP.
You loved your old 11 inch air so much why not get another one instead of putting up with the slowness of the rMB? It can't handle flash to your standards or scroll through your email fast enough, why put up with it?
Agreed with the iPad analogy. Disagree about the rMBP weight but that's probably because I've been lugging around an Air for 3 years. ;-)