One little fun fact that the macbook fanboys HATE is their beloved rMB didn't cpu benchmark as fast as a new iPad air 2. LOLOL
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.
Wow someone is butthurt.
Cool. And loving the performance? I'm coming from a MBA 11" > 12" rMB > 13" rMBP, so the weight and size gain are going to be a lot more noticeable for me, but I'm hoping the performance gain blows me away to where the others are irrelevant.
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 thatAccording to several (of the more vocal) ones here in this forum, "the rMB runs just as fast as the rMBP" contrary to me pointing out the many benchmarks and reviews indicating otherwise. LOL
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
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.
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.
Search. 2 people stated that it was just as fast as their last computer, which was a 2014 rMBP.
I was talking about my MBP 2015. Not really 'blazingly' faster than my 2011 MBA except when really loaded with tasks.
My biggest pet peeve is the performance. It's awful, or I'm just critical. The issues where I notice it are flash sites (Facebook games, etc) where it's jerky or so laggy that it's unusable. Also, I notice it on little things like when I'm clicking through unread emails with the arrow keys, I often click on an email and then click on the next and the processor is so slow it doesn't register the email as having been clicked on, so it's not marked read. Things like installing software, OS updates, etc, on average takes twice as long as my old Macbook Air.
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Although Flash has recently added support for H.264, the video on almost all Flash websites currently requires an older generation decoder that is not implemented in mobile chips and must be run in software. The difference is striking: on an iPhone, for example, H.264 videos play for up to 10 hours, while videos decoded in software play for less than 5 hours before the battery is fully drained.
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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.
How is posting about the rMB under a thread about the rMB, "irrelevant"?
How is posting about the rMB under a thread about the rMB, "irrelevant"?
When people disagree with something they call anything irrelevant.
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!
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.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.
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.