I think I've decided on the rMBP at £1199. The rMB is nice but I want something with more power as I tend to keep my Macs for around 3 years.
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ANOTHER rMB vs rMBP. Sorry
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If you're going to keep it for 3 years, consider getting the model with 256 GB SSD.
A MINIMUM of 256 GB SSD, especially if you enjoy media. With songs increasing in bitrate (size), and video increasing in resolution (shifting from standard of 720p and 1080p to 1080p and 4k), you're going to need all the storage you can get. 512 should be the standard now if you're planning on keeping it for more than a year. Notice now Apple gives the option of 1 TB? Soon the SSD standards will be 256\512\1024 gb
I did state earlier that I use my Network storage drive for my media. 4 terabytes in a RAID1 array.
How do you connect to it when you're out and about\traveling and want to watch a movie?
Very unreliable. If your home internet connection goes down while away, you're SOL. 90% of the hotels domestic and international don't have sufficient bandwidth to stream a HD youtube let alone a video from a home network via the internet. It's good for accessing a file here or there, but I've used every solution out there and nothing is reliable. Better off just carrying a thumb drive if it comes down to it.
Yes and I have a USB 3.0 128GB thumb drive for when needs must. Don't panic honestly. I work in IT and I am quite happy with having just 256GB in my laptop. Got a 1TB drive too which is portable and USB 3.0.
To clear this all up:
My new place I'm moving into does not have enough space to accommodate a desk so that is why I'm downsizing to a laptop. I don't tend to travel or go on holiday, and when I do I have a 4G dongle I can use which works with 3G as well.
iCloud keychain has saved all my logins from my phone when connecting to other hotspots including BT Openzone, The Cloud and o2, my current phone provider, so there's nearly always wifi of some sort wherever I go. I also have numerous hard drives so really, the storage is not an issue for me.
I have a 1TB drive in the iMac and around 920GB of it is not used. This is where the NAS comes in, which is mirrored and then snapshots are backed up daily to an external source.
Please, there is no need to panic.
My new place I'm moving into does not have enough space to accommodate a desk so that is why I'm downsizing to a laptop. I don't tend to travel or go on holiday, and when I do I have a 4G dongle I can use which works with 3G as well.
iCloud keychain has saved all my logins from my phone when connecting to other hotspots including BT Openzone, The Cloud and o2, my current phone provider, so there's nearly always wifi of some sort wherever I go. I also have numerous hard drives so really, the storage is not an issue for me.
I have a 1TB drive in the iMac and around 920GB of it is not used. This is where the NAS comes in, which is mirrored and then snapshots are backed up daily to an external source.
Please, there is no need to panic.
Basic human cowardice is to complain incessantly in an attempt to convince yourself that it's not your fault that you made a bad purchase, it's someone else who is responsible.
BJ
Thing is, we ran to iPad's because notebooks were so big and cumbersome and hot and noisy with crappy screens and crappy battery life. But we liked notebooks. They just disappointed us.
So when Apple releases a notebook that is everything that's good about an iPad with everything that's convenient about a notebook it makes perfect sense to gravitate back to the notebook. I can't type 50 words a minute on an iPad. I can't efficiently and quickly create a Powerpoint presentation on an iPad. I can watch a movie on a RMB. I can respond to an email on a RMB.
BJ
Just wanted to add my personal experience to this thread. I also work in IT ;-) and previously had a MBA 13 with 256GB SSD. I have *lots* of external drives, thumb drives, SD cards and a 12TB NAS, but I still like having "ample" storage on the laptop itself. I upgraded to a rMBP 15 and was initially looking at getting the base model with 256GB SSD. In the end I got a refurb high-end model with 512GB SSD for almost the same price. I've actually found have the 512GB storage *really useful*. Yes, I could get by with 256GB, but with the larger SSD I don't have to shuffle large VM images and media files around like I used to with the MBA. In general, I spend less time doing "house-keeping" on my disks, to decide what is necessary, and what I can live without when I travel.
I'd totally agree that a NAS is great on a local network, but really only a fall-back for remote access. I've pulled off documents for reference, and occasionally downloaded a movie in a hotel, but it often takes hours - partly due to limited hotel bandwidth, but also due to very asynchronous upload speeds on my home network - maybe only 100KB/s upload (i.e. download to the remote client).
Given the choice, I would go for more local SSD storage - it's just more convenient in the long run.
If you're going to have only a single Mac, stick with the rMBP. I own an iMac, and my work provides me with a company 15" rMBP, so I don't really lose anything by getting the rMB.
Sorry for the lack of update. Ended up getting a rMB as my primary computer. Runs what I need it to run perfectly fine (one window for browsing and another to concurrently watch a youtube video). My only issue is probably the fact that the screen is so small coming from a 15" but whatever. This could be remedied if youtube had an app where I can make the window smaller, almost the size of doing the video in picture that the new ipad will be able to do or the samsung galaxy line. Hopefully that comes true eventually.
Other than that, the computer is cool.
Other than that, the computer is cool.