Good gosh I hope they don't kill off the Air, or bump the screen res. That Retina MacBook is a joke - it's not powerful enough to be a highness computer, and not cheap enough to an entry-level.
I genuinely don't understand how anyone with half a brain can talk themselves into buying one. People buy it because they're either misinformed or want bling-bling.
Agree completely.
Or, possibly, thirdly, they have been seduced by Apple's advertising into thinking that they have the latest, the coolest, and the best.
To be honest, the Retina MB reminds me a little of the first generation Airs. They looked terrific, - with a fantastic form factor - but were massively over-priced and even more massively underpowered with a very limited memory. (Remember that first SSD? It came with only 64GB, while the standard HDD - the alternative and slightly cheaper model - offered 80HDD).
I remember handling one with awe and having been bowled over by the lightness of the machine (while loving the aluminium body) and being enormously impressed with the superb form factor. But I made up my mind that I would only switch to it when Apple offered more - more power, more memory.
Eventually, over the generations and iterations of the MBA, it gradually happened. My original MBA, the one I bought in September 2010, the so called 'Rev C' was by far the best of the early MBAs. However, while it continued to improve as the years passed, it took a huge leap forward with the upgrades of 2013; that was when it became a superlative machine, by far the best computer currently on offer if you value that combination of portability and power.
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