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Apple Introduces “Next Generation MacBook Pro” with 15.4″ Retina Display, Starts at $2199

Hustler1337 said:
I need a bit of help guys (and girls). I'm contemplating on getting the base model Retina MBP as that's the best I could try to afford.

However, as it comes with only a 256GB SSD, does this mean I am stuck with only 256GB? Would it not be possible to add a secondary standard hard drive? I don't wish to use an external drive as a means of adding additional storage space.

Why do SSD's have to be so expensive!! :D

Thanks
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Ummm is it NOT SSD. It is a FLASH drive. Its a similar but very different technology.
 
Pricing begins at $2,199 for the base model with the Retina display, a 2.3GHz quad-core Ivy Bridge i7, 8GB of RAM, a NVidia GeForce GT 650M 1GB graphics card, and 256GB of flash storage.
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looking at the buy options, there is no option to increase the size of the flash storage in the base model !!! :mad:

you have to buy the more expensive machine just to get 512 GB .... fail.
 
ralphthemagi said:
If you've ever seen a 1920x1080 display being rendered in actual pixel space on a 15" it's pretty hard to work with. Not impossible, but not exactly ideal.
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I've used a Sony Vaio P with its 8" 1600 x 768 display (~220DPI) and everything was just much too small. It was great that everything looked sharp but I felt as if my eye balls were falling out trying to squint at tiny texts.

The new MBP looks great. Who'd thunk a MacBook update would be the center of attention at this WWDC?
 
This new MBP is freaking awesome!! :D

I would definitely buy one if it wasn't so far out of my budget. Hopefully the new design bits will find their way into the 'lower-end' MBPs during the next refresh.
 
Prices roam from $3000 to $3800 for the new Macbook over here. This is so not happening for me. :(
 
Sweet, the new pro takes off $200 bucks w/ the educational discount. Plus my dad gets at least a 15% discount on Apple products so I can get this for around $1700 for next year. If he gets 20% off then I can get it for $1600. Not bad.
 
kironin said:
looking at the buy options, there is no option to increase the size of the flash storage in the base model !!! :mad:

you have to buy the more expensive machine just to get 512 GB .... fail.
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Noticed that. Bit sneaky, but I'm already stretched for the base model so no biggy for me!
 
Anyone else notice the Mac Pro also has a 'new' badge

Anyone else notice the Mac Pro also has a 'new' badge on the Apple Store site?
 
Almost perfect that new 15". Perfect size, right screen ratio, finally some decent IO, good or great everything else.
Price sucks but that was to be expected.

BUT WHY NOT ADD A 2.5" HDD SLOT.
Hybrid solutions are the best thing in the world. I might even be okay with the price but I don't like having to carry around external drives all the time, and pluggin them in. Paying for expensive SSD space is no alternative.
Given the price a 256GB SSD standard and a space where I can fit a 2.5" hdd.

Hybrid is so nice you have a cloned backup inside that picks right up if the system drive fails. You can handle fast working data on the SSD and still be able to handle the GoPro movies from holidays, handle your entertainment movie, tv show library, a big music library or whatever else.

I wouldn't buy that notebook. I hope though it is a good starts and others will produce similar stuff with no such downsides. By the time Haswell hits rentina probably is in the upper mainstream notebooks and many notebooks with good I/O, storage space, speed and all will show for less money.
 
is dictation a next gen mbp feature only or is that simply part of mountain lion? please dont tell me its a "only" feature
 
I dont need the new retina display. Its a gimmick that doesn't help the way I work at all. I hardly notice the pixilation on my 2008 mbp. I do however want a SSD. I might get the retina MBP because its CHEAPER than just upgrading the regular MBP! Crazy Apple ugh.
 
wikus said:
There better be a way to replace that SSD drive at will, otherwise that lonesome fixed drive will make that laptop a FAILURE.

I have no intentions of being stuck with only one drive and a set capacity.

It better be a standard 2.5" drive.
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It obviously isn't a 2.5 drive.. the images show its the same blade design they would just keep using the blade SSD's to save costs and that they already have them available with airs.

So its the same thing as the air, you can upgrade them but they are expensive.
 
If you are a student, this is an ABSOLUTE STEAL! You get $200 OFF and a $100 iTunes gift card. Awwww snap! That brings this bad boy to $1999!
 
Mak47 said:
The store is back up, the Mac Pro got a silent update.
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Isn't that the same graphics option they had before? What's new?

Still no thunderbolt ports to be seen on it...same core config options...still $1000 for a 512GB SSD....

I see the "new" tag on top of it, but what, exactly, is new about it? I am not asking to be snarky, I really don't know. I bought an 08 mac pro, and an '11 mbp, and I haven't kept up with the mac pro lineup lately, except to notice that it was basically unchanged over the last 2 years or so, and due for either a refresh or a killing.

are the prices different? because I don't remember paying so much for the mid-line 08 mac pro. That was 2499 for dual 4-core 2.8ghz, and i loaded up the RAM/hard drive bays at OWC for another 600 bucks....I don't see anything about this new machine that justifies it costing more than I paid 4 years ago when you consider how much has changed in computers over the last 4 years...
 
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