Why don't you keep it to YOUR self. The thread starter raised a valid question and it is your comment, if anything, which is worthless.
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Call me crazy, but I just spent 3k on a MacBook Pro Retina
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Why don't you keep it to YOUR self. The thread starter raised a valid question and it is your comment, if anything, which is worthless.
May I ask: why did you order it when there's a refresh in just a few days? Was it a great deal?
Huddling together to support somebody's decision to buy a computer that could be much improved for the same price in a week's time or identical with a much lower price would be very weird and akin to the forums where anorexic people egg each other on to lose more weight or something. OP dun goofed.
Well if your employer paid for it then fair enough but even if you don't care about new specs you could have saved a fair amount of money by waiting for half a week.
You could have best of both worlds if you work on the machine you bought for the next week and then return it and either get the new model or rebuy the old model for a lot less. Sure that involves some time and effort but at least $200 for not more than a couple of hours to set everything up seems like a great hourly rate to me.
Top spec 15" rMPB reduce 20% free delivery (total $2591), you tell me.
The new ones (if there are any, thats a big if) have to be more than 20% faster to match the value on CPU performance, otherwise it's just false economy.
As far as I can tell on notebook check the benchmark difference between i7-3820 Ivy and i7-4800 Haswell is an improvement of about 7%, thats all. Even so it's not going to revolutionise my work performance, and I use the power adaptor all the time so battery life increases are lost on me. I see no point in waiting as...
... I need it now, I have to travel and need to process heavy loads for a few hours at a time for work (8 threads 100%) and use at least 10-14GB of RAM.
The OP will not even look over his shoulder at the update (IF there is one), unless there is some major short fall with the current rMBP (there isn't).
I was spewing that I needed to be at my new laptop working at the same time the first updates will be shipped, close but no cigar. I bought an iPad 3 one month before the 4 came out and I still don't feel the need to update it, it is still slick fast and beautiful a new one will not improve on that enough, not yet anyway.
My only other option was to order a Metabox Clevo with Haswell and 32GB ram but it to only started taking orders today and need 5 day build time leaving me with a laptop after the 17th which I will be away already. Just the way it is, not a crime or anything.
Edit: Just checked the Metabox suppliers and the Haswell stock is now arriving the 10th, so I have absolutely made the right choice. If I didn't purchase on Wednesday I would have missed the sale and would have to pay $3199 for the same MacBook and wait for new stock (it sold out yesterday). Lucky me.
I am on time, under budget and 9.5/10ths of what I wanted. Oh, and it is company money not mine so it doesn't really matter anyway.
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Why not buy it on eBay for less than $2500?
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That's the wonderful thing about forums, it's a place where people who want solitude can all come here and be alone together.
I think there is a term for that: Starts with H, can't quite think of it, where like minded individuals come together with other like minded individuals and look for self gratification on a common subject.
Most forums are like that. Anyway, this is of topic.
And here we are, no update to Pros so all those that called the OP crazy, you were wrong
Mean while a I am enjoying my cheap full spec pro...
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Er of course they are coming. It's not like it's never heard of for Apple to stagger their hardware updates. Look at the iMac last year, everything else was on Ivy Bridge and it was still on Sandy Bridge. (Possibly Mac Mini's as well? cannot remember)