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Does the retina MacBook have problems or should I buy.
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yes, confirmed. (unfortunately). but that's the US statistic, maybe it's better in other countries.
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yes, rumor has it that apple retail staff are trying to give returners a hard time with the MPBr, trying to persuade them to keep it. (unclear whether that's official company policy, but that's hard to find out.)
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yes, rumor has it that apple retail staff are trying to give returners a hard time with the MPBr, trying to persuade them to keep it. (unclear whether that's official company policy, but that's hard to find out.)
> yes, confirmed. (unfortunately).
> confirmed. (unfortunately).
> confirmed.
Source?
Oh goodness knows it isn't perfect. Neither is my Mac Mini or MacBook Air. And none of them ever will be. Aside from the fact that your definition of perfect won't be mine, and mine won't be someone else's, there are always compromises. A perfect laptop would have a XEON processor, 32 GB of RAM, 12 TB of SSD storage, a 32-inch screen, run for 20 hours on a charge (without heating up) and fold up to be the size of an iPod shuffle.
But in terms of whether the rMBP is a not-ready-for-prime-time beta (which I do think applied to the 1st generation MBA) or a laptop that, like every other, isn't perfect but is perfectly usable, I'd go for the latter, not the former.
I basically have only been using my cMBP as backup/continuing to store data. until I could verify that everything had been transferred successfully over to the new machine. Now that I've verified that, I can do a clean install of ML before selling it.
sad state of affairs indeed.
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that's the word on the street. (in the US)
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that's the word on the street. (in the US)
Using it right now; I am new to Macs/osx and really like it.
I bought it because i wanted a powerful slim machine and this fit my criteria; I honestly don't have any issues with it until now;
I am running windows 7 on parallels off of a usb 3 external portable drive [works great and the usb 3 is fast enough; haven't experienced any lag]
running linux server vm and a bunch of other dev tools.
other then that i don't expect to game on it other than maybe Starcraft 2; which shouldn't have any problems at all.
I read about a whole bunch of build problems with rMBP as well as lag; haven't experienced any of them.
I have the 2.3/16/256 model
honestly, i'd recommend it; but it depends what you expect to do with it. for me i was looking for a strong machine with 15in screen and high res.
also you have 14 days to return it if u don't like it, so you can always try it
Edit: I am also loving the battery, beats the 3hours i got on my older [2years] hp laptop; getting generally around 9 hours.
I bought it because i wanted a powerful slim machine and this fit my criteria; I honestly don't have any issues with it until now;
I am running windows 7 on parallels off of a usb 3 external portable drive [works great and the usb 3 is fast enough; haven't experienced any lag]
running linux server vm and a bunch of other dev tools.
other then that i don't expect to game on it other than maybe Starcraft 2; which shouldn't have any problems at all.
I read about a whole bunch of build problems with rMBP as well as lag; haven't experienced any of them.
I have the 2.3/16/256 model
honestly, i'd recommend it; but it depends what you expect to do with it. for me i was looking for a strong machine with 15in screen and high res.
also you have 14 days to return it if u don't like it, so you can always try it
Edit: I am also loving the battery, beats the 3hours i got on my older [2years] hp laptop; getting generally around 9 hours.
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But by who? It's really all just hearsay and conjecture until there's an actual source. Anybody can say things like "word on the street", so that argument doesn't hold much water.
And citing your own thread about how buggy/"beta" the rMBP is doesn't count as a source.