Just thought I'd make a thread about the things I specifically didn't like about this redesign. Overall I am loving it though.
I both love and am a little disappointed at the same time.
1. No user upgradeable storage
2. Ditto with RAM. This hurts man.
3. small thing but ONLY ONE HEADPHONE INPUT. what happened to the headphone + microphone jacks like on the last one? I don't want to buy adapters and dongles
4. only two usb ports? Pathetic
5. Also, only 720p camera? Come on this 2012. they probably will update to 1080p in the spec bump next year.
6. $2800 for the high end 15 inch?!!? WTF. I thought the predictions of $3000 were laughable but I guess not.
7. Still only Stereo speakers. No subwoofer on the retina model either!
8. 1440 x 900 base resolution! WTF I need that extra screen space I get with 1650 x 1050!
Feel free to add anything else.
I've been waiting for buying this for several months now but a few things make me hesitant.
The main one is the price. I was willing to spend about $2300- $2400 for a BTO decently upgraded MBP. But this very high starting price is obscene and with the soldered RAM, it's even more expensive(I need 16GB).
The second main one is the screen resolution. Retina's great but the screen space is just too small to do serious work. I was hoping for at least 1080p for base resolution.
There are other things as mentioned in the first list, but these two I just mentioned might be big deal-breakers. I would use this machine for hd video editing and compositing work. I also plan on trying some 3d modeling with it.
Do you guys think it's worth it, even with the big drawbacks?
omg dese are n0t flawz what r u tlkin bowt?
this is hillarious. you got so many negative reps for genuinely logical concerns.
RAM + memory = people were praising macs last year for being able to do this. this forum was full of threads about SSDs, ram, optibay. I love how apple in our press conference can make all these fanboys sing a different tune.
on the input front, its simple. they want you to buy their adaptors because they want more money from you. a TB port is not a commonly used port, even amongst professionals who'd much rather their fire ports be supported w/o splashing out on silly adaptors which just complicate what should be a simple plug and play experience.
the camera front and HDD front tbh... its all a bit confusing. we have this amazing screen but they restrict FT to 720p, they give us no blueray drive or optical drive to take advantage of video for casual users and the base harddrive itself is pretty small for HD content.
next year, apple will give 1080p FT cameras and the same people who neg repped you will be jerking off about how amazing FT is in 1080p, guaranteed. no mention of bandwith problems next year
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speakers wise, until i hear them, i can't say anything but tbh i like my speakers on my mbp for a laptop and i'm sure they've only improved them.
price wise... i have no complaints. macs and apple are known to overprice and i don't mind paying as long as they include what I feel is a fairly versatile product which won't require 9839389 adaptors (otherwise i'd get a MBA).
i have an ipad, ipod, iphone, mbp but i'm not a fanboy. some people need to stop pointlessly negrepping people who are actually raising decent points just because they don't agree with what apple have done this year. i'm sure i'll get 393893893 neg reps rather than a reasonable debate but oh well.
