How Do You Justify Retina?

[nikicampos]

So basically the answer comes down to this:


Those who did buy the Retina believe that a slightly lighter and thinner Macbook with a display that only has benefits at Apples "retina best" resolution is worth an extra $800 (and possibly more in the future with needed repairs you can't do yourself any longer).

To me, that is almost double the cost and not worth it. You could essentially buy a slightly used iMac or another Macbook with that money.

I also think people are concentrating on flash storage speeds that you would never notice outside of a benchmark test. Over another comparable Sata 3 SSD of course.


I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Thanks for the replies!

Why do you keep comparing a used versus a new product?

The new 13" MacBook Pro is $1,199
(2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz, 4GB 1600MHz memory, 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive1, Intel HD Graphics 4000)

There's a cheaper Retina MacBook Pro at $1,299 only a hundred dollars more. But if you want to kind of match the specs from the $1,199 MBP you have this option.

The new 13" Retina MacBook Pro is $1,499
(2.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz, 8GB 1600MHz memory, 256GB PCIe-based flash storage1
Intel Iris Graphics

So, it's basically only a $300 difference.

And I'm pretty sure that but the end of this year, the 13" MBP will disappear from the Apple store and they will only sell MacBook Pro's with Retina Display.

 

[accountforit]

Why do you keep comparing a used versus a new product?

Because I was comparing what I could actually buy on the secondary market. To me, slightly used vs. new doesn't matter. I know some people are paranoid as all hell and would spend double the money just to say they bought new. I am not one of those people. Everything new is now used as soon as you take it out of the box. It's just like buying a car and driving it off the car lot and losing tons of money as soon as you do it. Dumb.