Get the new 13". It's a legitimately awesome looking and powerful device. You won't miss the screen real estate. You should be looking to dock to a larger monitor for anything you want to do that'd require that space anyway.
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MacBook Air and 13" Retina MacBook Pro Updated to Improve Speed and Battery Life
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Get the new 13". It's a legitimately awesome looking and powerful device. You won't miss the screen real estate. You should be looking to dock to a larger monitor for anything you want to do that'd require that space anyway.
The revamped 13" MBP has exactly the same processor in the $1299 and the $1499 versions and only a slight bump(but still an i5) in the $1799 version. As it stands now, the only difference in the $1299 and $1499 versions is the size of the storage(128 vs 256). In the past, wasn't there a different processor in each price point with an i7 in the most expensive one and an increase in storage capacity??
I'm in your same exact situation. My old 15" macbook is aging and I was hoping to order a new fully-loaded one today. I am hesitant to get a 13" because I really like as much screen real estate as I can get since I occasionally use final cut. I guess I am leaning towards option 2 since I am hoping the 15" will have a better graphics card. I'm trying to choose between your option 1 or 2 myself, but I don't think I would do #3. I'm interested to hear what other people think...
You can bump this version up to a dual-core i7.
http://store.apple.com/us-k12/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MF841LL/A&step=config#
No, it does not. I think the people in charge of the supply chain at Apple know a bit more than the experts at macrumors.com
True, but, from what I've read, the SOONEST available date for the new processors is end of July or August... that's 6 months away.
For those of us who are ready to buy now out of necessity, it poses a pretty big dilemma.
True, but I don't really want a bag-o-adapters to deal with either. But still, I guess if it's that important than I could do it. I wonder if it could drive a large thunderbolt display.
The lack of Thunderbolt on the new MacBook implies the end of Thunderbolt for mass consumers. Apple has decided (maybe rightly) that only professionals need it or are interested in paying for it.
It's hardly the end of the world, is it? And it's no reason to justify the "sky is falling on our heads" posts on the first page. I am keen to update my 2012 rMBP. A couple of months will not kill me. They will also not kill you.
Yeah. I doubt they are skipping those in general
Still used by extremely many people as workstation. Power + portability
To me, the new macbook 12" seems like a perfect school computer, but not much more
Anyone have any ideas when the 15" MacBook Pro might get Broadwell, too?
I can live without a force touch trackpad, but I'm sitting here ready to buy a high end machine and don't want to drop £1599 on a computer that's not running the latest chips, especially if an update is coming as soon as WWDC.
I can live without a force touch trackpad, but I'm sitting here ready to buy a high end machine and don't want to drop £1599 on a computer that's not running the latest chips, especially if an update is coming as soon as WWDC.
My laptop died... I've been borrowing my wife's $300 Toshiba and also working from my desktop PC for the last month.
So, yes... the next 6 months waiting will surely kill me.
I need to make a decision pretty soon.
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From what I've read, end of July into August is the earliest.
I'm in the same boat. Literally would place an order right now if they had updated the 15" MacBook Pro. Alas, Intel chips weren't ready.
You need a lot more Swedish Krona to generate the same amount of USD these days
http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=SEK&view=1Y
So for Apple they get the same amount of money, for the Swedish consumer it is more expensive.
As someone that owned a both a 15" and 13" Macbook Pro Retina of the Haswell Generation (15" was stolen) I would go with the 13". If you want screen real estate, get an external monitor. The 13" machine is much easier to handle. The battery life difference between them is huge as well. It seemed like the discrete card fired up all the time (even just in Safari) which would cut the run time down to just 5-6 hours.
The only reason to get the 15" is if you must have a quad core processor or the power of the discrete card. Just realize you'll sacrifice the portability. I would personally just rather have a Macbook + iMac.
The new 13" is even better than mine with the faster storage and longer battery life.
I do not get why the base rMBP is still 128GB, can you really run an OS with your day to day files in that much space? 256GB maybe, but I would have liked to see the mid-range with 512GB. I am going to have to buy the faster processor when all I want is the storage hike.
I'm finding this discussion provoking; I have a 2011 MBP (13"), but really only thought about the Air as my next purchase. I'm clearly easily led, because now I'm interested in checking out the MB12, too!
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If it would have had more storage, I would have gone with that and upgraded to 16GB of Ram. I think 8GB simply isn't enough either.