Yeah, mine was in that same shipment group from China, so I'm expecting to the the little beauty sometime this morning.
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For me memory and storage space were easy decisions.
My current MBP's (mid 2009) bottleneck seems to be memory. Even maxed out at 8GB it struggles. I'm a web developer, so I have lots of apps open at the same time, primarily Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Aperture and various browsers. Safari seems to be the worst memory hog offender but I use it lots. There's normally not enough left of the 8GB for me to run Parallels too. For it to have enough memory to run decently I need to shut down other stuff.
When I got the 2009 MBP it ran just fine with 4GB of memory. As my needs grew and as applications' appetite grew for memory I was able to extend the machine's usability by doubling its memory. Currently doing that with the rMBP doesn't look very feasible.
For storage I'm currently using around 250 GB, so I knew 256 GB wasn't going to cut it. Although my storage space needs have increased in the last 3 years, it's been a slow and gradual increase. I doubt I'll need anywhere near double the space in the next 3-5 years, so to max out the SSD would have been a waste.
I see Apple's shipping estimates for rMBP's are now down to 2-3 weeks in the US for all configurations.
Countdown to kickoff.
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