And did it make you think you might want to return your rMBP to go with it instead? If not, why not?
Actually I was a little jealous at first, mainly because the rMB is so tiny & thin. It truly felt like I could put it in my jacket pocket and carry it around that way all day. The more I think about it, I wouldn't trade my rMBP for this though. My rMBP is my only computer, so I need it to do everything well. The only thing the rMB seems to do better than my rMBP, is being ultraportable. I'd imagine the more I attempted to do with the rMB, the more its weaknesses would shine. Even the keyboard felt familiar, but still a little small and confined. Typing long documents on the smaller keyboard, attaching accessories or doing other full power tasks is where I'd want the bigger more robust rMBP back.
Oddly enough the reason why I bought the '15 rMBP were because of the same above weaknesses with my '11 MBA, it was simply too "ultra" for everything I needed it to do. 80% of the things I did.. my '11 MBA was the perfect machine. However when it came time to play HD video, or travel for an entire day with no power source, the MBA was fairly weak. Battery life was only about 4-5 hours, and much less if watching an HD movie on a flight. I'd be lucky to get 3 hours battery life watching a Bluray ripped movie. And while doing so, the fan would spin up ridiculously loud. Which is very annoying whenever doing processor intensive tasks like importing/exporting my 100GB photo library to a USB 2.0 external harddrive.
Its in these areas where the '15 rMBP shines. Battery life is a real world 10-11 hours on wifi as long as you avoid using Google Chrome. The only time I've ever heard the fan was when first setup the computer and restored the entire time machine backup from my old MBA to my new MBP. It has every ports I would need on a laptop except ethernet (HDMI, USB3.0, SD MEM). I cannot let go of the Magsafe connector, I'm the guy who always trips over the power cable. Finally the Retina screen, HD Facetime camera, full power 1.3Gb/s wifi, full power 28watt i5 CPU and ability of the 6100 "Iris" GPU to handle 4K video at 60hz out makes it future proof for the next few years.
The only things the rMB can do, from the above list, is operate completely silent (because its fanless) & provide a similiar beautiful Retina resolution.
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i think we (americans) are also probably writing the dates wrong..
the world writes calendar dates as:
small increment (day)
medium (month)
large (year)
we do:
medium
small
large
I disagree.. we do it the right way because we write the date the same way we speak the date.
For example today is April 10th. Which means it makes more sense to write it as 4/10 or 4/10/15.
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Oh please, 100 watts of power? At 5V that is 20 amps of current -- somehow I doubt the skinny gauge wires used in these cables is going to pass 20A of current without seriously overheating.
You speak as though thicker cables do not exist or cannot be made/sold.
The spec says USB-C supports 100watts of power. Do you have any scientific evidence to contradict that? I'm sure the various engineers at Apple would love to hear it.