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New Retina Macbook - the most beautiful notebook ever designed? With poll
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You are right, damn I shouldn't be a grammer nazi in a rush.
You are right, damn I shouldn't be a grammer nazi in a rush.
I channel Steve Jobs and I don't like the looks of this rMP.
Looks like a Sony/Panasonic.
Need to see a little screen bezel to match rest of the case.
Lighted logo classic Apple lost now can be confused with a Lenovo (eeeww) from the back.
Barely any bezel around kbd/mouse somehow not aesthetically pleasing, not in proportion.
Looks like a Sony/Panasonic.
Need to see a little screen bezel to match rest of the case.
Lighted logo classic Apple lost now can be confused with a Lenovo (eeeww) from the back.
Barely any bezel around kbd/mouse somehow not aesthetically pleasing, not in proportion.
I prefer the look of the rMBP's. They look more professional, sturdy and uniform IMO.
The MB looks fragile, and gimmicky.
At least from the photo's. I'd have to see one in person to make a final call.
The MB looks fragile, and gimmicky.
At least from the photo's. I'd have to see one in person to make a final call.
They could have squeezed several more hours of battery life into it if it wasn't tapered. That's my only gripe, but it would have made it heavier and perhaps made typing less appealing. I don't know.
I wish the marketing department would stop saying 9 hours is "all day" battery life. 9 hours is great. You don't have to shill so hard.
9 hours is all day on a laptop and thats conservatively speaking. I noticed that my 2012 13" rMBP had better battery life in real world use than even my 11" MBA.
Most people are 8 hours asleep and 16 hours awake. I would say 16 hour is closer to being legitimately "all day" instead of lawyer-speak.
I voted yes. From an engineering standpoint this is one of the most amazing designs I've ever seen. When you look at the bottom case and see the scalloped design (essentially ribs that reinforce the rigidity of the unibody) I can see that every aspect of manufacturing this machine has been thought through thoroughly.
On the outside its minimalism at its finest.
On the outside its minimalism at its finest.
Oh well, 16 hours minus 1 to 2 hours bathroom, 2 to 3 hours preparing food and eating, another hour for coffee breaks, any number of hours of recreational activity like sports, lets make that a round 2 to 3 hours and there's about 8 to 9 hours left for work, for which notebooks are designed.
I think it depends on what you are doing with it.
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The poll results are there and they show 70+%. I think the machine is gorgeous but I can see the similarities with an MBA. I think it's more like an improved MBA design wise.
With the current cost of gold at $1,154 per ounce you are saying that your MacBook Pro Retina is worth $82,349.44 and your MacBook Air is worth $54,653.44.
If that is what they are worth to you then you would have no problem paying that much for them then since they are worth that much to you, right?
I gotta say you are drinking the cool-aid man.
Apple is master of making those videos, "this is just the finest aluminum ever produced with 99.9999% purity, etched in a vacuum more potent than outer space!" THEY ARE VERY GOOD AT IT. Myself I think cool, but what's the $premium you are asking me to pay? and what am I compromising?
Give me a self-healing, liquid metal that can never the scratched then you sold me.
I like minimalist designs myself, clean, uncluttered, don't give me stuff that don't work and just make it look busy, BUT sometimes there is such thing as too bared, IMO. Some very expensive stereos, they are so minimalist that they don't even give you a remote, everything is manual because that's what purity demands. No-no-no-no-no, good quality is fine but I need my convenience!
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so you didn't liked powerbook 12" either same edge to edge keyboard
i think latter this year they will announce a 14" version, but not even a rumour about it, still it's still march
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You realize that Apple didn't say **** about the scalloped design right? Only that the batteries fit into it. They didn't mention at all the new unibody construction. Open your eyes to thoughtful design, I don't give a damn about the aluminum composition and never claimed to.
I'm not buying that machine because I just purchased what I really wanted, the 13" rMBP. But I'm guessing in two years when the entire PC laptop industry has conformed to the new standard that apple has set, exactly as they did with unibody construction, and again with the MBA you'll just be saying that's how laptops have always been engineered correct?:roll eyes:
Credit where credit is due.
Nope. I'm not really a fan of the whole G4 lineup, if I'm honest. Then again, that is probably because I can compare it to the unibody, which is probably the definition of brilliant industrial design.
Voted NO!
Nothing comes close to the 17" Powerbook G4.
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Good lord that trackpad is tiny!
Voted NO!
Nothing comes close to the 17" Powerbook G4.
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The 17" MacBook Pro comes really, really close...
Good lord that trackpad is tiny!
...and it has a larger trackpad.