Yo B..., what's going to be your plan of action as I know we were in the same boat and was hoping for a refreshed rMBP to be announced.
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No Macbook Pros at WWDC :=(
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Yo B..., what's going to be your plan of action as I know we were in the same boat and was hoping for a refreshed rMBP to be announced.
Good choice, I'm going to wait as well. Even though the new Airs are pretty sweet, I too want the Retina display. I will hold out as long as I can for the refreshed rMBP.
The only issue I have is with the Back to School offer. If it's good this year, I'll just get the old rMBP (even though I just sold mine...). If not, I'll wait for the new rMBP and just not get the BTS offer. Neither solution is ideal, but what can ya do?
I think I'll make my decision next month.
Depending on the money I have, if I have enough, I think I might just get a rMBP. If not, I'll get a 13" Air.
Any idea when the Back to School promo starts? I bet it will be another $100 iTunes card.. which I don't really care for.. but it's free.
Yes, Apple should shoot itself in the foot by telling everyone not to buy any more MBP's because they're about to be old and outdated crap.
LOL!
They're going to be kicking themselves for not having an update before the new school year. The past few college freshman classes have been able to get the updated version. It didn't always have the new OS X, but they did update the hardware.
Back to School promo usually starts mid June. Last year it started June 11, and in 2011 it started around June 16. I'd expect to see it pop up sometime in the next week or so.
Personally, I don't *need* a new computer now, so I'm just going to wait for the next rMBP revision anyway.
That's right - they've just done the hardware segment. No Macbook Pros
And that's what I was saying all along...
You mean like the Mac Pro today, or the 3 Ghz PowerMac G5 that Jobs announced but Apple couldn't make work so they released a 2.5 Ghz 12 months later, or the SE030 at the SE launch or the... I could go on and on. It's not like they haven't done it before.
Sucks a lot!!!
I have been waiting to upgrade to rMBP, then give my 12 year old my 2007 17" Santa Rosa MBP.
I bought a refurb rMBP last month, but returned it. I realized if I've waited 6 years, and the price is 3k, I'll wait for the best. NOT!!!
Was hoping for:
rMBP 15"
Processor bump
802.11 a/c
Up to 1 TB flash hardrive upgrade avail
New OS
About $3,200
Oh. That's right. People don't do creative work in the summer!!!???!!!
I have been waiting to upgrade to rMBP, then give my 12 year old my 2007 17" Santa Rosa MBP.
I bought a refurb rMBP last month, but returned it. I realized if I've waited 6 years, and the price is 3k, I'll wait for the best. NOT!!!
Was hoping for:
rMBP 15"
Processor bump
802.11 a/c
Up to 1 TB flash hardrive upgrade avail
New OS
About $3,200
Oh. That's right. People don't do creative work in the summer!!!???!!!
At least you didn't sell yours -.-
why in the world would you sell it without waiting first for the announcement? it's not like it was going to sell out if it was announced
Yes
Buy in October, then refresh in Feb '14 and new ones Oct '14.
Repeat!!
Almost pulled the trigger on a 386, then I heard the 486's were gonna be much more powerful, so I waited.
Now I hear about Iris. Will this ever end ??
I'll definitely wait for the new ones to be announced before I buy anything, but the refurb Retinas are looking pretty good right now. With what I sold my baseline Retina for yesterday, an upgraded rMBP with the 2.6GHz CPU/512GB SSD/8GB RAM would cost me less than $300 out of pocket.
I've been out of the loop for a while, so could someone explain to me why October is the expected release for the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display? I'm hearing stuff about Intel's Iris Pro, but I haven't seen any word on release dates for it.
Actually, It had a anti-glare screen.
But, looking into the future, I was willing to give up anti-glare for big hardware bumps.
Buy a new Air, sell 3 month old air and buy rMBP? Doesnt seem to bad
To be honest I would have done the same if my Macbook was in resell able condition.
Haha I know, I think I'll just wait it out, I've a PC that'll do for a while. I thought I'd sell it just before the WWDC just in case the MacBook's were updated and my 2012 model lost even more value, but now I've got to wait a few months! First world problems at its best haha