You must have better eyes than I do. I placed the screen in any number of positions and had the computer sitting on a white surface and could not see through it. Even if I could this would not be a distraction at all. I'd say you are a person who is easily distracted.
No, I'm a person who likes their device to look and be solid and rugged. Big gaps don't say that to me.
It's a $2200+ laptop, I'm allowed to be picky.
"If I had one, "if" I placed it on my lap, do you really purchase things on "ifs"? You don't purchase much do you. Even "if" all this happen it would not have much of an effect.
Nice assumption about me. Rude. I was considering buying a rMBP at the same time considering a cMBP. I got to take a rMBP home from work for a few days like I said, I wasn't fan. I do a decent amount of video editing and some light gaming, and in that case the blocked vents would be a major issue.
Before I put ML on my rMBP I thought that the only way it could get any faster is if it could read my mind. I think Apple has figured out how to do that as it is noticeably faster, with no lag that I can see anywhere.
Then you must be one of the lucky ones. Our store's rMBP has lag everywhere, and judging by the state of this section of our forums + Apple's own support communities, I'm not the only one who sees it and thinks its just plain awful.
Years away? Weeks maybe, perhaps even a month or two before retina apps appear. Again you're guessing and purposely making your guesses long. How long did it take for developers to begin putting retina apps on the IOS App store. Weeks, not years.
The Retina apps coming quickly for iOS made perfect sense. Those are much less expensive devices that millions of people can afford and have. The rMBP is a VERY expensive item made for a VERY small percentage of users. Why would a developer spend more money on making an app for the rMBP, when it has the smallest user base? Maybe when we get Retina iMacs and cheaper rMBP's, but for now, I can't see it happening at all.
Since Apple has not deemed me worthy enough to send me a breakdown of the pricing of my rMBP, I have no idea as to what the pricing of the SSD in the unit is. And I don't believe that anyone outside of the walls of 1 Infinite Loop has any idea either. A couple of million people think don't think that this is very important either.
Storage is very important, especially in a computer where upgrading your storage is not an easy task and requires special tools and custom SSDs. In the Airs it doesn't bother me as much, that is a low level consumer product. But this is super high end professional hardware we are talking about, and true professionals need the expandability and upgrade-ability. That's the reason the Mac Pro still exists
Coming from a black Macbook I have to admit that I've not used the newer style Macsafe connector, but I see nothing "crappy ass" about the T-Style. It works very well and certainly not any excuse not to use it.
Go ahead, set your rMBP on your lap with the power cord in. Or in a tight space. Or move it around. The T-Style was awful. So awful that it wore down much too quickly and there was a very successful lawsuit against Apple for it.
Making the Magsafe 2 a T-Style would be like Ford putting the Pinto 3dr back into production without making a single change to it's fuel system. Bad idea all around.
You do realize that this is a "Laptop" therefore "Mobile" computer and therefore you don't need to plug it in except when charging it, right? At other times you wouldn't even see it.
When doing intense work on it, you want it plugged in or else you get around an hour and a half out of it. These are technically "Portables", meaning it has full features, but is much easier to carry. They even ditched the term "Laptop" because putting a newer portable in your lap screams of burning legs, then a lawsuit
For me it came down to getting a base rMBP, or a base cMBP + 8GB RAM + 180GB SSD, and the rMBP lost hands down to the cMBP. The lightness of the rMBP was the only advantage I could see, and even then it's not a major difference.
