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Poll: will the rMB be your primary or secondary machine?

Will you be using the rMB as your primary or secondary computer?

  • The rMP will be my primary or only computing device

    Votes: 52 42.3%

  • The rMP will be a secondary mobile device.

    Votes: 71 57.7%
  • Total voters
    123
  • Poll closed .
Dubba said:
It's going to be my only machine, replacing my Mid-2011 13MBA i5.

Incidentally, my 13MBA replaced a 2008 13BlackBook, which was a replacement (from AppleCare) for a 2005 12PowerBook.

All said and done, this will be more than fine for anything I throw at it!

Small problem though... it is sitting at my brother's house in Chicago, and I don't get to the US until the 30th! :(

So, until then, this is all I have experienced with my new MacBook:
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Ah, the agony of waiting! Or just watch your brother unboxing it on YouTube....
 
The 12"Mac will be a secondary mobile machine for me as I have a beast of a 15" MBP that is the hub for everything.
Can't wait for the 12"Mac after having a play with it at the local Apple store today. What a beauty :)

Gav
 
TheBuffather said:
Surprised at the dichotomy here. It's hard for me to imagine this being anything more than a secondary machine unless all you do is browse webpages and perhaps use the new Photos app. Good to see, though, I suppose.
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honestly, that is how most of the world uses their laptops. basic task, the photo app, office suite.
 
Interesting that to date the poll is showing 40% (currently 38 people) will be using the rMB as their primary computer. I would have suspected the number to be lower.
 
It will be my primary work/corporate machine, but will be a part of my computing ecosystem.

  • Mac Mini: home media hub
  • Macbook: business productivity machine
  • iPad: Personal computing device (email, personal banking, web browsing, gaming, etc)
  • iPhone: Pocket sized personal/business computer...and phone :)
  • Apple TVs: home media access

Wife and two kids also have iPads as their personal devices. Wife has an iPhone as well, and a huge 6.5 lb 15" Dell Windows brick supplied by her school (Teacher).

So hard to really say what the MB will be to me. Primary work machine? Yes - It will replace my 2011 11" MBA I've got now that fulfils the same roll, so I will spend more time on the Macbook than any of my other devices, as I work and travel a lot. But definitely not my sole computing device. Will be my sole Laptop. Not my sole "PC" though.
 
maflynn said:
Interesting that to date the poll is showing 40% (currently 38 people) will be using the rMB as their primary computer. I would have suspected the number to be lower.
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I am in the secondary category but I'm finding the rMB so usable for the tasks that I need a laptop for that I'm seriously thinking about selling my 13" rMBP. The overlap is so large, and by the time I'm doing something that the rMB isn't going to do well I'm probably doing it on a desktop... I know that other people have different computing needs and preferred workflow, but I don't think I'm an outlier, either.
 
Secondary machine. A couple PCs (windows PCs and some MPros) at home/office pose as main machines for heavy lifting, the rMB will be my travel companion.
 
It will be my secondary machine for grad school and traveling. My new rMB will be replacing my Late 2010 13-inch MBAir (1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD). I have to admit that there is absolutely nothing wrong with my current MBAir and it performs everything I need it to do perfectly. At the same time, it's getting old, I want something new for school, and I'm giving it to my gf so it's staying in the family.

My Early 2011 13-inch MBPro (2.7 GHz i7, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD which is about a year old) will remain my primary machine or "home base" as I call it. It was the top of the line when I bought it back in 2011, and like my MBAir, it still performs everything I need it to do perfectly. I have it hooked up to a nice display, so it's better for multitasking. I don't plan on hooking my new rMB to an external display, at least not often. I will replace my MBPro when I'm done with school, if not before. I will probably go with an iMac as my current MBPro sits on my desk and is plugged in 99.99% of the time. Also, there's no reason I need two laptops.
 
It will be my primary computer. Coming from a 2011 11" MBA, it will be a nice upgrade. I travel about 50% of the time, so small size and low weight are top priorities.
 
Probably something closer to my tertiary machine.

I already have a Mac Pro (main) and iMac (backup) for important work and a 15" MacBook Pro for on the go work.

The MacBook is nice and small for travel when I don't need any work done, but otherwise it doesn't seem to do everything that well.
 
TheBuffather said:
Surprised at the dichotomy here. It's hard for me to imagine this being anything more than a secondary machine unless all you do is browse webpages and perhaps use the new Photos app. Good to see, though, I suppose.
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A lot of heavy lifting work can be delegated to servers depending on what field you work in. I have 6 ESXi servers in my basement running VMs that do all of my code compilation (https://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo), video conversion (handbrake on CentOS), and other process intensive work. All I need is something to setup configs/code/projects and a way to send it to the workhorse farm. So a computer of nearly any caliber with AnyConnect VPN and internet.
 
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