Lol, that's splitting hairs really.
It won't help your coding, heck if it did it would be marginally at best.
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Lol, that's splitting hairs really.
It won't help your coding, heck if it did it would be marginally at best.
Well that depends on how much you want to squint. Smaller text is still smaller. You wont get much more on your screen before its too small to read comfortably.
Sharper text I can sorta understand but the regular screen doesn't bother me anyways.
I was in a similar situation in that all I wanted was the CPU in the base model but needed the expanded space of the 512GB SSD. This is crap that you can't upgrade the base model to increased space and leave the 750GB SSD as the upgrade for the higher end retina model.
I have the education discount plus free $100 itunes card so I went ahead and ordered the $2799 model and basically got $300 off that price. Expensive, but I will definitely be using it a ton over the next year so i can swing it.
Lets cross our fingers for no revision A problems though!
I have the education discount plus free $100 itunes card so I went ahead and ordered the $2799 model and basically got $300 off that price. Expensive, but I will definitely be using it a ton over the next year so i can swing it.
Lets cross our fingers for no revision A problems though!
I just ordered mine.
Retina Pro, 2.6GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Grand total came to the equivalent of $2700.
No free iTunes card here unfortunately.
Retina Pro, 2.6GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Grand total came to the equivalent of $2700.
No free iTunes card here unfortunately.
I was tempted by the 16GB RAM since it is soldered on and I am stuck with 8GB now, but I have never seen slow downs on my older MBP with 8GB and it is HDD based. So I am hoping that 8GB with a SSD should be lightning fast (plus its 1600MHz rather than 1333). You can't go wrong with 16GB though if you have the coin.
I was tempted by the 16GB RAM since it is soldered on and I am stuck with 8GB now, but I have never seen slow downs on my older MBP with 8GB and it is HDD based. So I am hoping that 8GB with a SSD should be lightning fast (plus its 1600MHz rather than 1333). You can't go wrong with 16GB though if you have the coin.
I was actually surprised at the cost of the RAM upgrade, knowing Apple it should have cost $120000 and three arms but $200 is actually decent imo.
Pair the fact that the edu discount actually chops a few bucks off the upgrade and I felt it was reasonable.
The 2.7GHz upgrade is a ripoff though, I doubt you'll ever feel $250 worth of performance over the 2.6.
2,880 x 1,800 resolution on a 15" screen? Everything is going to be insanely tiny. Why would you want this? I have perfect if not near perfect vision, and the 1920x1200 is too small on my 17". Your icons and text are going to be ridiculously tiny. Don't mean to ruin the parade, but correct me if I'm wrong.
I'd agree with you there. I would have to go back and look for the specifics but I remember that the benchmarks for the 2011 MBPs showed hardly any difference between the 2.2 Quad Core i7 SB and the 2.3 when it was the BTO option. It's definitely a sucker upgrade. The only upgrade I really wanted was that 750GB SSD
It's pixel doubling so text and UI elements are going to remain the same size as they are on a normal Pro screen, just clearer.
I'd agree with you there. I would have to go back and look for the specifics but I remember that the benchmarks for the 2011 MBPs showed hardly any difference between the 2.2 Quad Core i7 SB and the 2.3 when it was the BTO option. It's definitely a sucker upgrade. The only upgrade I really wanted was that 750GB SSD
Hopefully the 2.6 actually shows some performance gain over the 2.3! 300MHz increase, that's three times better than the 2.6 to 2.7 upgrade!
Sucks that Apple won't let you add larger drives to the base model, as that's the one I'd have gone for tbh. It's the same way with the Air though.
Seriously? Did you just move back into society after a decade long trip to the rain forest?
Does amazon usually do this? If so that would be really nice to get it for 2000 with no tax, as apples student discount + tax basically takes it back up to the normal price anyways.
I do hope I can run the screen to a larger resolution. I wonder how Final Cut Pro X looks in this screen. I have a work MBP 15" which it's 1440x900 screen is so hard to see everything without a second monitor.
Disagree..
Not sure if you're a developer, but sharpness of text has a lot of effect on eye strain. You don't want the text to be too small of course, but the retina display helps with headaches and stuff.
Please let us know if you are able to do this. I'm in the same same boat and would rather buy from tax-free Amazon (and forego the gift card).
I won't lie that I feel slightly misled. Phil says it ships today and I (crazily) expected it to ship today only to find out it ships in 5-7 days!? I am hoping this is simply a estimate to make us feel good when it ships tomorrow but I am aggravated if it takes that long.
So aggravated that I will continue to buy Apple products for many years