rMBP Early Adopters - About to Be Screwed by Resale Value?

[fskywalker]

Solution is easy: wait a little an buy used/refurbished !. I have purchased already 1 Mac mini, 2 MBP 13 inch, 3 15" rMBP and 2 13" rMBP and all have been either refurbished, used or deeply discounted; hurt less when it is time to sell them!

 

[prospervic]

Apple never makes their first revision the latest and greatest in hardware (and software).
They know the early adopters will buy it. And depending on the market they will up their product in the second rev.

I'm so TIRED of seeing this word used wrongly on Mac forums. (THIS IS FOR EVERYONE):

revision |riˈviZHən|
noun
the action of revising: the plan needs drastic revision.
• a revised edition or form of something.

The initial release of a new product CANNOT be a "FIRST REVISION". It's a First VERSION!

-- end of rant

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Solution is easy: wait a little an buy used/refurbished !. I have purchased already 1 Mac mini, 2 MBP 13 inch, 3 15" rMBP and 2 13" rMBP and all have been either refurbished, used or deeply discounted; hurt less when it is time to sell them!

+1!
And if you buy the empty Mac boxes available on Ebay, it makes the selling much easier.

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Solution is easy: wait a little an buy used/refurbished !. I have purchased already 1 Mac mini, 2 MBP 13 inch, 3 15" rMBP and 2 13" rMBP and all have been either refurbished, used or deeply discounted; hurt less when it is time to sell them!

+1!
And if you buy the empty Mac boxes available on Ebay, it makes the selling much easier.

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Prediction: 15" rMBP starts with 512GB SSD with possible $200 price drop tomorrow.

One or the other, but not likely to be both.

 

[akdj]

Three years on at my age and my eyesight will be the bigger problem

Even better reason to invest in a high resolution (retina) display!

I don't think we are screwed by the resale but more by the current problems with the unit.

Problems? Mine is issue free...as is my wife's. We both have samsung screens and SSDs. If you have a 'problem' why not have it serviced? It's a one year warranty and your signature line says you have IR. So did mine, three months after purchase. I brought it to the Apple Store at 10am on Wednesday and Thursday they called me at 2pm. New Samsung display. No issues since. It's an incredible machine. No challenges at all with my wife's now one year old rig....and we use them 8-12 hours a day...video and audio production.
What exactly are your 'problems'?

Apple never makes their first revision the latest and greatest in hardware (and software).
They know the early adopters will buy it. And depending on the market they will up their product in the second rev.

example: iPad mini could already have been released with the new a6x processor, if they can fit that in an iPhone why not in an iPad mini.

their first rev is always for the 'I need to get that gadget' crowd. It only gets interesting from the second rev. especially for resellers value.

There's never been an A6x processor in a phone. Only the iPad 4. Significantly larger than the mini. I'm not sure you understand the idea of 'revision'
** oops...you've already been corrected.
As well, Apple DID go all out with this first version. Best display on the market. An excellent GPU when it was released (essentially a 660m over clocked 650)--- the best mobile processors available from Intel and the ONLY OEM with a 768GB SSD as build to order.
Where did they skimp? USB 3? Twin Thunderbolt? HDMI? SD card slot? Incredible packaging and weight and build and trackpad, and, and ......
Don't get it.

To the OP, resale of computers shouldn't be a consideration at purchase. They're tools. That said, at least Apple WILL have a resale value. Try giving away a three year old Windows machine.

 

[MICHAELSD]

My $200 prediction was right. I don't feel too bad as a 15" owner since I bought mine for $1950 anyway but 13" owners must have some buyer's remorse.

 

[Ctrl2k]

Screwed? Hardly.

There's almost nothing in the new model worth running out to get (strictly talking about the 15" here). The speed of the machine is basically the same (or even slightly reduced, in the top line model). The 750M is only an imperceptible 10-15% faster than the 650M. The Iris Pro is in compute around the same speed as the old 650M but slower in things like gaming. But it's close.

Yes the new 802.11ac is nice and the faster SSD is a little more punchy. But even Apple isn't advertising any noticeable speed bumps on their page.

I would have run out for a few hours more battery and a 780M in there. But an hour more battery (which you can squeeze out from the older rMBP just by getting Mavericks on there), a faster SSD, and everything else the same basically? What's the point?

I am one of the first people to run out and upgrade if there are justifiable increases in speed or utility. The new rMBP 15" model offers none of that. You'd sell to pay for almost no appreciable difference in your day to day work.

The 13" on the other hand is a nice jump and really what that machine should have been in the first place. The Iris gfx are a good deal faster than the old HD4000, and the other jumps are nice add ons for a lower price. It's still spendy, but it's not slow anymore.