Roundup: Hands-On Impressions of the New Retina MacBook Pros

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Why such difference??

Why is the 15" Macbook £600 pounds more expensive in the UK than in America???? I know there is like £300 VAT, but what about the other £300?

 

[BigMacAttack57]

No 13 rMBP With Iris Pro ?? I'm Bummed

I'm a little bummed that AAPL didn't create a SKU that pairs a Haswell CPU (QC i7) + Iris Pro iGPU with the 13 rMBP form factor.

I'm an "upper-middle-of-the-roader". I don't usually go for the crazy top end of anything. I usually go one or two steps down from that, depending on the value proposition. I like the feature set of the rMBP SKU that is a 15 rMBP with the IPro iGPU only and 2.3 QC i7 / 16 / 512, but I'd like that feature set in the 13 rMBP form factor.

Given that they have Thunderbolt, I could eventually add an external large Tbolt display + kbd + mouse. A 13 rMBP like I "created" would be great to carry around, but powerful enough to carry a workload at home.

The Pd of the "bigger CPU + IPro iGPU", combined with the smaller battery that will fit inside a 13 rMBP, would probably prevent the SKU I "created" from meeting the run time expectations of this generation of rMBPs. It might also need two fans inside (fit problem).

Remind me - when is the 13 rMBP with Broadwell (14 nm) coming out ?? j/k - lol

BMA57

 

[edricrajput]

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