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The rMPB BTO Shipping Thread

This afternoon I cancelled my 2.6 maxed out Macbook pro order with apple that I placed right when apple store reopened on Tuesday since it wasn't going anywhere.
I placed an order for the 2.3 with B&H that will save me the tax and you get parallels 9 for free. They already charged my card so hopefully it's coming sooner, I can't stand using my 2009 anymore after waiting all summer for new macbooks.
Macmall has the base 2.3 512GB higher end model in stock in their Memphis, TN warehouse but I would have to pay tax so for me even with the 3% off deal B&H beats them.
I'm disappointed in apple not getting these out quicker.
 
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sarakn said:
Haha - u ordered the max. That's like buying a private plane after realizing you'd be traveling a lot.
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It isn't the maxed out version. I skipped the i7. Just the i5. Even so the i7 seems to be 2% to 5% faster. I hope the RAM maxed out makes sense. I initally ordered 8 GB but then was misguided by all the people here in the forum to get the 16 GB. I need the 1 TB SSD unfortunately as my checked on my current HD and I will not get it without to much sacrfice even close to 512. And then this laptop shall last 5-6 years, so....
 
macitude said:
True but I didn't say it you did.
:D

I went for the 2.3 16gb mem, 500gb drive with the nvidea 750 so I actually practice what I preach.
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:D I stuck with the 2.6 for my 13" because I prefer (slightly) better battery life and a cooler system over raw performance. For the stuff I do, I doubt it'd make much of a difference anyway.
 
macitude said:
My order said same and I'm happy that I canceled it.

Good Luck!
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I can wait 5-7 more days. I've been waiting since early this year for the Haswell update and I'm getting the exact model I want, fully maxed out.

To me you seem like a person who constantly switches lines in a supermarket to get checked out faster only to keep entering slower queues.

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CmdrLaForge said:
Wait a second. Isn't there a 2.6?
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There is a 2.6 and I ordered it (BTO).
 
tmiw said:
:D I stuck with the 2.6 for my 13" because I prefer (slightly) better battery life and a cooler system over raw performance. For the stuff I do, I doubt it'd make much of a difference anyway.
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Thanks so much for the piece of mind.

This thread is growing so extremely fast right now - looks like the new " Waiting for Haswell " thread. I guess waiting but in a better way :D :D

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Quu said:
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There is a 2.6 and I ordered it (BTO).
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Yes I saw that you maxed out! Congrats, it will be fantastic.
 
Quu said:
I can wait 5-7 more days. I've been waiting since early this year for the Haswell update and I'm getting the exact model I want, fully maxed out.

To me you seem like a person who constantly switches lines in a supermarket to get checked out faster only to keep entering slower queues.

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There is a 2.6 and I ordered it (BTO).
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Haha, I'm impatient with ordering but I had it since 2009.
A more likely supermarket scenario is I see everyone waiting on long lines and I walk to the furthest checkout where there is no line but the herd mentality doesn't bother look for it.
 
CmdrLaForge said:
Yes I saw that you maxed out! Congrats, it will be fantastic.
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:) I hope so.

I'm coming from a 2009 17" MBP (2.93GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 9600GT).

For me this is a huge jump. I did stick an SSD in my old 17" but it wasn't a high end model very slow 60GB thing so most of my apps and data were still on the 320GB drive.

I'm looking at several orders of magnitude increase in performance on everything. CPU, Graphics, Storage. Even the WiFi. I only had 300Mb/s N WiFi not even 450Mb like the newer models had. Now I'm getting 1.3Gb/s 802.11ac (I already have a 1.3Gb/s router and 130Mb/s internet access). For me this is a huge jump.

My old notebook served me great for 4.8 years I hope to get just as many years out of my new one.

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macitude said:
Haha, I'm impatient with ordering but I had it since 2009.
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I've had mine since February 2009. This is a huge update for me too, but again I have patience.
 
Quu said:
:) I hope so.

I'm coming from a 2009 17" MBP (2.93GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 9600GT).

For me this is a huge jump. I did stick an SSD in my old 17" but it wasn't a high end model very slow 60GB thing so most of my apps and data were still on the 320GB drive.

I'm looking at several orders of magnitude increase in performance on everything. CPU, Graphics, Storage. Even the WiFi. I only had 300Mb/s N WiFi not even 450Mb like the newer models had. Now I'm getting 1.3Gb/s 802.11ac (I already have a 1.3Gb/s router and 130Mb/s internet access). For me this is a huge jump.

My old notebook served me great for 4.8 years I hope to get just as many years out of my new one.

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I've had mine since February 2009. This is a huge update for me too, but again I have patience.
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I prefer to be cunning. :)

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PDFierro said:
Yeah, I just wasn't thinking logically. :eek:
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Spock is very disappointed in you.

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tmiw said:
Why can't we have nice things on this side of the world? :(
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Go USA!
 
Quu said:
You sacrificed getting the specification you wanted to maybe get it sooner by maybe 3 days? :p
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LOL

I was divided over the extra $200 for the speed bump anyways and I'm saving almost $300 not buying from Apple.

The Pro I tested is the top-of-the-line model: 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and Nvidia’s GeForce GT 750M graphics card with 2GB of memory. It’s a $2,599 machine, and appears to be utter overkill for everything I could possibly want to do. I gave up opening browser tabs to try and cripple the machine after about 50, and everything from 4K footage to iMovie ingestion and rendering happened faster even than I expected.

I've definitely used better gaming machines, but not many. I could make the frame rate on Bioshock Infinite dip below what I’d consider flawless levels, but even on the highest settings couldn’t make it do more than stutter a bit as I wandered about Columbia, shooting everything and everyone I could find. Portal 2 kept up beautifully as well, never doing more than dropping the occasional frame while I plotted and schemed against GLaDOS. The library of games available for OS X still trails Windows, so the hardest of hardcore gamers should look elsewhere, but everything I found ran beautifully.

For more normal uses, and more normal users, the standard 8GB of RAM should be plenty. And unless you’re a gamer, the integrated Iris Pro graphics should suffice as well. The graphics are embedded in Intel’s new Haswell processors, the latest-generation chip that promises better performance across the board. On the MacBook Pro, it certainly delivers: with a GeekBench score of 13,503, it’s considerably higher than the 11,969 that last year’s model scored, and a huge leap ahead of the MacBook Air’s 6,057. This is a hugely powerful machine, and it held up to absolutely everything I tested — and then to most of those things all at once. It resumes from sleep in about three seconds, and boots from dead in about 12. I can’t ask much more of any laptop, even a $2,599 one.
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http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/24/5024346/macbook-pro-with-retina-display-review-15-inch-2013
 
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