Top reasons you bought the 2012 rMBP over the 2012 MPB? Regrets?

[Lvivske]

people use these?

I don't know what I'll do without a Kensington lock, oh noez

 

[frozi]

It supports it. This is my early 2011 MBP and you can see 16GB is running fine. In fact, it's running at the RAM's rated speed of 1600MHz which it wasn't supposed to do either (the max speed that the Sandy Bridge MBPs officially supported was 1333MHz).

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ahh you just put some interesting info in my head. Now i am confused what to buy again

 

[Reimer]

2) SSD drive (cheaper than regular MBP if you go with SSD)

Yep. I spec'd out an equivalent non-retina, and was surprised to see a higher price. So really, my hd space regret is not a valid retina specific regret, as I'd have made the same trade off had I went with non-retina.. even though I'd have had a choice in that trade off with the non-retina. Speed over space. Once you go SSD, it's hard to go back.

The advantage though is the ability to install a much cheaper SSD alongside the regular spindle drive via the superdrive bay in the non-retina.

512GB SSD is a good compromise but $600 upgrade is tough to swallow.

 

[photosaurus]

The advantage though is the ability to install a much cheaper SSD alongside the regular spindle drive via the superdrive bay in the non-retina.

512GB SSD is a good compromise but $600 upgrade is tough to swallow.

Good point that I hadn't thought of. I couldn't even swallow the 512GB upgrade. Had I gone with the regular MBP, I still wouldn't have swallowed it either, but I would have had the option of adding it later when I could... and at a cheaper price per gig.

But, on the other hand, I think I still need to invest in a good external RAID either way. 256 should be plenty to have on board as long as I keep myself properly organized. Had I gone 512, I'd feel better.. but the cost was just too high. I calculated it as follows:
- Optional: 80 gigs for bootcamp windows and a couple of games installed at any one time.
- 6 months worth of photos: 100 gigs rough est.

That would leave me 60 gigs for OS and installs, and require me to archive my photo library every 6 months or so.

I may or may not bootcamp windows. I've got a desktop for games, and that's all I'd use windows for. It would just be cool to have, but certainly not 600 bucks cool.... if I'm going to spend 600 bucks to game, I'd be much wiser to buy a new graphics card for my desktop.

 

[DVD9]

Is this a serious thread? How could anyone in their right mind buy a 2012 MBP over the Retina model at this point?

If Apple had cut $400 off the price then I could see people going for the old design, but with this price structure it's either the Air or the Retina.

 

[Lvivske]

If Apple had cut $400 off the price then I could see people going for the old design, but with this price structure it's either the Air or the Retina.

Exactly. I ordered one of these, but my brother is having the above dilemma - but after pricing everything out, its about $450 to upgrade from the Air and receive a 15" Retina display & quad core processor, which he figures is a no brainer

...the 13 and 15" MBPs aren't even a remote consideration.

 

[Pipper99]

I'd regret having purchased the non retina version. I love my retina pro!

 

[FluJunkie]

No Kensington lock.

I'm of the opinion that the "standard design" Macbook Pro is a perfectly valid purchase to make, for a number of reasons.

However, a Kensington lock is not one of them. Your laptop is not secure because you have something that can be unlocked with a scrap of cardboard toilet paper roll attached to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as-CPdf-rKI