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What is the biggest issue you have with the new MBP?

  • Price

    Votes: 124 62.3%
  • Ports (in general)

    Votes: 40 20.1%
  • Keyboard

    Votes: 23 11.6%
  • RAM limitation

    Votes: 24 12.1%
  • No USB

    Votes: 14 7.0%
  • No SD Slot

    Votes: 12 6.0%
  • Magsafe gone

    Votes: 39 19.6%
  • Processor/Speed

    Votes: 8 4.0%
  • GPU

    Votes: 5 2.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 6 3.0%

  • Total voters
    199
In this day and age, I think if you're going to invest in a premium 15" display, it should support 4k. That said, I'm sure it will be gorgeous. Looking forward to moving from my 11" 2013 Mac Air screen to the latest, greatest, and largest laptop screen Apple offers.
 
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here are the absolute upgrade prices. 675$ for 1TB SSD (discounted from 1020$) vs. 800$ for Apple, just like I quoted above. Sufficient enough for you?

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Lenovo: $60 to go from 16GB to 32GB RAM. That's less than Apple from 8GB->16GB, is it not?
We can play games on 'absolute match' between Lenovo and Apple, as you're showing a second drive vs upgrade pricing from the other, but will leave it as - it remains competitive on Lenovo, not so much on Apple's side.
 
Lenovo: $60 to go from 16GB to 32GB RAM. That's less than Apple from 8GB->16GB, is it not?
We can play games on 'absolute match' between Lenovo and Apple, as you're showing a second drive vs upgrade pricing from the other, but will leave it as - it remains competitive on Lenovo, not so much on Apple's side.
rMBP 15" doesn't even have a 8gb option, it's 16GB for all configuration. Thinkpad uses 4 SODIMM slots, so it's really hard to compare. but I agree, DDR4 RAM upgrades discounts are awesome.

but huge part of the cost comes from 1TB/2TB SSD and therefore pricing in absolute terms for different SSD matter a lot more. See, I'm not even comparing the drives performance here
 
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