This product isn't "9 months old", it wasn't released in March. The clock starts ticking when the supply chain is fully locked and loaded, that's August of this year.
Well, no. You don't get to decide when "the clock starts ticking". I had my rMB delivered to my door on April 18th, so my MacBook is turning exactly 1 year in less than 3 months.
boltjames said:Heretofore every Apple notebook released in the market was predicated on performance.
How do you come up with this stuff? Ever heard of First Gen MacBook Air? I used to own one - the thing was a 3 year step backward in terms of performance. Thinness was the one and only selling point of MBA. But yet, Apple had steadily updated its performance year after year. There is nothing unique about rMB 12" in this regard.