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3000 dollars? That's well above the price of the baseline model and even the one with the dedicated GPU, so somebody is clearly trying (and failing) to explain away their feeling of sour grapes. It's basically the same thing as people who drive Geo's, Saturn's or other budget cars and scoff at people driving European cars or non-budget brands.

It's also basically the same thing as the picture with an old 13" MBP and the text "$2000 facebook machine" that Windows fanboys like to post all the time.

I'm guessing you didn't read the OP? He clearly states the top model is 3k+ after taxes and apple care. I have a mac and it works fine for everything I use it for, why would I possibly want to throw away 3000 more if I don't need it? Why are you trying to push a supremely over priced computer on me?
 
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I'm guessing you didn't read the OP? He clearly states the top model is 3k+ after taxes and apple care. I have a mac and it works fine for everything I use it for, why would I possibly want to throw away 3000 more if I don't need it? Why are you trying to push a supremely over priced computer on me?

I don't think anyone is trying to push it on you. If you don't want it, that's fine.
 
I'm guessing you didn't read the OP? He clearly states the top model is 3k+ after taxes and apple care. I have a mac and it works fine for everything I use it for, why would I possibly want to throw away 3000 more if I don't need it? Why are you trying to push a supremely over priced computer on me?

The fact that you personally don't need it and consider it a waste of money doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else... Going "Oh personally I don't need ether of these" in a topic where someone is asking the question why someone would pick one over the other of the two is not adding anything to the topic. To me it just smells of someone craving for attention (in which case it's "mission accomplished").

To once again use a car analogy, the fact that you might only need a cheap hatchback because you've got well maintained asphalt roads leading up to everywhere you'd want to go, doesn't mean someone else might not need to travel back and forth across difficult terrain (like a tractor trail, forest or a muddy field) and actually have a genuine use for something expensive like a Land Rover. It's not like anyone in their right mind is going to head over to a discussion board for offroad enthusiasts and go on about how everyone's cars are useless because he/she doesn't have any use for one.
 
It's deceiving to look at pure specs.

Many improvements have been made since 2007 with Intel processors. The clocks have mostly stayed the same, but the performance has increase many times over.

If you compare the Mid 2012 rMBP to the Late 2013 rMBP (current), take the top end configuration for example: The former top end configuration has a 2.7GHz processor; the new one is 2.6GHz.

The latter even though has a lower base clock is a bit faster than the old one.

You can be sure Apple wouldn't move to a crappier processor for their highest end of computers.


Anyways I've owned every top-end configuration generation of MacBook Pros since 2007; they are definitely getting faster and faster.

As for people who think you don't need it, well that's just their opinion. For me if I save 5 minutes on one workload, combine that with a score of jobs a day, I just saved an hour to do something else if not to sleep. Can't put value on sleep.

I can have one I just don't feel the need to shell out 3k for something that has no use for me lol

Just because it has no use to you, doesn't mean it's useless to everyone.

My four year old Mac Pro is still faster than most of the computers that are sold on the market today. You can be sure it cost me a lot than $3000 ;)
 
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Thanks so much for all the help everyone. I'm not a techie by any means and "on paper" is really all I know how to get by on. The help you guys are giving is invaluable!

When I talked about the newer MBP, I meant the top of the line one with base specs.

But so what I'm gleaning from this is that despite the lower ghz and larger HDs, the newer one actually has a faster CPU and the HD runs much faster?

Newer technology processors will run at faster speeds with a lower ghz. rating. They are optimized better. The new PCI-e SSD storage is faster yes.
 
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