To briefly sum up this thread:
- People saying buy now are all those who have already bought their rMBP and now realize they are beta testers with no optimized software the the entire internet looks like crap
- People saying wait are those that realise that the technology and support is far from perfect yet to run a retina display and by next year they will have ironed everything out and the price will come down.
rMBP is worthless until all these apps are retina ready:
Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects
Premiere Pro
Lightroom
Cinema 4D
Maya
ZBrush
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
You know, you can just ignore all the people the people saying that whatever Intel does for Haswell, the only real user-noticeable effect that we'll see is the battery and perhaps internal graphics (which is moot as anyone who needs the graphics will be running discrete), as we've pretty much started hitting the limits of what we can do with quad-core silicone processors. Also an important point is even if Haswell halves its battery usage, the computer still uses far more power on other parts than simply the processor.
And you can ignore all the people who look at the evidence and say that the technology in the RMBP works fine, and there are just a few software-based issues that need a bit of tuning.
But keep up with your false duality, it makes you sound good.
unfortunately thats an internet problem. next year when 4k screens are on every laptop, the internet will start to correct. its like the first HDTV i bought and every television station was in standard def and looked like garbage. i didnt return my set
While I agree the internet will adjust, idk when we'll see 4K screens. That's twice the number of pixels on an rMBP screen.
I was also in the same boat considering waiting for Haswell.
However, I then realized that Apple might not update the motherboard more than once a year, will they?
I could end up waiting way more than I really want to if they don't do an update.
While I doubt that Apple won't take the chance to try and suck the money from what will in reality most likely be a lackluster upgrade, there always is that chance.
Honestly, I don't get how people think that the IB->Haswell jump will be better than say the Haswell->Broadwell jump. Sure, Haswell's a "tock" and Broadwell's a "tick", but that's really Intel's marketing at work, as when you look at the preemptive specs, Broadwell's the much more ingenious of the two, as at 14nm it will both require a solution to quantum tunnelling AND has possibilities at an MCM design (which, while not earth-shattering, is still just about as impressive as anything that Haswell's going to offer).
Waiting for new processors for the sake of waiting for new processors is generally not a good idea, unless you're nearing the end of a cycle (and currently we're at the beginning).
