Who ordered the new Retina MacBook Pro?
 

I know there's got to be a handful of you. Who's ordered one so far?

The specs on this machine have me drooling... 2880x1800 IPS display. Holy fucking crap.

i love it! i want one!!

i'll wait till that display comes on a windows machine for half the price ;)

Mac users are all hipster wankers

And Porsche drivers are douches, BMW drivers are pricks, and people who live in 20,000 sq foot homes are "greedy".

We can't all be like you.

My main (windows) laptop died on me 2 weeks ago (after 6 years of heavy usage, I can't complain), and have been waiting to see what they came up with.

but at 2300 euro for the base model ... I'm not willing to pay that kind of money LOL

I don't really understand why people need a retina display on a 15" laptop, even for photo editing ... don't those people hook their laptop up on some 27"+ external IPS screen when they want to get some work done properly?

When we talk about products like these, we're not talking about "need". If it was need we were talking about, we'd all go and buy $300 Acer notebooks with Celeron processors from Walmart. We'd all drive Ford Festivas, and live in 400 sq foot homes made by Ikea. In this case, actually when it comes to any Apple product... we're talking purely about personal indulgences, and self satisfaction.

2880 x 1800 15" IPS display gives you 220ppi. It's the pixel density that makes it absolutely gorgeous. The 27" display looks great too, but it's a lower resolution and a MUCH lower pixel density.

So yeah, nobody "needs" it... But I certainly will love owning one.

Ha @ people still hanging onto Windows.

i'm really happy with my hp dreamcolor display on my laptop - colors look exactly as if you would print them :)

Thank you ... I think.

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Using Windows on purpose is like eating McDonalds instead of healthy food because it gets you just as full for cheaper.

I just bought a new 17" macbook a few months ago so I'll be waiting a while. It sits closed most of the time with three monitors plugged into it, so the retina screen wouldnt really benefit me much except when I travel and take the macbook with me. It does have some impressive specs though.

I ordered one

No 17 inch? Fuck that.

I'd be really wary of these ultra high resolution displays just yet as they scale video playback so badly.

I love all things Apple but I really don't want this machine. I would much rather have a desktop with that kind of resolution than a laptop. I'm willing to bet that Apple will be coming out with desktop machines like iMac's with these super-screens, or monitors & video card upgrades for their Mac Pro machines. I'll wait until then.

What I really wish they would do is release SIRI for the Mac. Apple has a new operating system out in July but no siri.

I personally can't be bothered spending 5x the amount of money for the same hardware - minus the retina display in this case - that PC's use.

Mac's use the same intel processors that PC's use; the same RAM; flash storage != ssd and sucks imho and is also the same as used in cheap netbooks. Sure, their motherboards are 'custom' but that's generally only the form factor as - the last time I checked - the company who manufactures them also manufactures PC motherboards. The hard drives are the same, as are the video cards... pretty much everything but the chassis and software are nothing but severely overpriced PC parts.

At least you admit you buy Apple because you like it and not come up with some stupid excuse like most. :thumbsup

You need to pay better attention. :1orglaugh

All that power and such a small screen size.

The 2048 x 1536 resolution iPad looks certifiably incredible... and that's when viewing 1280 x 720 video, or 1920 x 1080 video and I'm one seriously picky fucker when it comes to scaling problems.

We have a 46" Samsung LED LCD that also scales perfectly... even SD looks as it should.

I think the scaling issues you're referring to are ones of first and second generation LCD's...

It's really the only reason anyone should buy anything. :thumbsup

No external cinema display with retina is a huge bummer. 27" retina + new mbp would have been a bad ass combo.

I want an imac so bad. Maybe when I actually make a decent amount one month I will splurge and pick one up. I run windows mostly but I do like mac. I guess everyone has there "things". It can't be bad though is all I'm saying. :)

whats the display size on this machine?

15" everything must look so tiny in that resolution

They're scaling 2x all the applications and OS so there's no change in size. You can size the icons and text down depending on how good your vision is. :) But you definitely don't have that option on a lower res monitor without everything looking like crap...

I've ordered one. It's a no brainer really.

To all you Apple haters. The next Apple OS is going to be $20. How much is the best version of Windows ?

I use Apple products because they are better than anything else on the market and I want the best.

OS X is based on Unix (BSD). I not only have the most intuitive GUI there is but I can open a terminal window and have the full power of Bash and Unix at my finger tips. I don't need extra programs to do something as basic as be able to ssh into a server.

Windows sucks. It's a lousy product and I have no understanding why people persist with it. Windows conforms to almost no commonly accepted computing standard, it does things it's way which is stupid because as a user, I want to do things my way.

If you use Windows because it's better for you fine, but don't hate Apple out of misunderstanding, it makes you look ignorant.

Thats great feature

I was about to then I saw it only came in 15.4".. I want 13 :(

Freaking awesome quote! I'll be stealing it!

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

B&H is taking pre-orders now, but I'm more likely to pick up an iPad w/ Retina :thumbsup

Actual thread title:
"Who's a douche-bag lemming?"

The only valid section of your post.

Really?!? Apple products are (sometimes) well worth the money but that quote reminded me of the dumbest crap users would say at the height of the fanboi era :2 cents:

Speaking of ignorant... the only thing "better" that you are paying for is the software. Apple uses the same hardware as everyone else. It never ceases to amaze me that people who stand behind apple as the 'superior' product do not realize this simple fact.

And yes, I agree, OS X is by far better than windows. But that's where Apple superiority ends. And the reason an upgrade to the next version is only $20 is because 1. it's only available for mac and 2. they already raped your face on the cost of the hardware.

I mean, seriously...
$250 upgrade cost for 0.1Ghz more processor speed
$200 for 8GB more RAM
$500 for an additional 256GB of flash storage - mind you, flash storage != ssd

And those prices are in addition to the already insane price of $2,799

Hate to break it to you guy but Apple laughs it's way to the bank every time someone buys one of their products because at the end of the day, you're using nothing but a PC with a Mac label on it.

I mean, why do you think it's so easy to run OS X - with unmodified kernels these days - on more modern PCs? Here's a hint: because they use the same hardware.

Now, as stated above, I think OS X is far and away better than windows, so I'll give you that. I personally run linux anyway because I'm not so great at fixing dsdt's in order to have my machine run OS X as best it can - ran in to higher than average cpu temps - but if ever comes the day when Apple officially endorses OS X on PC's then I think windows will be short of doomed. Then again, they'd just charge an insane amount for the windows version, and smarter people would still use the 'hackintosh' methods anyway...

Want! I have my iMac, but I find myself constantly gravitating towards the mobility of a laptop... This would be kind of perfect.

I don't hate Apple. It's the arrogance of the Apple user I hate.

I've used everything from windows 3.11 to win7, beos, solaris, tons of linux distros, tons of window managers, free, net and openbsd,... and macos... And imho the least intuitive ui I've ever encountered is the one Macos uses.

When I see macbooks, I see great screens, great batteries and a lousy interface. The lousy interface doesn't really have to be a problem. I could always install another OS on there, but I still won't consider buying a macbook for 2 reasons:
- Apple's attitude towards its distributors and other companies.
- The look-I'm-superior attitude of a small but very vocal and visible group of Apple users.

Of course not every Apple user is an arrogant brainwashed puppet and of course everyone is free to use whatever he wants to use. I personally would never want to run the risk of being a associated with their fanboys.

Sure, except everybody else completely ignore design when it comes to building their systems, or alternatively they now release Ultrabooks which fall into Intel's Ultrabook design reference with a few tweaks here and there.

I don't care that an Apple machine costs me more, the devices are typically of excellent design and this is important to many users. Little things do make a difference. An example is the magsafe connector, it's saved my Macbook Pro many times. The Unibody enclosure, which nobody has come close to matching, ensures that my computer is pretty safe when thrown around baggage carousels or on the back of the motorbike, or backpack. There are many little things about Apple design that I appreciate.

On the internals, there are other quality issues. A friend of mine as a gorgeous Ultrabook, with a noisy fan, he's taken it back and had it replaced and compared with others using the same machine, all the fans in that model are noisy. I don't hear my Macbook Pro ever. Again little things like that make a difference to me.

Sure, other manufacturers may adopt some of these features, but I don't want to wait for compromise.

On the OS, sure people run Hackintosh but I run a business, there are stiff penalties for pirating software or not complying with license terms. It's essential for any business to survive a surprise audit by the BSA if one should ever occur.


The eco system suits me also, the ease of software delivery and licensing via the App store has greatly simplified our life. Upgrades of all of our software (bar a couple of titles) are automatic and apply to every machine at the same time. Windows has nothing like it.

If others are happy using "the same hardware" from other manufacturers that's fine, however that other hardware wont legally run OS X so that's useless for me. OS X is reason enough to use a Mac over other Windows.

I dont buy over-priced fashion gadgets... it makes no sense.