Apple's Retina Macs: A little too elite?

Re: Apple has to be ahead of the curve

How ironic that the iMac they are selling is last year's model for this year's prices.

Re: Apple has to be ahead of the curve

One post made up entirely of gushing over a new product. Hmmmm...

Re: There's certainly room in the Retina Macs for both.

There def isn't enough room.

Infact, there's such little room the flash storage and ram is soldered in, and cant be swapped. any spare room has been filled with batteries, which from the pics would appear to be approx 50% of the insides.

Re: Stills too

HDD size can't be your problem when you're using a white macbook, same with RAM and CPU.

Re: Apple want to make a killing on overpriced external drives.

Interesting. Apple don't make any external drives, so how exactly do they make a killing on them? And how are external drives for Macs overpriced when the drives actually work on both Macs and PCs and are sold by competing suppliers? Is there an external drive cartel, with agents in the field switching price tags when they intuit that you are a Mac owner?

Re: Apple kit really is a mugs game these days.

Ex Apple fanboi (me) states as fact: Apple hardware has been a Mug's game since System 7

Once you understand a GUI is a GUI and you can work all flavours of them you immediately save 30 to 40% on the hardware and about 100% in the 'iNob' stakes.

Re: Stills too

> Apple want to make a killing on overpriced external drives.

But Apple don't make external drives.

Re: Ugh

Of course you can fit a third party SSD that has the new connector, but yeah that's probably too much thinking to ask from a troll.

Re: Ugh

Not really.... if you don't like the product, or it's not suitable, don't buy it.

An incredibly small percentage of people actually care about this sort of thing, your average joe has no concept that a hard drive can be upgraded to a larger one. So it really, honestly, makes no difference at all.

Re: Ugh

There's 6 extra pins in the new connector so it's likely they'll have some useful purpose that couldn't be met with the old one.

OWC already said they'd have a third party SSD for these models.

Re: Ugh

What absolute mug downvoted this? Who thinks it's a good idea to make computers non user serviceable?

Re: Ugh

@AC 13-Jun-12 08:57

FFS, Don't like it, don't buy it!

Simples!

Re: Ugh

If you read the article you'd see that Apple has changed connections before when there's a benefit and I suspect you will see third party drives. Not that most people are going to care.

Re: Samsung

its certainly a lot of money. But it's also a lot of machine.

For some people it's going to be for show, like jewelery. (whats the point in diamonds, they are just rocks?)

For some people, its the excitment of having the cutting edge in terms of tech, which this certainly would appear to be.

For some people, its not a lot of money, and its a nice laptop.

For some people, that new display is going to be brilliant addition to their computer lives. (i know photo reviewing on my ipad3 is amazing, thanks to that screen. Really amazing.)

Re: Samsung

Because of the performance, the portability, the OS..... none of the which the Samsung does to a comparable level.

I'm writing this on a 6 year old Mac laptop, that's running the latest OS extremely well.... your average six year old windows laptop could probably just about still manage XP with SP3 installed.

Re: Samsung

In my case, it's the screen.

My current machine is a ThinkPad T61p 14.1" 4:3 motherboard, in a T60 15.0" 4:3 chassis, with a IDTech IAQX10N 2048x1536 15.0" IPS panel.

I've got it maxed out at a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo - slower than today's low-end CPUs, and a high-end quad core will blow it out of the water - and 8 GiB RAM. It has a Quadro FX 570M, which is slower than Sandy Bridge integrated graphics - so in 2012, it's a joke.

This is the most powerful machine that can run this screen, due to chassis changes, too. But, I refuse to downgrade on the screen - it's so much easier to work with stuff when I can have everything on screen at once (I have good eyesight).

Finally, someone came out with something with higher pixel count, reasonable (for me) density, and IPS. It happened to be Apple, and the bastards seriously hurt expandability of the machine, but I'll still be getting one because it meets my needs better than my five year old frankensteined ThinkPad.

Granted, Apple did hide the options to get the desktop area of a 2880x1800 normal Mac, but I'm guessing it won't be long before someone finds the hidden switch, and if nobody does by the time I get one, I'll go looking for it myself, if I decide to run OS X as my main OS. (A Japanese site showed that it can be done in Windows easily (just set the display to 2880x1800), so I'm good to go on Windows.)

Re: Samsung

And I struggle to understand why anyone would buy a Samsung Chronos series 7. But luckily when people buy things they like it doesn't affect me so who cares?

Re: External

External is the way to go - even with a laptop hard drive. We use 2TB LaCie drives plus one or two 23' external monitors. The laptop itself really just holds the software, does the processing and uploads to the online storage system. It also helps to have a portable system to carry to meetings, demos and to show your mother her old 8mm movies when you have transferred and edited them ;-)