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6/13/12 at 11:00am
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Thankfully, Apple is known for having great customer service so the vast majority of customers will be replacing their Macbook Pro through Apple. This is only for people who want to upgrade afterwards. For those people, the only thing I have to say is, "Too bad? You knew what you were buying and if you didn't, that is still completely your fault."

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D: Well at least that answers the question as to whether it's user upgradable or not. Either way once I get the money I'm still going to buy one.

Yup. If you're buying Apple, you have to accept the pros and cons and not complain about it afterwards. smile.gif I will not be purchasing, but the repairability on these systems keep on going down.
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6/13/12 at 11:36am
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Problem is, I sit 6-8 inches from my laptop screen. I do the same with my phone. The MacBook Pro would have a lesser "visual" experience, which would conclude that it does not have a retina like display. Basically, its an over-hype.

Seeing as ergonomically you should be 15-30" away from the display to minimize eye strain and that most people do not sit with their faces glued to their monitors/displays, I would say that your issue sounds much more like a personal issue, than any over-hype by Apple. Please do not equate your computer usage habits with that of everyone else. thumb.gif
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6/13/12 at 11:41am
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Seeing as ergonomically you should be 15-30" away from the display to minimize eye strain and that most people do not sit with their faces glued to their monitors/displays, I would say that your issue sounds much more like a personal issue, than any over-hype by Apple. Please do not equate your computer usage habits with that of everyone else. thumb.gif

Sounds to me, like he has vision problems. 6-8" your face would get warm from the screen lol
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6/13/12 at 11:53am
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Sounds to me, like he has vision problems. 6-8" your face would get warm from the screen lol

And I can see the individual pixels on a 15" 1440x900 monitor from 6-8 inches and my vision is no where near perfect.
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post #355 of 420
6/13/12 at 12:05pm
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Amid all the fanfare with teh hardware updates, retina, it actually being rather competitively priced and what not, what made me the most giddy was the fact some smart designer finally got the idea to add actual vents to the darn thing... wonder why they didn't do the same with the non-retina models, there would be a big benefit there considering they've tended to run pretty warm.

I'm sure it went down in a similar fashion to this over a period of time in Cupertino CA...

Steve Jobs "darn people holding my iPhone 4 wrong"

Steve Jobs "The audacity!!! Hot laptop??? this isn't hot at all, I could withstand much higher temps than this!!! Wimps the lot of them!
muahahaha"

Tim Cook now in charge...

Tim to Jony Ivey & Engineering folks "Can we please do something to cool the laptop a bit better? I've found it quite toasty. Please???"

Jony Ivey looking at clay model of the unibody Macbook Pro, holding X-acto knife, and slashing at the model a few times ***slit, slit, slit, slit slit slit***

Jony to engineers "I R genius! biggrin.gif"

Engineers & Marketing all nodding & applauding Jony "We will sell millions"tongue.gif
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6/13/12 at 12:28pm
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And I can see the individual pixels on a 15" 1440x900 monitor from 6-8 inches and my vision is no where near perfect.

Why are you sitting so close to a 15" monitor? The whole "retina" specification is a function of viewing distance and pixel density... You don't have to have an Apple product to get the same effects. I understand that people in this thread are harping on the same nonsense just to bash anything-Apple, but lets not get carried away with marketing lexicon. You're sitting 6-8 inches away from a screen that you're supposed to be sitting 18-36" away from... I'm surprised you can't see molecular structure of the pixels.

This thing is nice and the resolution is great, but $2200 is too much money for my tastes. I would totally be satisfied with a 2056x1536 MBP, 4GiB DDR3L, and a 128GB SSD for $1500. Perhaps for a 13" MBP provided they're still making one?

OT: I love your Avatar wink.gif
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6/13/12 at 12:39pm
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Why are you sitting so close to a 15" monitor? The whole "retina" specification is a function of viewing distance and pixel density... You don't have to have an Apple product to get the same effects. I understand that people in this thread are harping on the same nonsense just to bash anything-Apple, but lets not get carried away with marketing lexicon. You're sitting 6-8 inches away from a screen that you're supposed to be sitting 18-36" away from... I'm surprised you can't see molecular structure of the pixels.
This thing is nice and the resolution is great, but $2200 is too much money for my tastes. I would totally be satisfied with a 2056x1536 MBP, 4GiB DDR3L, and a 128GB SSD for $1500. Perhaps for a 13" MBP provided they're still making one?

I don't I usually sit around 12-15 inches away from a 15" monitor. Right now I am using a 32" monitor @1920x1080 and I'm sitting 46" away from it. I also know you don't need an Apple product for the "retina" effect, I just want one because for me personally I don't want a gaming laptop or an underpowered ultrabook. Granted the MBP Retina costs a lot more than a normal ultrabook but I would still take it over anything else.

I'm sure they are going to make a 13" MBP Retina in a few months seeing as from what I have seen in public the 13" MBP is the most popular. I would say with those specs you have in the last sentence $1.5K would seem about right for a 13" MBP retina,
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6/13/12 at 1:22pm
Ugh... It's hard enough gaming on a 15" screen as it is... Can't imagine trying it at that resolution honestly.
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6/13/12 at 1:24pm
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Ugh... It's hard enough gaming on a 15" screen as it is... Can't imagine trying it at that resolution honestly.

If you buy one of these to game on then you're an idiot, especially at that res with a GT650m For $2.2K you can do so much better for a laptop to game on.
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6/13/12 at 1:39pm
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If you buy one of these to game on then you're an idiot, especially at that res with a GT650m For $2.2K you can do so much better for a laptop to game on.

I guess most people who use macs are idiots than as dam near every person who brings in a mac(inluding 3_ year old laptops) has steam installed.
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