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Gonna spend the extra $200 for 16GB or trust that 8GB of ram ought to be enough for everyone? 256GB should be enough too, since its just a laptop. Besides, in a few years when the battery's dropped to under 3 hours you're just going to have to get a new one anyway since its non-replaceable.

I've never seen any battery drop more than 10% of its capacity over ~5 years, bar one IBM Thinkpad that only lasted 10 minutes unplugged; but that's because its former owner used it often but only plugged in.
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Aside from the fact that standard models are not going to be popular buys, because otherwise they're just regular ol' macbook pros and you know how people get with Apple's "newest innovation" like a ridiculous resolution on a laptop...


For now.
How long will it take for them to remove those ethernet ports or put soldered RAM from the standard macbook models?
Lets take a few steps back to the removable batteries. Apple offered the removable battery Macbook for only a year after making a newer model without it. Who is to say the same won't happen here after all the mindless people* buy into the new 'Retina' Macbook Pro for no reason.

* = By that, I do not mean people who actually acknowledge, care about, or recognize the benefits of pixel density and the few/far between benefits of the newer model. Such as OCN people. I mean the morons who just buy things because they're told to, suckered into, or can ect. [not because they care] which is 3/4 of Apple's market.
Yeah but for your average consumer no ethernet port (or buying the adaptor) is perfectly fine. I'm talking about for a college where they want to buy large quantities of them, they can either buy the standard model or get the retina model plus the adaptor. Next year there will probably only be retina MacBook's, and no standard models.
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So what's the dead pixel policy?
I believe that has been posted in this thread.
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the point is whether a MACbook gets screwed very easily nd quickly? if no then whats the big deal with 'least repairable' issue ?
    
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Part of me wonders if Apple did this to stop people who bought aftermarket SSDs and ram for their MBPs. I know a few of my friends and I did not pay for the expensive Apple upgrades.

Glad I wasn't the only one who was thinking this. Typical Apple.
 
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Don't forget the fact the you will need a apple time capsule or hard drive to back up your stuff because you will lost everything when its sent to apple if they replace the logic board or SSD. No more swapping hard drives now.
Although i will still buy it seens i already have both smile.gif
I have no idea what it is for the new high res 15". I haven't looked. Usually the policy is based on physical screen size and not actual resolution, but it's a set number of pixels in a range of screen sizes. I do not believe that info is public so I can't disclose it.
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I have no idea what it is for the new high res 15". I haven't looked. Usually the policy is based on physical screen size and not actual resolution, but it's a set number of pixels in a range of screen sizes. I do not believe that info is public so I can't disclose it.

I Think you have quoted the wrong person.

Is it not this you want meant to be quoting?
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So what's the dead pixel policy?
 
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I Think you have quoted the wrong person.
Is it not this you want meant to be quoting?
Yes, oops.
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It depends on what you're meaning, he meant cutting corners as in removing as much as possible for size; as opposed to removing a bit too much.
I'm definitely looking at a MBP...My Samsungs GPU performance is too meh for my tastes, the retina display is just awesome, half the games I play would run on OS X (I'd run it at a forth of the resolution, obviously for performance) and these actually look really good, especially since it would only cost me A$ 2,588.00 for the options I want; considering how much of an upgrade from my current laptop it is that's pretty decent.
Not to mention; who here uses more than 8GB RAM in a laptop? I _really_ want to know; the only upgrade I've done to my laptop is swap out the 2x2GB RAM sticks for 2x4GB and swap the HDD for an SSD, both of which this comes with stock.

Glueing in a battery is cutting corners. That is very sloppy work.

Not that most will care though.
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I personally really enjoy how apple is pushing the boundaries of engineering for aesthetics and performance. I love little computers. They cut just about every corner and sacrafice anything they can to make it just a little bit thinner and a little more efficient. Isn't OCN all about the persuit of extreme performance? A community that celebrates overclocking CPUs so hard they literally break, but condemns apple for selling the smallest possible computers that they can engineer? Sure its not for everybody, but it is certainly really cool.

That laptop is all looks though. You could get much better performance from different laptops for the same price, maybe less.
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Just pure trash.....

Just what I wanted to say.
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