1. My iPad 2 must have the world's longest life span in Apple terms.
2. I was thinking a friend's kid who just bought the iPad mini probably should have waited. Well, it turns out she made the right move, because the mini remains, and she couldn't have afforded the iPad mini Retina so she would have bought the mini anyway.
3. The MacBook Air 13" is now almost superfluous. The Retina Pro 13" is where it's at.
4. I'm glad I didn't rush to sell my 2009 13" MacBook Pro non-Retina, as I kinda needed it, and the Pro with optical drive still remains, at the same price. I might buy the new Retina 13", and then will try to convince my wife to sell her white MacBook, so we keep the 13" non-Retina Pro as the kitchen computer. The white MacBook has a poor screen, and goes into vacuum cleaner mode with HD video. Also, the white MacBook is stuck with 10.6. My non-Retina Pro has Mavericks 10.9 on it already.
5. What does having an Intel Iris non-Pro mean for responsiveness? I don't game, but don't want to suffer in Retina.
I am in almost the exact same situation as you, and yes, the 13" rMBP is nearly the perfect fit for me. However, I'm fine with the 8 GB 256 GB model. I'm currently using a Samsung 120 GB SSD in my 2009 with 4 GB.Hmm. The 13" rMBP seems like a nearly perfect laptop, and very fairly priced in its base configuration, but I would still have to pay $1,799 to get one with 512GB in SSD, which is what I'm used to with my current mid-2009 13" MBP with Crucial M4. As such, I will soldier on with my 4+-year-old MBP, which remains the best computer I've ever owned.
Yeah, same. Although I just read that the official spec isn't "under 3 pounds", it's actually 3.46 pounds:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2056572/retina-macbook-pro-gets-major-overhaul.html
So really it's 0.11 ounces lighter and 0.04" thinner than the previous model, not a super huge difference after all :\
In case people are having a hard time deciding between the iPad mini retina and the air, remember that the PPI is much better on the mini.
326 ppi vs 264 ppi.
Just food for thought. I've made up my mind already.
£160 to go from 8GB to 16GB, serious APPLE TAX
Hmmmm...
The 512GB rMBP is a decent amount more expensive...
Koing
In case people are having a hard time deciding between the iPad mini retina and the air, remember that the PPI is much better on the mini.
326 ppi vs 264 ppi.
Just food for thought. I've made up my mind already.
RAM is expensive now and this is PCIe SSD.
Point 5 is very valid. It can't be worse than the HD4000 in the non haswell 13 rMBP right?
Koing
Doesn't seem like enough of a difference to be a major factor but it would be interesting to compare them side by side.
-KeithP
Ram isn't that expensive.
16GB for £130-150, but they are taking away the 8GB that I would have bought anyway, so that is at least £40-50. Hmmm...doesn't seem too bad then the difference being £100 and they are charging me £160 for the upgrade.
PCIe SSD Hmmmm...any reason why they are much more expensive then normal SSDs apart from the interface it's surely the same memory chips right?
Koing
RAM is expensive now and this is PCIe SSD.
Point 5 is very valid. It can't be worse than the HD4000 in the non haswell 13 rMBP right?
Koing
I agree that the RAM upgrade is expensive. PCIe SSDs is twice as fast at r/w compared to regular SATA3 SSDs.
That's just because of the difference in the interface. The only thing that would make the PCI-E SSD more expensive is that they aren't that common.