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Nice but my next laptop will be some Chromebook + ElementaryOS rooted - if all you use is terminal/sublime and browser - Mac is a waste of money.
My wife was in a car crash about two years ago and, while the car was totalled, her MBP survived with exactly one scratch.
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Retina. Once you stop seeing pixels, it's painful to start seeing them again.
Ì'm waiting for the retina iMac/display, because working without external mouse and keyboard never worked for me (and 15" is probably too small for the desktop)
Why doesn't Apple ship MacBooks with optional anti-glare display anymore? Is a third party anti-glare matte screen protector useful? I would like to use the notebook outside too. Using the iPad outside on a sunny day strains the eyes.
For those of you who choose Pros over Airs; why does a Pro serve you better than an Air? Is it because it's your only machine, and you need the hardware to be beefy?
I'm impressed with the the 15inch retina starting specification. All the 15inch models come with 16GB of RAM for a starting price of £1,600. I always tell everybody if your doing graphical work or video production, get a desktop setup. The Intel isis pro GPU is more than enough for the work I do. extra £300 an average discrete mobile GPU on a laptop is not worth it.
I just got a Mac Book Air for similar price two days ago. Should I refund it and get these? Will apple refund it? When will these start shipping?
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For CUDA HPC work, you really need a desktop/server Linux machine that you can use remotely from your laptop. Only the highest end MBP has a discrete nvidia GPU.
Yes to the more reasonable px/performance of a desktop/server Linux backend for HPC. OTOH, if you were doing OpenCL instead of CUDA, the i5 would happily run that as an OpenCL target (albeit more slowly), so that you could do compilation/test dev on any newish laptop.
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Retina. Once you stop seeing pixels, it's painful to start seeing them again.
Ì'm waiting for the retina iMac/display, because working without external mouse and keyboard never worked for me (and 15" is probably too small for the desktop)
Why doesn't Apple ship MacBooks with optional anti-glare display anymore? Is a third party anti-glare matte screen protector useful? I would like to use the notebook outside too. Using the iPad outside on a sunny day strains the eyes.
> Why doesn't Apple ship MacBooks with optional anti-glare display anymore? Is a third party anti-glare matte screen protector useful? Because it was not of very high demand, plus it's awful for color accuracy and deep blacks, not to mention that it destroys a lot of the niceties of having a retina screen -- it's literary adding a diffusion material over your screen, that besides reducing glare also makes it more blu…
Working outside in nature (country side) or on a train/bus (next to a window), a glare display doesn't work well.
I like to work outside under the shadow of trees and the wind constantly blows through the leaves and shake them around.
A business notebook with mate display works fine in such conditions and the colors are good and not blurry at all (one can always attach a high quality monitor).
I'll upgrade when I start seeing 32 GB RAM options.
Why do you need 32 GB RAM in a laptop? (not criticizing, just asking) I've found with the speed of these SSDs, memory swap is almost unnoticeable anyway.