(10-07-2012, 08:43 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: [ -> ]Because that is totally a reasonable price for something which would cost $800 from any other manufacturer.
No other manufacturer has that screen though...
The processor and graphics card could be gotten for $1000 here in the US at the lowest price. That says nothing of the build quality, battery life, or display.
The display on the Retina MacBook Pro is amazing. You can't deny that. No one else offers anything like it. The build quality is also superb IMO.
Whether you want or need that is your personal preference. The great battery life, display, and almost ultra book thinness and sturdiness is worth $2200 to me.
Quote:No other manufacturer has that screen though...
The processor and graphics card could be gotten for $1000 here in the US at the lowest price. That says nothing of the build quality, battery life, or display.
The display on the Retina MacBook Pro is amazing. You can't deny that. No one else offers anything like it. The build quality is also superb IMO.
Whether you want or need that is your personal preference. The great battery life, display, and almost ultra book thinness and sturdiness is worth $2200 to me.
I'll let you have the display argument but sturdiness and battery life? Come on, that's really reaching. You can get the same battery life and "build quality" (sturdiness) from other manufacturers and still wind up with a MUCH cheaper system. You're paying $1,200 more (a 120% increase in cost) for a custom Unix OS and an improved screen.
Also I highly doubt that it is as thin as an ultrabook usually is (not that that matters anyways) considering most of them are designed to have a thickness similar to a macbook air.
(10-07-2012, 12:49 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:No other manufacturer has that screen though...
The processor and graphics card could be gotten for $1000 here in the US at the lowest price. That says nothing of the build quality, battery life, or display.
The display on the Retina MacBook Pro is amazing. You can't deny that. No one else offers anything like it. The build quality is also superb IMO.
Whether you want or need that is your personal preference. The great battery life, display, and almost ultra book thinness and sturdiness is worth $2200 to me.
I'll let you have the display argument but sturdiness and battery life? Come on, that's really reaching. You can get the same battery life and "build quality" (sturdiness) from other manufacturers and still wind up with a MUCH cheaper system. You're paying $1,200 more (a 120% increase in cost) for a custom Unix OS and an improved screen.
Also I highly doubt that it is as thin as an ultrabook usually is (not that that matters anyways) considering most of them are designed to have a thickness similar to a macbook air.
MacBook Pros have really good battery life. When Apple says it lasts 8 hours, it lasts 8 hours+. I also didn't say it was as thin as an ultra book, I said it was almost as thin.
(10-07-2012, 10:11 AM)Axxer Wrote: [ -> ]No other manufacturer has that screen though...
The processor and graphics card could be gotten for $1000 here in the US at the lowest price. That says nothing of the build quality, battery life, or display.
The display on the Retina MacBook Pro is amazing. You can't deny that. No one else offers anything like it. The build quality is also superb IMO.
Whether you want or need that is your personal preference. The great battery life, display, and almost ultra book thinness and sturdiness is worth $2200 to me.
Thanks Axxer
And yeah, you're right with the battery life. Up to 7 hours promise Apple. I get about 7-8 hours
This has gotten a bit offtopic
It's turned into rich people telling us we're wrong (although I'll let them have that the screen is better).
Yeah no other laptop can deliver 8 hours of battery life for less money /sarcasm
7-8 hours is above average but it's nothing amazing. My netbook can do 12 hours pretty easily.
But your netbook has pretty lame power compared to a higher end laptop like the Retina Pro. Most high end laptops are below 8 hours (though they get reasonably close).
There's always the option of carrying extra batteries to the value of the Macbook with you. You could probably get 100 laptop batteries with the money saved, so that would give you 800 hours battery life. There's still no way it's cost effective.
(10-08-2012, 07:28 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: [ -> ]There's always the option of carrying extra batteries to the value of the Macbook with you. You could probably get 100 laptop batteries with the money saved, so that would give you 800 hours battery life. There's still no way it's cost effective.
And a 500 lb carrying case lol.
At this point I'm done trying to argue with you people since you clearly don't see the advantages of a laptop past a certain set of specs. It has excellent battery life, a very thin and light (yet strong) build and excellent CPU/GPU/RAM. No other laptop offers all of these things at once that I know of. That makes it a good deal to me.