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You'll also have enough money to pay someone to carry the extra batteries.

Quote: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.

*brain aneurism*

You cannot seriously believe that.

Please, NaturalViolence, enlighten me by finding a comparable computer. If it exists and is cheaper than I think the display is worth, I would like to buy it when I get the money instead of the retina pro when I go to college.

EDIT: I know the HP Envy computers don't have a 15" with comparable specs as I just looked. Those are the closest computers as far as build go AFAIK.

Literally every single ultrabook out there fits your description. Thin, light, reasonably powerful, good build quality, excellent battery life, and expensive (but still usually half the cost of a comparable macbook).

(10-08-2012, 10:08 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Literally every single ultrabook out there fits your description. Thin, light, reasonably powerful, good build quality, excellent battery life, and expensive (but still usually half the cost of a comparable macbook).

I don't know of any ultra books with a processor as powerful as the one in the retina pro.

I looked at Samsung, Dell, and HP, and they all use dual-core i7 xxxxU CPUs with 4 logical threads on 2 physical cores that run at 3.0 GHz turbo. The processor in the retina pro has an i7 quad core with 8 logical threads that runs at 3.3 GHz turbo.

That isn't comparable.

The graphics cards are comparable. The storage space is a personal preference (capacity of HDD vs. performance of SSD) and varies based on which ultra book you look at.

So no, that isn't a valid response NV.

Ultrabooks fit literally everything you asked for.

So now it needs to have a quad core cpu and all of the above is what you're saying? Are you going to add any new conditions when I show you a laptop that does this? Because I would like to know in advance this time.

This was how the conversation went:

- MacBooks are too expensive
- I point out why the Retina Pro is actually reasonable for the price
- You say you could get the same or comparable specs, build quality, and battery life for less
- I point out that that is not the case, and ask for examples
- You put out "ultrabook" as your answer
- I refute that by pointing out that the processors in ultrabooks are inferior
- you act like somehow it wasn't clear we were arguing about how these specs weren't available in other laptops and that it wasn't clear that it had to be a processor of the same caliber

So it was pretty clear from the get-go for me. Find a computer that matches it or admit that you are wrong. I actually want a computer this powerful. I would like to find one like it; if it is cheaper than 2200 (and enough so to outweigh the worth of the screen), then I will gladly accept it.

*Ahem* http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=category_browse&selected_cat=8

You're welcome. I can't stand the whole mentality behind Mac vs. PC, a Mac is still a PC and when you get one, you're paying for the brand.

^Happy now axxer?

He'll moan about battery life (but instructions per full charge we have him now).