£1799 with 15.6' 2880 X 1800 Retina 220 DPI screen, 1GB GDDR5 Nvidia 650M, 8GB 1600Mhz DDR3L (Low Voltage), 256GB SSD, 2.3Ghz Quad core i7
Height: 1.8 cm (0.71 inches)
Width: 35.89 cm (14.13 inches)
Depth: 24.71 cm (9.73 inches)
Weight: 2.02 kg (4.46 pounds)
I would have liked a more powerful GPU, but it's an amazing spec for the price and so thin.
macs are a waste of time, especially the new macbook pro.
The SSD is specially designed by Samsung so you cannot upgrade unless some come up on the market.
The ram is soldered to the motherboard so you cannot upgrade that either.
The battery is glued to the chassis so if your battery dies you need to buy a new chassis with the battery or buy a new laptop and no you cant just rip the battery out because its glued down underneath the touchpad and the wires so you will most likely damage it beyond repair doing so.
The reason they have made it look so slick and light and "cool" is because everything has been built specific to that laptop so nothing generic will fit...
Waste if money unless you have money to burn.
Sorry if some people dont like what im saying.
i gotta disagree, while macs are not that upgradeable, they are one of the most reliable computers out there. I have had my macbook pro and my 27 imac for over 2 years each now and have not had a single problem with either, i also use several at work and have never run into a single problem on any of them. I cant say as much for pcs, in fact pretty much every pc i've had or used has had a problem at some time or other, including those running linux.
I'm also unsure as to where you are getting your information about how the components fit into the macs, ram is not soldered to the motherboard, infact please see here http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1270#link3 for an official link describing how to replace ram in a macbook pro. Ssds and hdds are also replacable, pretty easily too, plenty of videos showing you how to do it online.
The battery is one of the things i'm not bothered about, i have never known anyone to have a problem with a battery on any of their apple products. I may just be lucky, but then i am in contact with a lot of apple products, be it iphones, ipods, macs etc and so the lack of problems means i dont see lack of removeability as a problem.
Anyway as for use, for a gamer yes they are a waste of money, for photographers, musicians, even programmers such as myself they are absolutley fantastic machines and completely destroy any pc/laptop. As many people on here know i have a pretty good pc, id still go back to my mac in an instant for a lot of my programming. The workflow on osx is fantastic in comparison with any windows or linux based os. Everything just works too, never have any hasstle with anything. I use my pc alot for 3d rendering, game design, mobile app design etc and there are always niggly little problems, compatability and the like, things i never have on my mac.
As i say, it depends entirely on what you are using it for. Those who think macs are a waste of money or a rip off, either haven't used it or don't have the need for one, id say they are far from a rip off.
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cool, well you may remember recommending me a ASUS Transformer, and I will be getting the new Infinity TF700 when its released, whats your app? and is it tablet compatible?
Ah sounds good. Um all I can say at the moment is its a strategy game, its in beta at the moment, itll be released hopefully within about 3 months from now. It can be run on a tablet, I run it both on my samsung galaxy s3 and my xoom 2 me tablet, both run it fine, although it looks much better on a phone. I will eventually get round to rewriting the interface fully for tablets.