this is sort of my modus operandi...every time they do a new form factor I usually wait till the second release. I for one, do like the new direction of the Ma

this is sort of my modus operandi...every time they do a new form factor I usually wait till the second release. I for one, do like the new direction of the MacBooks Pro - I think the ideal would be a 13" as 1) all the dedicated GPUs in the mobile space that I have used have always crapped out due to the combo of heat and bad BGA array solder (maybe things are better now than the fiascos with '08 vintage nVidia and ATI chips but that instilled a healthy amount of paranoia), and I have been moving towards wireless everything, dongle-free workflows. External storage and gizmos are through bluetooth or 802.11ac, or Apple TV airplay when possible. Assuming hardware v.2 gets some polished and the fancy contoured batteries, that will probably be good for me. I suspect the Mark Gurman article was right - could have used a little more polish. Now that Jony Ive and Bob Mansfield's attn turned elsewhere, Apple has to find good successors to their roles...but this is something a successful corp has to do or else fall by the wayside.