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I really like it too, but I may finally try a Mac when they refresh the retinas. I'll probably get more work done without all of those distracting video games a
by phaus 13y ago
I really like it too, but I may finally try a Mac when they refresh the retinas. I'll probably get more work done without all of those distracting video games anyways.
- X4 13y agoI also thought that, .1.5 years ago, but where are we? 8GB RAM, sorry that's not enough. Most importantly you cannot upgrade the RAM, SSD or ANYTHING else. Everything is hard soldered and you pay for the most basic stuff like Ethernet extra. People told me it's not possible to install Gentoo or Archlinux on it, is that true?
- jason_slack 13y agoI have the latest, non-retina, MBP. So I can upgrade the RAM (running 16gb now) and I removed the superdrive and put in 2 x 750GB 7200rpm drives and striped them together.
- phaus 13y agoHow are the screens on the non-retina Macbooks? I know it won't be an IPS, but are they still decent?
- jason_slack 13y agoI am perfectly fine on a non-retina. There is a difference for sure. When I go to my iPad 4 I surely appreciate the retina quality. For me it was more important the expandability than the screen.
- phaus 13y agoThe 15" retina allowed an upgrade to 16GB, I can only hope that the new 13" will also allow it.
- X4 13y agoI don't know, I called the Apple hotline twice to ask if more RAM is possible or using a better SSD like the ones Intel makes, but they said: Sorry that's no possible.
- phaus 13y agoTo clarify, I mean that you can get one with 16GB, you can't upgrade it afterwards unless I'm mistaken. Ram is so cheap that Apple should really consider making 16GB the standard for all rMBPs with an option to increase to 32 for the 15".
- jason_slack 13y agoI really like my MBP. I am very productive on it. 16GB isn't quite enough when you have a few virtual machines running for things. Windows 7 for some game dev CentOS6 for a test webserver before I deploy to production. OSX as the host running browser, e-mail, XCode, iTunes, iOS Simulator. I have found so far that an up and coming, unreleased, operating system does dramatically decrease my overall memory usage, so this might help keep 16gb viable for me for a while yet.