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The (culture?) shift at Apple is very apparent. They no longer make premium prices that people would say is a ripoff (non-retina Macbooks). They make premium pr

The (culture?) shift at Apple is very apparent. They no longer make premium prices that people would say is a ripoff (non-retina Macbooks). They make premium products that people would say are very, very much worth the money (retina Macbooks, Airs). The non-retina Macbook has been the same exact design for about 5 years with very minor upgrades; buying it is foolish compared to the things Apple considers its future (rMBP, MBA). Few (though not zero) non-Apple products can beat the Retina and Air on price, specs, and performance, but many can beat the non-retina on all those things.

auggierose 13y ago
I bought the 17-inch Macbook Pro just a week before the retina came out (on purpose). It is worth every damn penny.
bane 13y ago
One thing that Apple does is clearly telegraph where they are planning to go. They drop support for old devices quickly and lavish support onto the product vectors they want to go all out on. As a consumer it makes the decision to buy a slightly cheaper but soon to be unsupported device vs. a more expensive but should have good support for the next 3 or 4 years easy. But once you end up dropping off of the support curve, it gets frustrating rather quickly. I have a 6 year old Dell laptop and a slightly newer MBP. The Dell is still finding lots of life even these days, doing time as a file server/NAS device and now a Chromecast laptop for my living room (for Chrome tab broadcast). I recently installed Windows 7 on it and it runs pretty much what I need like a champ -- full driver support and everything. Now my MBP, I can't really find much use it for other than a little web surfing, and even that is hopelessly crippled due to OS requirements for flash upgrades -- even though the hardware is powerful enough to do what I need, the version of OS X I need to get the latest flash updates (so I can watch Hulu on it for example) doesn't support the device. Hell my virtually unsupported netbook from the same era is more useful at this point.
- anko 13y ago
  can you just download chrome and use the flash player that's built in?
  - bane 13y ago
    Turns out no. It doesn't work either. I probably burned up 2 full days trying to get it to work. Would have just been easier to load bootcamp and Windows on the machine.

auggierose 13y ago

I bought the 17-inch Macbook Pro just a week before the retina came out (on purpose). It is worth every damn penny.

bane 13y ago

One thing that Apple does is clearly telegraph where they are planning to go. They drop support for old devices quickly and lavish support onto the product vectors they want to go all out on. As a consumer it makes the decision to buy a slightly cheaper but soon to be unsupported device vs. a more expensive but should have good support for the next 3 or 4 years easy. But once you end up dropping off of the support curve, it gets frustrating rather quickly. I have a 6 year old Dell laptop and a slightly newer MBP. The Dell is still finding lots of life even these days, doing time as a file server/NAS device and now a Chromecast laptop for my living room (for Chrome tab broadcast). I recently installed Windows 7 on it and it runs pretty much what I need like a champ -- full driver support and everything. Now my MBP, I can't really find much use it for other than a little web surfing, and even that is hopelessly crippled due to OS requirements for flash upgrades -- even though the hardware is powerful enough to do what I need, the version of OS X I need to get the latest flash updates (so I can watch Hulu on it for example) doesn't support the device. Hell my virtually unsupported netbook from the same era is more useful at this point.

anko 13y ago
can you just download chrome and use the flash player that's built in?
- bane 13y ago
  Turns out no. It doesn't work either. I probably burned up 2 full days trying to get it to work. Would have just been easier to load bootcamp and Windows on the machine.