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MattSepeta wrote:
Looking over the new MBPs again, I am so, so, SO disappointed in Apple, thought hardly surprised.
I am a "pro". I use my current MBP for professional video, photographic, and graphic/design work. - This new Macbook "Pro" is borderline unusable... Soldered in RAM and SSD? I currently run a 750gbHDD for projects and libraries + 140gbSSD for boot + Apps. If my project drive fails, I pop in a spare I have laying around and copy over the backed up project, easily completing the project in time.
With this new soldered in SSD and NO HDD option as far as I can tell, I would be uber-screwed with a drive failure. Your only option is to go exchange the entire freakin computer? For what, to shave off a fraction of a CM and a fraction of an ounce? I'm a working pro, I really don't care about the fraction of an ounce. Im not using my computer while jogging. I am trying to make a living with it.
BK, I think you nailed it. I was always one quick to defend apple from the "apple is abandoning its core pro user base" crowd, but not I can't do that.
If apple would have simply added USB3, the upgraded processors and graphics cards to the existing 2011 MBPs, I would have ordered one in a heartbeat just for the USB3... But now I'm not sure what my next step is... ...Show more →
It's really not as bad as you make it out to be.
For one, you can get the extra 8GB of ram for $200. Getting new chips from 3rd party vendors like OWC and taking the old chips out cost very nearly as much, so you can get the 16GB from the get go.
The new drives are SSD's. They're not going to have the same mechanical failures as well... a mechanical hard drive. The only real issue's that have been reported are performance degradation, but those were mostly early gen models of a few years ago. Eventually, OWC or other 3rd party vendors should have replacements like they did with the MacBook Air computers. I believe the Retina notebooks use Samsung chips, so it's not a completely proprietary design.
As far as a backup, adding USB 3.0 with the included Thunderbolt ports should just allow you to plug in a replacement bootup disk if you use programs like superduper and create a backup boot drive and you should be ready to go with minimal down time. These new I/O ports have really changed the game in regards to overall operability and expandeability in notebook computers.
It's not what we're used to, but to say these new notebooks are not meant for pros is a bit of a stretch.
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