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Re:Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner by ricardobeat on Monday August 27, 2012 @12:49AM (#4437486)
It's all about getting the most of your time using the machine, unless you're doing CPU-intensive work (and why wouldn't you offload that to a server farm?). Convenience, reliability, usability, efficiency, etc.

After obsessing over pc parts since childhood, these days I don't give a shit about specs and am happier for it - unless I'm trying to play Counter-strike, even then I only wish I could use my PS3 and forget about it :)

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Re:Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner by RegEx on Monday August 27, 2012 @01:20AM (#4437557)
My work MBP is fast enough for what I do. I don't need 16gig 2133 DDR3, or an i7. My problem, though, is that you're paying PC i7 level price for an i3/5, for example.
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Re:Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner by shinratdr on Monday August 27, 2012 @01:58AM (#4437617)
That's like saying by buying a Smart Car you're paying V6 price for a four cylinder engine. In other words, you couldn't be missing the point more.
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Re:Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner by RegEx on Monday August 27, 2012 @08:08AM (#4438406)
I guess I just view things from a different perspective, not having the disposable income of the average HNer (where 2200 is a "rounding error", as seen in this thread)
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