Re:Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner
by encoderer on Monday August 27, 2012 @09:45AM
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I would say that the screen size and rez are not comparable. That the Macbook Pro Retina has 3 Million more pixels than the Zenbook. And that 11.6" is still awfully small for a primary machine.
I'd also say that the Zenbook has a dual core i7 with 4MB L3 cache. The MBP has a quad core with 6MB L3.
I'd also say that the SSD on a UX32 looks like it's 128MB standard, half what comes standard on the base MBP Retina.
And finally that even Ubuntu/Mint have far more issues than OSX. Things like always reliably coming back from sleep modes. I still have issues with this on Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop machine.
Look, i think the Zenbooks are beautiful and if all you have to spend on a machine is $1300 then I'd seriously consider it vs the 13" Air. I'd probably go Air because I have a lot of Apple ecosystem but an apple noob would probably go Zenbook.
But you can't compare it to a Retina 15" Macbook Pro. It's not like everybody that buys Apple just mindlessly forks-over an extra $900 for the brand name. The machine packs a punch.
I'd also say that the Zenbook has a dual core i7 with 4MB L3 cache. The MBP has a quad core with 6MB L3.
I'd also say that the SSD on a UX32 looks like it's 128MB standard, half what comes standard on the base MBP Retina.
And finally that even Ubuntu/Mint have far more issues than OSX. Things like always reliably coming back from sleep modes. I still have issues with this on Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop machine.
Look, i think the Zenbooks are beautiful and if all you have to spend on a machine is $1300 then I'd seriously consider it vs the 13" Air. I'd probably go Air because I have a lot of Apple ecosystem but an apple noob would probably go Zenbook.
But you can't compare it to a Retina 15" Macbook Pro. It's not like everybody that buys Apple just mindlessly forks-over an extra $900 for the brand name. The machine packs a punch.