Apple’s Next Gen MacBook Pro 2012

[Kwan Khan]

Never buy your RAM from Apple. :-)

Agreed

[Tehben Dean]

Assuming the 2 TB ports are using their own lanes or whatever and we can run each at its max...?

[Jon Carr]

I'm pretty much sold on it. But I still think it's funny we can have a 3k res screen but no R3D support in FCPx? Either way, can't wait to try CS6 on this beast!

[Corey Culp]

RAM looks soldered in ala Macbook Air. Explains why the $200 premium isn't as bad as it has been in the past: Apple took away the user upgradeable aspect for both the storage and RAM.

[Claus Mueller]

Pulled the trigger and just ordered the 2.6 GHz Retina Version, 16 GB and 512 SSD. Never thought that I'll go back to laptop solution, was hoping for iMac 4K.

[Brian Iannone]

Never buy your RAM from Apple. :-)

Unless you have no other choice. Which, in this case, you don't. The RAM on the "MacBook Pro with Retina display," or MBPR as I call it, is not user-replacebale.


I personally am content that the MBPR uses the same 2.3, 2.6 and 2.7GHz CPUs as the regular MacBook Pros do. The only major disadvantage that I would see for some users is the lack of an optical drive, though I don't even remember when the last time I had to use one on a notebook was. The pair of Thunderbolt ports is very, very nice. Finally, we have some fast data transfer interfaces on a notebook. :D

Ordered a 2.3GHz MBPR as I think it'll be an excellent machine for transferring data from cameras to drives. Between the two USB 3.0 ports and pair of Thunderbolt connectors, it's unlikely that anyone will find themselves at a lack of bandwidth. :)

[Tehben Dean]

Interesting that the 2.7MBP has 8mb l3cache vs standard 6, but the 2.7MBPR doesn't mention this. Wondering how beneficial the extra 2mb is.

Having 2 TB ports and 2USB3 ports will revolutionize data transfer... I'm pretty psyched. :)

[Brian Iannone]

Just so it's official.

[Brian Iannone]

Interesting that the 2.7MBP has 8mb l3cache vs standard 6, but the 2.7MBPR doesn't mention this. Wondering how beneficial the extra 2mb is.

Having 2 TB ports and 2USB3 ports will revolutionize data transfer... I'm pretty psyched. :)

Both the MBP and MBPR use identical CPUs. The 2.7GHz processor on the MBPR does indeed have an 8MB L3 cache.

[Jon Jones]

Yes I like this new MacBook Pro. I like it very much.