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Apple Introduces All New MacBook Pro with Retina Display

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Fourstaff said:
That laptop series along with MBA 11" and Asus K5x series are what I usually recommend people to get if they want a laptop, I give plenty of love to them :)



Patent trolls are nothing new, Apple stands to lose more or less everything they spent on their R&D and their raison d'etre if they don't do that. Nasty, but that is how quite a lot of companies in the tech industry work.
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I remember microsoft getting in trouble in the 1990s about buying out companies and getting stupid patents. Apple has been just going about it like its no ones business.
 
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nvidiaintelftw said:
I remember microsoft getting in trouble in the 1990s about buying out companies and getting stupid patents. Apple has been just going about it like its no ones business.
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Microsoft was almost completely monopolising the market back in the 1990s, Apple is no where close to that position yet. When they get there no doubt people will start to antithrust them back in line.
 
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Fourstaff said:
Microsoft was almost completely monopolising the market back in the 1990s, Apple is no where close to that position yet. When they get there no doubt people will start to antithrust them back in line.
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A buddies dad who is a super apple fanboy said that Microsoft is still a big monoply. And I replied yeah maybe in the 1990s.
 
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Fourstaff said:
Microsoft primarily provides software and no more, Apple is an integrated system manufacturer. Its quite a lot different, for example you can build your own Caterham 7 off parts you choose, but you can only buy a Ford as is.
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It is actually true that we shouldn't really be comparing a mac as a whole (apple hardware and apple os) with windows (microsoft os) or even with a pc (oem/user built hardware and microsoft os). Microsoft isn't responsible for the pcs that companies churn out, so we should split the mac in half and compare the os with windows and then the hardware with every other computer manufacturer and personal build in the world.

On a forum like this where people are interested in customisation and very much choosing their own parts and os and fitting them together, the opinion is going to always be that a complete system is annoying and uncustomisable, customising before purchase for $200 for some RAM is too expensive compared to doing it yourself.

Therefore unless you are technically able and this just happens to have the exact specs for the exact price! you want, this is going to mainly appeal to people who buy a computer on looks, who wouldn't be able to upgrade one anyway, or who don't even understand the specs and just think Apple are so amazing that they must be right and everything "will just work" *cough* ethernet, games, fixing it, and in reply to an earlier comment ethernet via usb is not a viable replacement, ever.
 
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Patriot said:
Does anyone have the real resolution...

is it 2560x1440 or 2560x1600?

2560x1800 would be nearly 4:3 and they are not quite that stupid... though some of the buyers...
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Hahaha!! you're funny!
 
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