The New MacBook Pro
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One of the neat things about Apple is that they have distinct milestones that you can talk about once or twice a year. The tech press loooooves it. With PCs, something new comes out roughly twice a day, so it’s impossible to keep up.
At the WWDC conference, Apple announced their new MacBook Pro model. It’s a beast of a laptop, and it looks beautiful. The top-of-the-line model has a 2.7GHz Quad Core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. (I didn’t even know they made flash drives that big.) It’s got a “Retina” display, which is what Apple calls any screen with 200 dpi or so, which is roughly the density where the human eye can’t distinguish individual pixels any more. And somehow they claim to get 7 hours of battery life out of this things. This is an awesome laptop any way you slice it, and it would be awesome to have one.
But…
It is hella expensive. If you thought Apple was getting soft in its old age and bringing down their prices, wait until you see the $3249 price tag for that top-of-the-line MacBook Pro model up there. Oh, and you can get a 768GB SSD for an extra $500. Of course, financing is available. :)
Still, it’s really hard to justify paying that much for one Apple product when you can take that same amount of money and fill a whole room with PC products that are 85% as good. I can’t ever see myself getting one of these unless someone else pays for it.
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