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Monday, June 11, 2012, 1:32 PM ETTim Cook announces Apple's (AAPL) expected MacBook refresh during his keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (live blog). New MacBook Pro and Air models sporting Intel (INTC) Ivy Bridge processors are introduced, including a $2,199, 15.4" MacBook Pro featuring a retina display with a 2880x1880 resolution. Nvidia (NVDA +4.1%) is rallying on news that the 15" Pro models (retina display or otherwise) will contain the company's graphics processors (previous).
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The $2200 is for a retina display and a 256gb ssd.
Shove it where you have your brains pal!
This is insane,
who the hell can afford another $2200 for something they already own?
Oh yeah, forgive me,
Gene Munster and the rest of the so called fanboys!
Just how many of us normal people are going to go run out with a months rent to buy a craptop!
Not many I would bet!
You wont even need to short Apple, when the masses wise up and start to take profits out of this MEGA BUBBLE unto itself, look out below!
Apple is no different than any other stock,
it will revert to the means,
and don't give me the bull crap of its so cheap on a p/e ratio!
We are not in and have not been in a free market system for 4 years now, the NORMAL metrics don't work in this Twilight Zone, fed induced market nightmare!
I have a Mac Book Air and will definitely buy the new MacPro with retinal display. Geez, I guess I better cash in some more food stamps......no, wait, my mREITs are about to pay out divvies!
The old 15" is more expensive, by $200. Granted, that's one expensive ssd, but Even if you go to newegg and do reasonable aftermarket parts, the new Retina display is only $50 or so more than the old display.
It's also a good few hundred less than the 2.4 ghz 17" machine that's no longer being sold.
I bet that in 2 years, you're not going to see normal res displays on mac laptops. And in that time, it might get somewhat possible to get them in non-mac laptops.
What you see now is the puck moving away from where the ultrabook mfgs were skating to.
Sort of. You can get comparable PC ultrabooks for ~$800. Apple must be slipping, I can usually find a 30% cheaper PC in just a couple minutes. :)
And of course, you can find bulkier but otherwise comparable models for much, much less.
I am sorry, but for the computing needs of 85% of the U.S. population, there is simply no sensible cost/benefit advantage to a Mac.
That said, if you can afford it, why not? It's thin, it's light, and most importantly, it's cool-looking and shiny. :)
Still there is something else that is worth any extra cost to me. That is that the Mac just works. Buy a new printer, plug it in and it works. No screwing around with drivers. You usually don't even need to use the disk that comes with the printer. Same thing for cameras.
So if you just like to fool around with stuff on your computer, buy a windows machine and it will keep you busy.
Apple has been recommending antivirus software for macs since 2008. :)
http://cnet.co/NuXmxC
And most people these days agree that Microsoft Security Essentials is more than sufficient for PCs, and is free:
http://bit.ly/Oq5AVI
> If you use it for business you probably have to buy MS Office
> at an exorbitant price
Unless you use a mac for business, in which case you have to buy the mac version of MS Office for the same exorbitant price, except it's a version or two behind. :)
People like you are still living in 1993 -- the days of fussing with autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get your PC to behave. These days you can plug any reputable hardware into a USB port and Windows 7 automatically fetches drivers for it and, surprise, it "just works."
Live in the now. Macs give most basic users far more hardware and software than they'll ever need (and yet is /still/ missing some common things), all at a premium they don't need to pay.
It is virtually a crime to recommend a mac to anyone on a tight budget.
But again, for those who can splurge, go ahead and rock that Apple logo. :)
Have you checked the resale value of Apple products on eBay? You easily make up the premium you pay for the products by reselling them when you buy the new version.
Disclosure: no position in AAPL.
Never underestimate the desire of the monetarily flush or wanna-be's to sport something that sparks envy elsewhere, irrespective of what anyone may think of its value.
After all, but only in my humble opinion, vehicles are generally [though not totally] becoming uglier every year [as opposed to some of the runner classics on the market] but are they bought? Not only are they bought, but many are touted as "design excellence", a sure bet euphemism for "ugly as sin"; but what do I know?
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Why do you say that? Windows 7 didn't "bring lots of bugs". At least, that was my experience with both my work machine and my wife's laptop and the desktop I bought for the house/kids. As was pointed out above, I think you're living in the past. Time to get over the Microsoft hate...
But hey, at least I'd save all that money on anti virus programs, right? Speaking of that, I need to go buy some Norton for 3 more PC computers in my office, as my Avast is expiring.
Can't wait to outfit my home with the new Apple TV's. There goes another $8,000.00 down the Apple drain. But unless they can work with DirecTV to get the sports packages (displaced Midwesterner here), I won't be buying an Apple TV until they do.
My wife may just have to wait for her new toys. Sorry, honey.
no need for that $2200!
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