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Analyzing the New MacBook Pro
MrSeb writes "Late yesterday, Apple released a next-generation 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. It has a 2880×1800 220 PPI display. The normal 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs have also been updated, but the 17-inch MBP has been retired, in effect replaced by the new Retina display MBP. Without a doubt, this new laptop is an engineering marvel in the same league as the original iPhone or MacBook Air. ... The Retina display MBP really looks nothing we've ever seen before. Here, ExtremeTech dives into the engineering behind the laptop, paying close attention to that new and rather shiny display — and the fact that this thing has no user-replaceable parts at all."
Fleshing things out a bit more, iFixit has a teardown of the internals. Their verdict: effectively unrepairable by the user.
Appliance buyers don't tear down their toaster very often either.
Your childhood sucked didn't it?
These shady ifixit characters are peddling pure propaganda. You can repair a damaged or non-functional macbook pro with just a few clicks!
Its just a fucking laptop.
Well, in some circumstances, that would be considered a big plus, even if it doesn't quite rise (ahem) to the level of an engineering marvel.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Yes FOOL, but this is iRam.
Which is much shinier than regular RAM.
One could say it's an ENGINEERING MARVEL TO BEHOLD!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
You ever played a video game on a Roman aqueduct? The frame rate is atrocious.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
if they still choose to go with Apple let them be bitten by the consequences of that decision.
in capitalist america, apple bites you!
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
People like you are the only reason Apple is making money. Period.
Okay guys. Lets freeze, and back slowly away, off his lawn.....
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Holy crap, check out your username. I bow down to all the years you waited to make that joke!