APPLE-MACBOOK PRO-13" W/RETINA DISPLAY

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I'm thinking of buying the13" Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display. It will be the first time in years that I'll be investing in a new laptop. Does anyone have experience with it? I'm just wondering if I should wait until the new one comes out with the Haswell chip although the only benefit that I know of is that it provides a few more house of battery life.

What about the MacBook Air? Anyone have experience with that?

I'll finally be ditching my aged Powerbook G4, which I loved!

Any thoughts?

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ScribeLady said:
I'm thinking of buying the13" Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display. It will be the first time in years that I'll be investing in a new laptop. Does anyone have experience with it?
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I have the 15" rMBP and I love it. Best laptop I've ever owned. The only downside is you will hate looking at any other computer screen after you get used to it.

I'd love a 13" rMBP if it had more memory and quad-core CPU (both important for my work), since it's basically my ideal form factor.

I'm just wondering if I should wait until the new one comes out with the Haswell chip although the only benefit that I know of is that it provides a few more house of battery life.
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I'd say it's definitely worth waiting for Haswell since it's so close. Not only for the power benefits, but for the graphics performance. You don't have a discrete GPU in the 13" version, and you're driving over four million pixels. Haswell should have much better graphics capability and cope with the retina resolution much better.
 
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