Far East Cynic

Feel the power of the dark side!

Rick Blaine:  "So how we doing tonight?"

Croupier: "A couple of thousand less than I thought there would be…….."

 

And why is that exactly?

Because yours truly just bought a Mac Book Pro with a Retina display!

After hearing Spike loft its praises-I decided to take the plunge-aided in part by the urgings of my sister and the fact that I have gotten the "Blue Screen of Death" on my old laptop twice this trip. And it took more than a little effort to get back to the old restore point.

So after all the years of decrying Mac's-now I are a member of the dark side. What is your bidding my master?

  1. While I have been a Mac bigot for as long as there have been Macs, I have to say that I am put off by the completely unservicable nature of the MacBook Pro/retina.  Want a new battery, or a larger solid-state drive?  Tough sh**.  Got a problem with that beautiful retina display?  To bad – it's glued in.
    ifxiit.com rates this computer as the least reparable Mac evar.

  2. Skippy,
    No matter what type computer you bought someone will tell you that its not good because of "x". I believe once you get used to working with your new toy you will come to like it and not look back to Windows.

  3. I have 2 2008 MacBooks and they still run great.  If there is a problem, reinstalling the OS X will usually fix it.  Mac has a great Q&A section that will get you up and running as normal as well.  And, as a last resort, you can call a tech 24/7 and for a fee they will make your Mac run like it just came out of the box.  I'm never going back.

  4. So far-I like it a lot. For one thing its a lot lighter than my current laptop. Second-I can reformat the old laptop and give it to the SO, and she can have her own machine. ( Assuming I can fix some of the software issues). I did have one issue installing MS Office on the machine-but I followed Apples guide to unistall and reinstall and now it works fine.

    Now that is one thing I think is not as easy as Windows-uninstalling a program is a rather complex evolution. Dragging different files to the trash is not necessarily intuitive.

    But I have wanted one of these Retina Mac Books since they came out-and the display is so nice! 🙂

  5. Time to buy into the ecosystem…. Appletv, time machine, iPhone/iPad  etc….  Not to mention chargers in different rooms, although probably not as necessary as they used to be with that huge battery.