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neil_g said:
only recently they stopped selling the 17. i suspect that was more down to profit margins than taking into account user need (the drop seems to have annoyed quite a lot of users).
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I've just dumped my old 17" for a 15.4" retina Macbook Pro. With the display set to "more space" you can still get the same stuff on the screen albeit 10% smaller but with about 35% higher resolution. I'm not missing the 17" at all.

This thing is VERY quick though..... Quad i7 @ 2.6GHz (3.6GHz boost), 16Gb Ram, 512Gb SSD and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M..... Quicker than my Quad Xeon Mac Pro.

The 17" only accounted for about 5% of sales and most of the people who would have bought a new 17" would get 15.4" machines so Apple will not have lost many sales. I would certainly have preferred a retina 17" had there been one but so be it.
 
Soda Farl said:
Lol another one brain washed into spending money he doesn't need too.

Unlucky fella Apple hardware and software stopped being good around 3-4 years ago just when you bought into there marketing.
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Ok you point out to me where I can get another machine that matches my retina MBP..... Oh no you can't can you! I have choice, I can buy whatever I like. I choose to buy Apple kit because I LIKE it. I run Windows, Linux and MacOS but MacOS is my OS of CHOICE.
 
I use both windows based machines and Apple. Windows machine running Windows 7 for work inc. use of CS5, Apple 27" iMac and 13" MBP at home for web and editing with CS6, Aperture and PSE10.

The windows machine (4Gb RAM, dual core) runs CS5 comfortably but in the average day it will crash at least once and freeze up 5 - 10 times doing basic tasks even having recently been rebuild (again!).

The Apple machines seem to run more reliably with consistent operation. The OS goes far further than just having a different layout IMHO. It just feel like the pairing between software and hardware makes for a better experience.

I choose to go over to Apple at home following advice from a number of IT solution architects and programmers at work - they spend their days working with generic hardware running windows OS, but all run Apple systems at home.

I also like the seamless integration between devices - iMac, MBP, iPhone, AppleTV, iPad etc.

I know its horses for courses and for every Apple recommendation there will be someone to recommend a Windows based system, im not suggesting there is a right or wrong, just trying to share my personal experience.
 
Nick_1981 said:
The windows machine (4Gb RAM, dual core) runs CS5 comfortably but in the average day it will crash at least once and freeze up 5 - 10 times doing basic tasks even having recently been rebuild (again!).
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I don't know what you are doing, or who rebuilt your machine but the last time I had a machine in front of me that did anything like that was a Mindows ME machine (so around 2000 - 2001) and the last time I had a Windows machine that was any way unstable was my last works laptop which was managed by corporate IT. It was running XP SP2 and they managed to install something that would cause a BSOD when it would resume from sleep. When I (manually) upgraded the display drivers, all was well again - and I thought the whole point of a corporate spec laptop was so that we all had the same operating environment....

I look after half a dozen or so Windows machines and apart from user error (which depends on the user as to how often that is) they "just work", exactly as you'd expect them to. Maintenance time is generally minimal (the last problem was "I can't connect to the net" which turned out to be the external switch that turns the wireless on and off was switched to off....

As you say, just sharing my personal experience.
 
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