[LiquidTurbo]

Originally Posted by Ronin

I ordered a new retina 15" last week. $2484 after taxes. Base model but with 16GB RAM.

Let me outline the reasons why:

1. The screen is fucking amazing. I've never seen THUMBNAILS look this good and the way it renders high resolution photos is unlike anything I've ever seen. They don't even look like pictures. They look like what I saw when I took the picture without a camera as a middle man. Might have a bit to do with my 5D3 as well but STILL.

2. Some of you are saying you can get a cheaper PC that's just as fast but I don't think you can find one that's just as thin or well built. I picked this thing up and it feels solid...like slamming the door on a Rolls. I looked around at PCs that are in the thin and light class and similarly specced, they're about $400-500 less but none are made with materials like this in a package like this. Sure you can NOS out a Civic and get under a 10 second 1/4 mile or you could pay more for an M5 (or whatever) that isn't necessarily faster but build quality of a luxury car > Japanese econobox.

Sure, thin and light might not matter to you but it does to me. Even in 2001, I was buying wedge shaped laptops that cost more for the same speed as a cheapie but were half the size.

3. Couldn't possibly care less about lack of fixability or upgrades. Upgrades are a thing of the past...and if you can repair your own laptop, then you're one of the very, very few on the planet. On laptops, you just add HD space and RAM anyways. 16GB RAM good enough until the next upgrade cycle and if you want a 1TB SSD on your laptop, that's just silly expensive anyways so not being able to open up the laptop doesn't bother me.

By the time it needs upgrading, it'll be time to buy something new rather than eek out a little bit more performance on old tech.

Wow, that was incredible reading you justify a $2500 computer like that...