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The "I just ordered / bought / got my new/refurb MBP" thread [Merged]

retina?

I don't see anything here that shows it's a retina mac. Looks like it can be the new macbook pro (non-retina)
 
Is it me or to upgrade the ram went up in price? I could have sworn upgrading from 8 to 16 gb yesterday when i looked it was $90 now i look and its $220. Am i loosing my marbles or did anyone else notice this?
 
calderone said:
Excellent, glad they have the $3749 model in store.
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It sucks they aren't carrying upgraded RAM versions of the base and upgraded tiers.

Can I order a BTO to a store? Like, if I walk in and ask for the $2799 model with 16GB of RAM can they order it to be delivered to the store? I'm trying to order it 35 minutes away in NH to avoid the $200 sales tax like I do with all of my computers, but I haven't run into this problem until now.
 
Pipper99 said:
They had two of the upgraded models. Two other guys were in there to get the base models, but I got there first. The rep made it sound like they got in a bunch, but she said that she only had one base model. (Maybe I wasn't the first retina buyer in the store like she'd said). They are going to carry the base 2199, the upgraded 2799, and the maxed out version for 3749 in the store.
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What's the upgraded 2799? 256 Flash with 16mb memory?
 
Pipper99 said:
They had two of the upgraded models. Two other guys were in there to get the base models, but I got there first. The rep made it sound like they got in a bunch, but she said that she only had one base model. (Maybe I wasn't the first retina buyer in the store like she'd said). They are going to carry the base 2199, the upgraded 2799, and the maxed out version for 3749 in the store.

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When it's set to the "Best for Retina", I don't feel that I have to zoom in. When it's at the highest resolution, things are pretty tiny, but still sharp. I haven't played much with that setting, but it does give you a lot of screen real estate.
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Does it say what resolution it is running in the "Best for Retina" setting?
 
jronan2 said:
Is it me or to upgrade the ram went up in price? I could have sworn upgrading from 8 to 16 gb yesterday when i looked it was $90 now i look and its $220. Am i loosing my marbles or did anyone else notice this?
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It was $200 yesterday... $180 if you ordered with student discount.
 
fs454 said:
It sucks they aren't carrying upgraded RAM versions of the base and upgraded tiers.

Can I order a BTO to a store? Like, if I walk in and ask for the $2799 model with 16GB of RAM can they order it to be delivered to the store? I'm trying to order it 35 minutes away in NH to avoid the $200 sales tax like I do with all of my computers, but I haven't run into this problem until now.
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same question here:)
 
Here's the 32 bit benchmark

MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Display)
Section Description Score Geekbench Score
Geekbench 2.3.2 Tryout for Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Integer Processor integer performance 9160 11079
Floating Point Processor floating point performance 16582
Memory Memory performance 6830
Stream Memory bandwidth performance 7041
Result Information
Upload Date June 12 2012 07:42 PM
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System Information
MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Display)
Operating System Mac OS X 10.7.4 (Build 11E2620)
Model MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina Display)
Processor Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30 GHz
1 processor, 4 cores, 8 threads
Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9
L1 Instruction Cache 32 KB x 4
L1 Data Cache 32 KB x 4
L2 Cache 256 KB x 4
L3 Cache 6144 KB
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F MacBookPro10,1
BIOS Apple Inc. MBP101.88Z.00EE.B00.1205101839
Memory 8192 MB 1600 MHz DDR3
Integer Performance
Integer 9160
Blowfish
single-core scalar 2468
108 MB/sec
Blowfish
multi-core scalar 16205
664 MB/sec
Text Compress
single-core scalar 2836
9.07 MB/sec
Text Compress
multi-core scalar 14472
47.5 MB/sec
Text Decompress
single-core scalar 3093
12.7 MB/sec
Text Decompress
multi-core scalar 16282
64.9 MB/sec
Image Compress
single-core scalar 2444
20.2 Mpixels/sec
Image Compress
multi-core scalar 12351
104 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress
single-core scalar 2506
42.1 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress
multi-core scalar 10715
175 Mpixels/sec
Lua
single-core scalar 4982
1.92 Mnodes/sec
Lua
multi-core scalar 21575
8.30 Mnodes/sec
Floating Point Performance
Floating Point 16582
Mandelbrot
single-core scalar 2867
1.91 Gflops
Mandelbrot
multi-core scalar 21844
14.3 Gflops
Dot Product
single-core scalar 4421
2.14 Gflops
Dot Product
multi-core scalar 24349
11.1 Gflops
Dot Product
single-core vector 6721
8.05 Gflops
Dot Product
multi-core vector 30356
31.6 Gflops
LU Decomposition
single-core scalar 1490
1.33 Gflops
LU Decomposition
multi-core scalar 5067
4.44 Gflops
Primality Test
single-core scalar 6784
1.01 Gflops
Primality Test
multi-core scalar 25824
4.79 Gflops
Sharpen Image
single-core scalar 6395
14.9 Mpixels/sec
Sharpen Image
multi-core scalar 38480
88.7 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image
single-core scalar 7497
5.93 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image
multi-core scalar 50056
39.4 Mpixels/sec
Memory Performance
Memory 6830
Read Sequential
single-core scalar 7975
9.76 GB/sec
Write Sequential
single-core scalar 11481
7.85 GB/sec
Stdlib Allocate
single-core scalar 4276
16.0 Mallocs/sec
Stdlib Write
single-core scalar 4465
9.24 GB/sec
Stdlib Copy
single-core scalar 5954
6.14 GB/sec
Stream Performance
Stream 7041
Stream Copy
single-core scalar 7919
10.8 GB/sec
Stream Copy
single-core vector 9397
12.2 GB/sec
Stream Scale
single-core scalar 8292
10.8 GB/sec
Stream Scale
single-core vector 9033
12.2 GB/sec
Stream Add
single-core scalar 2648
4.00 GB/sec
Stream Add
single-core vector 9317
13.0 GB/sec
Stream Triad
single-core scalar 3030
4.19 GB/sec
Stream Triad
single-core vector 6692
12.5 GB/sec
 
Damn I went to the San Diego Apple yesterday to pick up a base model and they didn't even have the damn thing on display. The sales girl didn't even know when they were even going to get them in.
 
macNewbie02 said:
Awesome and congrats! Can you please let us know your impressions regarding the glare of this new Retina dispaly? How is it compared to the older MBP glossy screen? Does it really feel like 75% improvement?

Thanks.
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I would say that it's significantly better regarding glare. I've got the kitchen lights on above me and its not bothering me. I hadn't even noticed the glare until you mentioned it in your post. I think that Apple was able to remove one of the glass layers (or something like that). It's certainly better than my iMac. :)

Odd, but I don't see an option in Display preferences to list the available resolutions in the menu bar.
 
fs454 said:
It sucks they aren't carrying upgraded RAM versions of the base and upgraded tiers.

Can I order a BTO to a store? Like, if I walk in and ask for the $2799 model with 16GB of RAM can they order it to be delivered to the store? I'm trying to order it 35 minutes away in NH to avoid the $200 sales tax like I do with all of my computers, but I haven't run into this problem until now.
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I'm not sure if they will deliver a BTO to the store or not.
 
I just ordered this:

15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7
16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
512GB Flash Storage

+ Apple USB SuperDrive + Apple Magic Mouse


Apple Store online...
Dispatched — 2 - 3 Weeks
Delivery — 04 Jul, 2012 - 10 Jul, 2012 by Standard Shipping

..not great, but just in time for my birthday ;) And the Taxman is paying for it all... at some point in the future anyway. :rolleyes:
 
Here are pics at the various resolution.

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Question

Does the laptop has any glare. 15.4 inch macbook anti glare has no glare to it
so i was wondering do you see any glare when you have lights on.
please let us know
 
Pipper99 said:
Here are pics at the various resolution.

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Thank you so much for posting these! (Although, the last 3 screenshots look sort of out of focus which makes the resolution of the screen seem blurry...but, hey, thanks still!)

One important question, when the display is set to a scaled resolution ("More Space") is the scrolling in Safari and other apps "laggy"?

Some other posters have said the OS feels less snappy in the scaled resolution modes.
 
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vjicecool said:
Question

Does the laptop has any glare. 15.4 inch macbook anti glare has no glare to it
so i was wondering do you see any glare when you have lights on.
please let us know
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He replied regarding the glare about 4 posts up.

OP: Have you had time to check out the fan noise and temperature under stress?
 
@ Piper:
I was wondering the same thing as JS77. Does scaling it all affect the performance in any negative way (at least as far as you can see)?

Also, another question:
On a scale from 1 to Kamina-style sunglasses, how awesome does it feel to have that bad-boy in your possession?
 
I'm a bit conflicted about this new retina display. I love the crisp/sharpness of the display but it does feel lower resolution (text, icons, apps are all really big). There just isn't much screen real estate.

I was under the impression that in addition to the benefits of retina we'd somehow get more screen real estate at the same time without having to have it scaled. Hmmmm...need to keep playing with it a bit more.
 
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