Just got my first MacBook
Well, as the title says, this is my first MacBook. The only other OS X experience I have is with a 2011 iMac I owned for a few months.
Been using my Retina MBP base model for about 3 hours now. It is epic, I love it.
I thought I would be most impressed with the display, but while it is extremely nice I am used to the retina iPad and iPhone so it is nothing very new to me. I am actually most impressed with the chassis, speakers, and thermals. This thing is super thin considering the specs that it's packing, the speakers have no bass like all laptop speakers but they are pretty loud, don't distort, have a good midrange and are very clear - I can see why Apple were happy with them as music sounds great.
Its sooo quiet !! I have only done browsing on it and that kind of general thing, but in a normal room with someone cooking, watching TV etc, or even if your PC is on in the background.. it is essentially silent. I had to go into my bathroom with noone around and nothing else making noise, and put my ear right up to it to hear anything. I am sure when I put a game on things will crank up a bit.
Battery seems decent, been using it for 3 hours, it started on 91%, it's now on 29% and apparently has 1:50 left - thats from browsing, listening to spotify, downloading apps, 2GB of updates, downloading all my mail etc on about 60% brightness. I've only ever had the experience of using cheap sub £500 dell laptops like my sister is using right now. The differences are insane, her laptop has onboard gpu, a crappy 2 year old dual core, it's almost twice as thick.. and yet it feels hotter to the touch and the fan is far louder.
I like all the little touches too. The screen automatically dimming and brightening up, along with the keyboard, depending on your environment (Though I am aware that probably most high end laptops do this).The keyboard feel is really great, it takes a little getting used to Apples idea of a keyboard such as backspace replacing delete, and a few other small things.
It wakes up from sleep by the time your screen is half open, which is lovely. It just feels like your laptop never even powers down, and when in sleep it lasts 30 days on a full charge which seems pretty good for something of this spec. And man is this thing quick, i7 quad and very good SSD + OS X is a very fast combination - responsiveness is superb, as you would expect.
As for OS X.. well things definitely seem to have improved from a year or so ago and i'm really enjoying it.
So far, so good.
