Spent a few days with my 15" now, what a tremendous laptop!
Battery life is incredible. Bearing in mind it's new, and I've rarely took my hands off it in the waking hours (annual leave this week), it's still lasted me all day off battery. Only yesterday, when I played Walking Dead for an hour or so, did the battery hit 10% or so. Given my usage will go down slightly once the novelty has worn off, going forward this deffo qualifies as all day battery life for my usage.
The display is amazing and I still can't believe how light the whole package is - it looks like it should weigh more. I've had a late 08 15" mpb previously, pretty heavy and got hot quickly. This has stayed ice cool so far, even when playing Walking Dead (which is hardly demanding admittedly).
Bit of an ordeal getting it on Monday though.
Rang Apple store Manc, all out (2.3,16gb, 512gb,750).
Rang Trafford centre Apple store..they had stock, yay! Wife had the car so got train and bus to Trafford centre (hate that place!). Went in Apple store, very busy, waited ages for them to take my money...but alas! The guy on the phone said they had stock, but it was actually some variation on last years model for £2,149, hence the confusion. Walked out utterly, utterly deflated, especially considering all the commuting
Then decided I'd have a look in John Lewis, thinking to myself, bet they only have the lower stock config. They had the £2199 model on display surprisingly. Asked the helpful member of staff about stock, he seemed to spend aaaaages on his computer, lots of tapping, then said yes, there's one left! Yay! Was so happy, the otherwise painfully slow bus ride back (hardly ever get the bus) flew by as I munched on a sarnie I'd bought from Boots and adopted my hardest, meanest looking face to deter muggers
Battery life is incredible. Bearing in mind it's new, and I've rarely took my hands off it in the waking hours (annual leave this week), it's still lasted me all day off battery. Only yesterday, when I played Walking Dead for an hour or so, did the battery hit 10% or so. Given my usage will go down slightly once the novelty has worn off, going forward this deffo qualifies as all day battery life for my usage.
The display is amazing and I still can't believe how light the whole package is - it looks like it should weigh more. I've had a late 08 15" mpb previously, pretty heavy and got hot quickly. This has stayed ice cool so far, even when playing Walking Dead (which is hardly demanding admittedly).
Bit of an ordeal getting it on Monday though.
Rang Apple store Manc, all out (2.3,16gb, 512gb,750).
Rang Trafford centre Apple store..they had stock, yay! Wife had the car so got train and bus to Trafford centre (hate that place!). Went in Apple store, very busy, waited ages for them to take my money...but alas! The guy on the phone said they had stock, but it was actually some variation on last years model for £2,149, hence the confusion. Walked out utterly, utterly deflated, especially considering all the commuting
Then decided I'd have a look in John Lewis, thinking to myself, bet they only have the lower stock config. They had the £2199 model on display surprisingly. Asked the helpful member of staff about stock, he seemed to spend aaaaages on his computer, lots of tapping, then said yes, there's one left! Yay! Was so happy, the otherwise painfully slow bus ride back (hardly ever get the bus) flew by as I munched on a sarnie I'd bought from Boots and adopted my hardest, meanest looking face to deter muggers
