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Suggestions needed: Apple Mac-Book Pro with Retina display
maybe i worded it wrongly, should have said "upgrade friendly"zzm9980 wrote:That's completely misleading unless you add "to repair or upgrade" which in fairness 95-98% of all laptop owners never do themselves.240volt wrote:hey there mate, the retina macbook pros are not very user friendly,
Applecare is indeed cheaper usually when not purchased from Apple. You'll find that Applecare for a Macbook Pro is pretty much model independent. You can buy and hold onto it, activating it months later. I often see 50%+ off AppleCare sales on places like Amazon or eBay. The catch is, you have to remember to go buy your Applecare later before the one-year mark. Most people just bundle it together out of laziness sake.
what i was talking about is, for example, i always buy my macbook pro stock, and then self upgrade everything, for example my current macbook pro 2012 originally came with 8GB of ram and 500GB 5400 rpm hard drive
I opened it up and replaced the ram to 16GB and the hard drive to 512GB SSD (Solid State Drive) - if this was done at apple the price would have been close to 3K, in fact the total damage i paid was less than 2k for everything (stock laptop + DIY upgrades of which all parts has their own warranty as well)
if you check hardwarezone much you will find that everyone there takes stuff in and out of their macbook pros, its quite normal
in the retina macbook pros the parts are glued together meaning you can probably never be able to upgrade it yourself, thats what i meant
then you need this... (i even upgraded my processor which is socketted)240volt wrote:maybe i worded it wrongly, should have said "upgrade friendly"
what i was talking about is, for example, i always buy my macbook pro stock, and then self upgrade everything, for example my current macbook pro 2012 originally came with 8GB of ram and 500GB 5400 rpm hard drive
I opened it up and replaced...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-busi ... b-com.html
Most people don't do this. You and the guys on hardware zone (the few dozen who post about it) are probably the only ones in Singapore actually doing it. Not saying there is anything wrong with it, but it is annoying to hear the same "OMG YOU CANT UPGRADE A RETINA MBP" as a negative when 99.9% of the people who are planning to buy a Retina MBP would never even consider doing such a thing.240volt wrote: what i was talking about is, for example, i always buy my macbook pro stock, and then self upgrade everything, for example my current macbook pro 2012 originally came with 8GB of ram and 500GB 5400 rpm hard drive
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if you check hardwarezone much you will find that everyone there takes stuff in and out of their macbook pros, its quite normal
hahaha no Apples are the saviour of divorced Dad'soffshoreoildude wrote:Apples are for fags.

For three years after I broke up with my wife I was constantly collecting my daughters laptop running Windows to fix software issues. Then I bought her a Mac. She is on her second one now (dropped the first one on a concrete floor, nothing I could do to fix that!) with a third coming soon.
Three years of pain followed by seven years of NEVER having to fix a software issue.
I love Mac's
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