Looking for a laptop...

[Tinlad]

Samsung.

Much better CPU and GPU.
5 year warranty vs. 1 year warranty!
Gigabit ethernet instead of 100Mb (can't believe machines still ship with that).

You're unlikely to notice the difference between 4GB and 6GB RAM in day-to-day use. And anyway, RAM is cheap.

[Helios]

Samsung it is then.
Thanks guys.

[RB]

Also Toshiba have awful quality these days.

[nomis]

A year later and I've finally pulled the trigger.

I now have 13" MBPr \0/

[Ekona]

Huzzah! Any good?

[nomis]

Love it so far.

Its a really nice size for what I need - the odd commute into the office.

Typical solid apple build quality.

And of course the retina looks great.

[kingweed]

Got a crappy os on it though

Id get one if it came with windows 7 on it lol

Apple doing 0% finance of their stuff now as well.

[nomis]

First thing I did was to bootcamp windows 7 on it

0% finance was what pushed me to go for it now.

[kingweed]

Lovely

Hows the result?

I may be temped now, how smoothly did it go?

[nomis]

The result is great.

It was fairly straight forward - only one hiccup that took some googling to figure out.

The bootcamp process creates a usb boot drive from a windows 7 iso and all the apple drivers it will need, and then boots from that usb drive to do the windows install. I was hitting an error where the windows installer said it was missing drivers it needed. I eventually found out that I needed to manually grab some intel usb 3 drivers. With that sorted, it was plain sailing.

[kingweed]

I think I may be sold on it if that's the case.

I've just recently got a new laptop but i like shiny new things lol

[Tinlad]

Awesomes. Which one did you go for? (i5/i7, RAM, SSD etc.)

My 15" Pro is approaching 5 years old and is just beginning to feel old (2.66 GHz C2D, 8GB, 256GB SSD). I could get £500 - 600 for it on eBay. Combine that with an imminent bonus at work, 0% finance and the 5% discount we get at the Apple Store and I'm sorely tempted...

[nomis]

I went with the 13" 2.6ghz i5, 8GB RAM and 512 SSD.

Very happy with it - for the money I don't think you can find a better laptop tbh.

[Tinlad]

Indeed. Can't really fault the two I've had.

That's the spec I'd go for, I think. The 256GB SSD in my current machine is 90% full, and whilst I could economise and remain in that limit, I'd rather have the headroom.

[Tinlad]

Another question: what effective resolution do you have it running at? The default 'ideal' of 1280x800 or one of the scaled ones (1680x1050, 1440x900)?

If you run it scaled, how do you find the quality?