[heisetax]

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Darn it.......hoping for a 17" at some point! I tried going down to a 15" and its too small now. Apple bring back the 17" MacBook Pro!!

Didn't you realize that 17" is too big to be small & pretty. Also at around 6.5 lbs it is too heavy for anyone to carry, even in a wheeled case.

For a company that Mr Ivy said is not all about profit why would the smaller sales of the 17" MacBook Pros not fit in. I guess what he means is that profit is first & then comes the lack of a 17" model.means that profit would not be large enough.

With the demise of the 17" MacBook Pro I had to buy 2 of the last models at the same price as the new model with updated insides would have had.

Add to this the lack of a new Mac Pro Apple is saying to me that they do not want my business. They are making it harder for me to stay with them. My first Mac was an original Mac 128 back in 1984.

When Apple started making a 17" model I moved up from my 15" model. At home I have an HP 30" display that has a display port on it that I connect to my 17" model to gain more useable screen space. That is not an option when I am out of my office with it. After using 3 30" displays with my Mac Pro + a couple other displays I really feel confined with 1 17" display. A 15" model is like you too small for me. Since Apple is all about small & pretty rather than big enough to do the job at hand I do not expect a new 17" model.

[icerabbit]

heisetax, on 14 February 2013 - 01:55 PM, said:

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Darn it.......hoping for a 17" at some point! I tried going down to a 15" and its too small now. Apple bring back the 17" MacBook Pro!!

Didn't you realize that 17" is too big to be small & pretty. Also at around 6.5 lbs it is too heavy for anyone to carry, even in a wheeled case.

For a company that Mr Ivy said is not all about profit why would the smaller sales of the 17" MacBook Pros not fit in. I guess what he means is that profit is first & then comes the lack of a 17" model.means that profit would not be large enough.

With the demise of the 17" MacBook Pro I had to buy 2 of the last models at the same price as the new model with updated insides would have had.

Add to this the lack of a new Mac Pro Apple is saying to me that they do not want my business. They are making it harder for me to stay with them. My first Mac was an original Mac 128 back in 1984.

When Apple started making a 17" model I moved up from my 15" model. At home I have an HP 30" display that has a display port on it that I connect to my 17" model to gain more useable screen space. That is not an option when I am out of my office with it. After using 3 30" displays with my Mac Pro + a couple other displays I really feel confined with 1 17" display. A 15" model is like you too small for me. Since Apple is all about small & pretty rather than big enough to do the job at hand I do not expect a new 17" model.

Have you tried a 15" retina mbp? 2880x1800 pixels is a lot more real estate than the 17" had with 1920x1200.

[Zoidbert]

Have you tried a 15" retina mbp? 2880x1800 pixels is a lot more real estate than the 17" had with 1920x1200. [/quote]

More pixels but not more real estate. Some of us like having the large screen, not just a lot of pixels packed into a smaller space.

[Frost7]

Oh man. I so want one of these. I wish Apple would move to a different keyboard design though. I do a LOT of writing on my MacBook Pro and the chiclet keys are just miserable to use compared to the keyboard on my early '08 MacBook Pro. That's the sole reason I still haven't upgraded.

[DStokes06]

I think this is bogus, I just bought my 13 inch MBP w/ retina and then this happens after I paid more to boost the specs to where they are now at a much cheaper price. I swear Apple really knows how to get their money I would've taken that money and bought a base model 15 inch if thats the case. Buyers should have the option to swap out if they've purchased the late 2012 models.

[quencyjohn]

waiting patiently on the macbook air to be update
sometime this year its gonna happen for sure
until then I'm waiting
I'm sensing its gonna be juicy and nice

[ObjectiveMe]

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There is nothing special here. Apple has been doing the mid-cycle minor speed bump, minor price drop thing for the past several decades. The Retina Display Macbooks are still outrageously expensive in today's world. I used to be able to justify the high price of Macs by their longer useful lifespan and Macs were a better deal. But the new Retina MBs are not upgradable and become obsolete in 3 years and force a repurchase. Why is a three-year-old computer obsolete? I'm typing this on a 2006 Macbook.

I Agree. I just upgraded to a MacBook Pro with 13-inch Retina Display this Christmas, but thus far, I've been using a PowerMac G5. Long live computers!

[varase]

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Have you tried a 15" retina mbp? 2880x1800 pixels is a lot more real estate than the 17" had with 1920x1200.

No, the new MacBook Pro has got more dots, in a smaller area, not more screen real-estate. (It's sharper with a smaller screen.)

When you get older (or if you have a lot of detailed data), you need more square inches of screen.