[Neuro_Gasm]

This is gonna be my last post lol. Don't want to derail this thread more.

But the SSD is much more expensive than much larger hard drives and will make the computer run faster at everything from starting up, launching applications, etc. It is one of the most important upgrades you can make on a computer. The difference is night and day.

Ram is one of the cheapest and easiest things to upgrade on a computer and won't make all that much difference.

The screen itself adds a significant amount to the cost to produce the computer, and is also one of the most important aspects. It is what you interact with every time you use it.

The new generation of Intel processors significantly improves battery life, along with OSX (mavericks in particular) being a much more power efficient operating system.

In addition, other reviews' battery tests have indicated that it lasts slightly longer than the 9 hours advertised.

Not to mention, on pretty much every review site, macs dominate their lists of top computers to buy and pretty much trounce the competition. Specs are only one part of the equation, and although macs are still competitive in terms of specs, it is the complete package that makes them great computers.

It's funny that I like macs, because on the other side of things I love android phones and completely loathe iOS. Apple takes much larger profits on its mobile devices than their macs, and I actually do think iPhones, iPads, etc are quite overpriced for what you get.

[Eetrab]

Don't forget they managed to squeeze all this into something less than 2cm tall and just a bit over 2kg. That is hard to do.

[river33]

Personally, I still think that the SSD price is a little overpriced as it is, but yes, it does add a lot of speed, not THAT much speed as you are putting it.

Also, I see no sources for any of this information. If anything, you could just be making up these "Over 9 hour" battery life consumptions.

As far as the ratings for the computer, it is an expensive computer, those ratings (most of them) don't actually rate the money/speed ratio.

[river33]

Also, just going to throw this on here as I have been doing more research.

Been seeing a lot of "There's not much difference between the 3rd generation and 4th gen cpus, the 4th gen cpus have different socket LGA 1150. There is a slight performance gain in the 4th gen cpus compared to the 3rd gen ones."

Source:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-17 ... ssors.html#.

Just a forum, I know.

[Tee]

"There's not much difference between the 3rd generation and 4th gen cpus, the 4th gen cpus have different socket LGA 1150. There is a slight performance gain in the 4th gen cpus compared to the 3rd gen ones."

True, but that's in the context of desktop processors and computers with discrete graphics cards. I would agree that for the typical gamer running an overclocked i5 3570K desktop with discrete GPU, the upgrade to an i5 4670K would not be cost justified as it would require both a CPU and motherboard purchase, and achieve only a 10% or so performance increase.

The real benefit of Haswell over Ivy Bridge is in the power consumption (down about 25%) and increased IGPU performance (up about 40%). These are seriously huge benefits for the ultrabook, notebook and tablet markets where long battery life and decent integrated graphics are critical.

[river33]

Well, nonetheless, I like your computer. I just don't agree with the price for it and some of the actions that Apple takes running their company.