Overpriced Apple MacBook Pro MD212LL/A

Overpriced for what you get, unless you consider the Apple logo worth about $400.

Awesome machine if you are editing high resolution images. Otherwise, doesn't really offer much compelling new features/capabilities/power over a good quality PC notebook at half the price - and I own both Macs and PCs.

There's a screen resolution race going on the past year similar to the digital camera megapixel race. Makes for great looking specs, but practical benefits are seen in only a very few specific applications. Consider this, the average website is designed for a 1024x768 display, including Apple's website itself. Therefore the images used within the web page layouts of virtually all websites are sizes like 300x200 or 600x400 at most. All a super high resolution screen does is either a) make everything look tiny (especially on a 13" screen), or, b) cause the O/S and/or browser to basically have to scale everything up. In other words, a 600x400 photo on a blog post of a website looks no better on a $1,600 notebook than a $400 notebook with half the resolution. A super high resolution photo that takes up the entire screen would be another story.

Apple notebooks are beautiful and highly capable pieces of hardware, but at these prices, they are also essentially status symbols for users with deep pockets.

At this point in time, anything over 1080P HD movie resolution of 1920x1080 is pretty pointless for your average consumer. Just a bunch of numbers to brag about and charge more for.

Product Features
2.5 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz) with 3MB shared L3 cache
8 GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memory
128 GB Flash Storage
13.3 inch LED-backlit Retina display, 2560-by-1600 native resolution, Intel HD Graphics 4000
Mac OS X Mountain Lion, 7 Hour Battery Life

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By Sam Bravern