View single post by richw
 Posted: Sat Jun 16th, 2012 21:05
richw



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I just priced one up out of interest. When I bought my MacBook Pro I up specced the memory to 8Gb which more than doubled the cost, with the other options I chose it came to around $5.5K.

This model comes with 8Gb as standard and you can upgrade to 16Gb for not nearly as much as I expected. In fact with all the upgrades I wanted to build a machine that would smoke what I currently have it came to $3.5K. I was tempted, but as what I have is meeting my needs I'm going to wait at least another year (possibly two).

They seem to be selling other parts of a system rather than just upgrading the machine, so for example they are pushing NAS systems (thunderbolt driven). That is something I may be interested in as my Acer is quite slow and and pain to use (it takes multiple attempts and quite a while to get the MacBook to see it).