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With the new Retina Macbook pro's* you can't upgrade it yourself, as everythings glued in at factory stage, so adding in extra ram, upgrading HDD isn't possible anymore, so you've got to pay the apple premium at purchase and go have it souped up for much dinero, whereas previously you could skimp on ram and HDD and then upgrade later if you needed to..
*Apple may produce a retina macbook pro which you can still upgrade but I haven't seen it..
cornelius_blackfoot
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I only need to "express complex thoughts effectively" through the content of my work. I can make the work with a small selection of simple, long-established applications. I only need simple interfaces to make lines, shapes, colours and words. I'm not a computer guy, that's not my trade. I do however need the hardware to be able to handle lots of hefty files such as heavy vector drawings, big high-res documents, renderings blah blah blah.
This conversation always comes up with regard to Macs. IT-inclined people seem to imagine that civilians don't understand the limitations of Macs. I do. I just wanted to know if anyone had any advice about whether go right to the top of the range or skimp a bit, specifically with regard to the Nvidia GeForce GT 750m discrete graphics card. I think I'll do as a few have suggested and go all-out in the hope that it will stay relevant for longer.