anyone has experience here buying from mac city and that particular model totally ran out of stock ... waited for 1 week + for it already ><

at least they still pick up my calls but they couldnt give a definite arrival date..sigh

already paid in full to place the order and there's only mac city in melaka... why am i starting to regret not buying it in KL

3 braches actually XD but i went to the one in aeon bandaraya melaka..

cannot .. they said order liao cannot refund .. but from within one week then now they say 2 weeks..more than that im going up melaka and rage at their shop liao
delivery from KL or other branches to melaka takes so long meh or literally this 256GB model really ran out of stock in all mac city outlet.. anyone knows where which is their HQ?, i should prolly go there straight and inquire

can dont pay full to order meh? actually the problem is like this.. go mmu melaka buy.. but no stock in that outlet but they claim aeon still has one, so i can just pay full there and go aeon to collect. moments later they called me and said the aeon one got sold off while i was processing my payment .. hence i have to wait for the stock to arrive.. wadapaq

mac city.. already been more than 2 weeks and still no news about my standard config 256gb rmbp wtf!! not replying emails and only saying that stock will arrive in 1 or 2 weeks from date of purchase when i called and staright away put down the phone.

gonna go confront them tomorrow grrrr shitty shop! lied to me twice! im not gonna buy anything from them anymore after this and i suggest yall dont too..

finally received my rmbp ... after 2 weeks + of waiting ><

intel wont be coming out with their broadwell that soon so i doubt there will be any new revision macbook pro coming out (if there is then it wouldnt have much or any performance boost)... but there's a high possibility for a retina macbook air

after christmas or early next year (2015)

i wouldnt bet much on the possibilities of apple getting earlier stock than the launch date as everyone here wished that it is.. so broadwell mbp should be popping out around next year (have to wait for processor stock to reach their factory first to start the manufacturing process.. and of course they need to fill up their warehouse inventory first before selling).
take the current haswell mbpr as an example.. haswell enters market around may-june 2013.. late 2013 mbpr came out on november which is about 5 months gap

well you can wait for the september key note and see how it goes but i would just say buy it now if you need it.. or wait untill next year june for the broadwells

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Jun 22 2014, 12:27 AM

osx loves ram very very very much. it's a good thing actually but it gets full very easily if it's not enough and begin swapping to disk without you noticing, especially while using heavy applications. plus mbp retina's build in iris will use that same ram as well to give you display at 2560X1600 resolution. so do you think 4GB is enough?

for screen size..retina 13 can go to display option and make the scaled resolution up to 1650X1050 which is still readable (i use this setting all the time on mine). every icon will look tiny but it doesn't matter when you're working cuz you should be using shortcut keys anyways.

since you are a student and is really tight on budget, i will not suggest you getting the mbpr... you can prolly get a very powerful portable PC (bigger than laptop) at the same price and you can game/download/render 24/7 as they all have very good cooling system...albiet a little heavy, ok, maybe twice the weight .
also using macbook may be diff from your uni syllabus and if you're not the type who does self learning, you will have tons of problem later... unless your school teaches in macs then you have no choice (most institutes that teaches with macs usually bundles it into the school fees as learning material anyways).

get a macbook only if you have a workstation already/ have budget for mid/higher spec model/ the need for OSX environment... no point wasting your money to use the mac in bootcamp windows and have it around solely to impress some college hotties and eat maggi mee the rest of the day...cuz trust me, you wont get any chicks with it, i tried

depends on the software.. those with KUDA or OpenCL support then yes, get one with a nice card that supports it (FYI CUDA = nvidia and OpenCL = ATI). you can get about an honest 80-90% faster frames per second(depending on gpu)... but the drawback is that it stresses the GPU and most laptop dedicated GPU have inadequate cooling.. which is why i would suggest a portable PC.. something big and fat like toshiba qosmio or those msi gaming or alienwares ..those which comes with a huge ass heatsink fan but battery that will last for only 2hours due to raw power. you wouldn't be running on battery for rendering or designing anyways.

photoshop nowadays have gpu acceleration as well and for newbies who tend to use alot of filters and rendered effects, it helps a little.. although im doing very fine without it on my macbook...but when it comes to rendering videos, it cant be compared to my work station due to CUDA.
and students .. confirm assignments are always last minute rush... so faster rendering time = better chances to apply corrections on mistakes so do consider one with a GPU. it saves yours (and also your group mates) life.

if you insisted to get ultrabook.. just buy macbook air/base model pro lar.. they're about the same price range and very similar performance ..ultrabooks are expensive for their size, portability and battery operation lifespan (just like macbooks)

yep go see for yourself ... mostly at 3.4-4K range ....but some ultrabooks have touchscreens compared to MBA/P which i think what makes the price become similar and sometimes more.

Y50 is a nice choice. .. can play games on ultra settings with 20+ fps sommore...

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Jun 23 2014, 01:07 PM

no issues for me with CC... just turn off GPU acceleration which fixes the laggy photoshop, however it will give you more problem if you render alot of effects cuz using more CPU. i seldom use heavy filters/effects... mostly add noise and liquify only.. thats why i got no problems.

render then rasterise lo...keeping the effect there of course will lag. even very powerful PC will lag also, just not as bad.... however rasterising = finalising, so beginners will have problems as they are still not sure with the final outcome so they tend to not rasterise and then lag and crash.

personally i have a PC for more hardcore stuff like rendering videos that might take 5-6 hours...my mac is for the luxury to do lighter stuff like programming or template designing anywhere..or as a really expensive powerbank when im outside . when required, i have my main PC which means i dont depend solely on my mac...however i use my mac most of the time as i don't usually require that much power and i can lay down on the bed with it.... cuz im not really a designer, im just stealing their jobs, occasionally .

as you know. the mbp late 2013 has only 1 fan now and it will be quite hot under heavy load and obviously bad if put to stress for a prolonged time..... so use it wisely and it should be ok (monitor temp and pause job if getting too hot, save and restart if it begin to swap alot etc..)

800g you wont fill much diff in the bag wan la.. it's like adding a 800ml bottle of water only. regardless, if carried for a long time both will end up weighing about the same .. and i dont think you will be carrying it around everywhere you go.. malaysia not safe le suddenly tio rob then sian.... that's why sometimes i carry my mac in an eco shopping bag as decoy

This post has been edited by Bonchi: Jun 28 2014, 12:03 AM

or buy a imac .. that one sure no problem

get normal laptop first as a you dont have a powerhouse yet.. what's more youre still a student and youre still unsure.. and your course should be teaching in windows.

give it a year or so (and when ptptn money comes in... yes, i know ) then only get the mac you wanted which by then.. it will be a broadwell, and also there is a macbook air retina by then.
and you dont have to worry about windows cuz you still have your windows workstation

however in all honesty i will heavily suggest you getting a desktop.. yes its going against all the previous suggestion but it's for the budget and ease of maintenance and upgrades.


This post has been edited by Bonchi: Jun 28 2014, 06:49 PM

why do you want to close your retina display and use another monitor.. that's blasphemy

anyways you can try ikea's plate holder.

just get ori one la.. rm99 only

3rd party solely ethernet, never seen before but instead they came like a dock with multiple usb ports, display out, ethernet, and a bunch of other stuff.. but price very "nice"

of course get the one with the GPU.. else why not just go for the higher spec 13" with 512GB SSD and upgrade to 16GB ram.. besides the quad core, you dont get significant features with the amount you paid extra for the 15".

small rendering not that noticeable .. huge ones then quad core yields close to 2X the performance but... you sure you wanna do it on the macbook
well since you mentioned rendering, then there's even more reasons to get one with dedicated GPU altho im not sure if OSX have softwares with cuda support.

applecare of course worth to get.. and you dont have to get it on the spot. you can wait maybe almost 1 year then you extend the warranty with applecare

since you're on to go... you can check out amazon EC2 altho im not sure if it works with what youre doing but yea.... not many ppl know about this awesome service