Apple Discontinues 15-inch Non-Retina MacBook Pro, Leaves 13-inch Version in Lineup

Old tech has to eventually disappear.

Don't tell that to the iPad 2. :)

No antiglare left then...?

*Sigh* I really wanted my next MacBook Pro to be an updated 15" non-retina. It feels like 2006 all over again.

I'm just going to put money aside for a base Mac Pro then. I've finally grown out of the consumer market. :(

there goes DIY upgrades...

Also sad to see this (But I knew it was inevitable). I went to the trouble of sourcing a 2011 MBPro with Matte screen just under a year ago. Fitted with a 512Gb SSD and 8GB RAM it is very fast indeed - should see me through many more years.

And the best bits?
1. Non-refelctive screen
2. FW800 and Ethernet without adapters etc.
3. DVD drive (for the rare times I need it - or can be replaced with a SSD too!)

Apple giveth ($200 cheaper overall base models), Apple taketh away ($500 for 1TB SSD upgrade).

;)

500$ for 1TB ssd is really not bad :)

Cool ! that's gonna make mine worth more. hehe

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features-retina/


I'll always wonder if Ive hadn't lost weight, then maybe, we wouldn't have so many Apple products with reflective screens.

The Retina displays are still way too glossy for my taste [as a photographer and video editor]. I use a matte [non-gloss], hi-res screen. The pixels shown on screen are actually *more* than the Retina [since the retina doesn't allow true native resolution - it *does* produce a much sharper image, but 4 pixels are taking up space that in a non-retina display, one pixel would - so you don't gain any more screen real-estate. However, in the hi-res versions of the 15" [both glossy and matte screens], you gain a LOT more screen real-estate, meaning you can fit more of one's image on the screen [or more of the UI of a UI-heavy app like FCP or certain layouts in PhotoShop].

The biggest reason for the matte screen though - color calibration. It is very, very hard to get accurate color on the semi-gloss screen of the retina displays.

My personal pet peeve with the retina display - while not as gloss as the "default" non-retina display, it is still glossy enough to be able to see my reflection when working in the shadow areas of photos. That's distracting to me. I don't have that problem at all with the hi-res matte screen MBP of mine.

[plus, i can watch DVDs, which i still own a ton of, record DVDs of photos for clients [which they always want], and i have a ton of ports on the side of the laptop - only thing missing is an SSD, but I could probably replace the HD for an SSD one day when the prices for a 1TB SSD go down].

Sad about the outcome of the event.

there goes DIY upgrades...

DIY was nice. You could squeeze a few more years out of your machine by updating the memory and HD. You also could shop around for price and quality vs what Apple gives you.