Low or high spec MBP with retina

Zyzzyva said:
By this time next year all mac laptops will have retina screens.
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Hopefully not if they're going to solder everything and use up all the spare space with a battery.

Raevinn said:
Upgrading the normal spec 15 inch mbp to have 8gigs ram and a 256gig ssd makes it even more expensive than the low spec mbp with rd
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Do it yourself.
 
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dequadin said:
The RAM and CPU in this machine IS NOT UPGRADEABLE (soldered to the motherboard). The only upgradeable component is likely to be the HDD - similar to the third party ones for the MB Air. So please stop suggesting that.
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I saw the vid - The Flash storage is built in, ie not upgradeable.
 
xera said:
I saw the vid - The Flash storage is built in, ie not upgradeable.
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Yes it is, it's a plugable module and 3rd party companies are already working on it.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Display-Teardown/9462/2
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Step 10
Now we are getting to the good stuff, starting with the SSD. We found a 512 GB Samsung flash memory module.
The chips are marked:
Samsung S4LJ204X01 3-core ARM SSD controller chip - revision seems newer than 830-series SSD
Samsung 213 K9UHGY8U7A 20nm MLC NAND chips
Samsung 201 K4T263140F 256MB DDR2-800 cache memory
Proprietary flash memory is nothing new to Apple. It is, however, new to the MacBook Pro lineup.
 
The base model is pretty much perfect. 8gb is enough for OS X generally, especially with such a fast SSD, but if you really need the extra power go for 16gb. I'm very sure you'll be able to upgrade the SSD in the future, SSD's for the MacBook Airs came out not too long afterwards.
 
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