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Originally Posted by xenigo
When we talk about products like these, we're not talking about "need". If it was need we were talking about, we'd all go and buy $300 Acer notebooks with Celeron processors from Walmart. We'd all drive Ford Festivas, and live in 400 sq foot homes made by Ikea. In this case, actually when it comes to any Apple product... we're talking purely about personal indulgences, and self satisfaction.
2880 x 1800 15" IPS display gives you 220ppi. It's the pixel density that makes it absolutely gorgeous. The 27" display looks great too, but it's a lower resolution and a MUCH lower pixel density.
So yeah, nobody "needs" it... But I certainly will love owning one.
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I personally can't be bothered spending 5x the amount of money for the same hardware - minus the retina display in this case - that PC's use.
Mac's use the same intel processors that PC's use; the same RAM; flash storage != ssd and sucks imho and is also the same as used in cheap netbooks. Sure, their motherboards are 'custom' but that's generally only the form factor as - the last time I checked - the company who manufactures them also manufactures PC motherboards. The hard drives are the same, as are the video cards... pretty much everything but the chassis and software are nothing but severely overpriced PC parts.