looks like a good deal, $180 cheaper than RRP.
same model for $1787 @officeworks: http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-pro…
That would be cheaper if u can claim price match
Apple MacBook Pro MF839X/A Retina 13" 128GB SSD $1619 (RRP $1799) @ The Good Guys
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Dell's charging $1600 for about the same thing minus the super hi def display and only 4gb ram. This is about market price.
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/laptops/asus/asu…
JB has a good bargain on the Asus 256gb ram with 8gb ram for only $1273. But these models come and go on catalogues, you'll be lucky to find the specs you want at any time and this is probably clearance stock obtained before the dollar tanked.
If all you care about is the 128gb and part of the specs you can of course get something for <$800 made of cheap plastic with an awful wireless card, screen, touchpad and loaded with adware from Acer or something.
Might want to check your facts there.
Seems as if you're mixing up the MacBook Pro 13" and the MacBook Pro 13" w/ Retina Display.
Both the Good Guys link and the Officeworks link are the same machine, specific model number being MF839X/A.
The Retina Display model has a 2560 by 1600 screen, which is far superior to 720p.
It's also using a 5th Generation Core i5 @ 2.7GHz, not a 3rd gen as you put.
On top of that, the Asus is clocked at 1.7GHz, as opposed to 2.7GHz from the MacBook Pro, and no, that is not referring to its Turbo Boost speed.
The MacBook Pro you may be getting confused with is this one: http://www.thegoodguys.com.au/apple-macbook-pro-13-inch-md10…
It has a 3rd Gen i5 and a lower res screen (1280 x 800), but has a HDD as opposed to an SDD.
Yeah I noticed the product models but if you read the specs on the Good Guys site that is linked, they are not the same.
@burrt: The Good Guys specs are wrong. There is no such thing as retina Macbook Pro with 720p screen.
15% Laptop sale is over, the Asus is back to $1498, which is still a sale price apparently and pretty good value.
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/laptops/asus/asu…
Asus Taichi for $1398 has pretty similar specs to the MBP, same ram, same SSD capacity, 1440p screen, much weaker processor, slower SSD, decent construction the times I've seen it.
You can't justify the comment that people are being "ripped off". Be aware that comparing hardware specs with whatever cheapo netbook you can find is not accounting for the entire value proposition of a mac.
i have this same model, and it served me fine for nearly a year, now i've up ..or down graded to a 12" retina.
not everyone wants to cut 4k hi def 120fps videos of themselves yelling at a video game screen for youtube.
With Apple products you are paying more money for the "Operating System" + "Better build quality" rather than the specs.
Except iOS is inferior to Windows 10 in every single way except it excelling in the "OS for the computer illiterate" and "waste of money" category.
Computer illiterate? Like the people who think iOS is on Macbooks?
OS X* Both are made for idiots. If you want your child to become computer savvy, don't give them a macbook.
@tendollar: Your idea of computer savvy is a joke if your think Windows 10 will make you more savvy than OS X. Windows doesn't have have a mature package manager or native bash/ssh. Not that I expect you to even know what those mean.
Why do you need a native bash? Are you that incapable of running an .exe file to install something like Cygwin?
The moment that enterpise grade machines are running Apple software then you can talk. Keep supporting Apple and those rich few in the US and see where that gets you.
So that's basically 10% off.
Can officeworks beat this price by 5%? Im planning to buy one please someone suggest? And is it good to get apple care plan? Thanks
can't now, they have reduced their price down to 1619 now. :D
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-pro…Yes, you can if you are buying the 512GB Macbook Pro 2015 which Officeworks listed as $2487 vs $2249 with The Good Guys.
Hope it helps.
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-pro…
http://www.thegoodguys.com.au/apple-macbook-pro-with-retina-…
Id you install Windows in it, will it run just as fast as Windows laptops with the same specs?
Yes, just as fast. But you will lose the full trackpad functionality, there are software out there, which u can configure the trackpad to work similar to Mac OS.
For me, when surfing the net, Mac OS is great (smooth, nice graphic,no virus/malware,trackpad is great. When doing work, word/excel, I am leaning towards more into Windows. Microsoft Mac word/excel does look similar to Windows, but, slightly different, sort of slowing me down.
no virus
Uhhh…
No virus in the technical sense that there's no known piece of code that can spread itself onto OSX computers without tricking the user into giving it permission. Other than that OSX is still theoretically, statistically and practically more secure than Windows owing to its unix backbone.
Also the free software on Mac almost never contains adware, partially due to the way that installation is mostly drag and drop and partially due to the software being derived from the Linux community where they rarely tolerate these things.
Disclaimer: I'm a programmer using a PC at home and a Mac at work.
there's no known piece of code that can spread itself onto OSX computers without tricking the user into giving it permission
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/bug-in-latest-versio…
OSX is still theoretically, statistically and practically more secure than Windows owing to its unix backbone
Sources? While I don't doubt that OSX is more secure in places, it's unreasonable to boil it down to one OS simply being "more secure" than another.
Also the free software on Mac almost never contains adware
Again, sources? I don't disagree that there is a much lower occurrence of adware in installers, but when you consider the number of apps written for Windows vs those written for OSX, it's not surprising people would rather go for the larger market.
due to the software being derived from the Linux community where they rarely tolerate these things
No one who understands what adware is tolerates it, regardless of which community they're from.
@psyren89: Does a consumer have to worry about vulnerabilities discovered by academics in outdated versions of OSX which were only introduced because the programmers didn't follow the core practices they usually do? Also if there are fewer malwares floating around you are just statistically less likely to be infected, I'd consider that to be more secure in the same way that a capital city is safer than a war zone even though a bullet will tear right through you no matter where you are.
OSX/Unix simply have a better track record with security, neither are invincible and everyone is constantly patching up vulnerabilities.
outdated versions of OSX
Huh? The article specifically says 'latest version of OSX', '10.10'
which were only introduced because the programmers didn't follow the core practices they usually do
That's literally the definition of a security vulnerability. If you excuse that, you excuse every security vulnerability ever.
Does a consumer have to worry about vulnerabilities discovered by academics
This, however, is true. Not a real world example of a virus. Though it does show that exploits are possible.
@ProspectiveDarkness: I'm looking at the line "Developers didn't use standard safeguards", which seems to me like this kind of thing is fully accounted for in regular development. I would contrast this with more fundamental issues in underlying system design that make it difficult to secure something, like how autorun was easily abused.
Yes, Boot camp gives native performance.
It's $1519 at the Apple refurbished store, which is pretty good deal IMO.
Maybe a refresh is on the horizon, however these were only released in March though.
My reply to insular was deleted because it included a quote of their comment/post.
All I said in my comment was that there is a switch at the base of the page when viewing on a PC. If you click this switch, all the hidden posts will be visible.
$1619 for a laptop with a low end processor and 128 GB SSD?
Do people have some sort of mental illness? Do they not care they are being ripped off?