Portable Samsung 9 series

[GoodBytes]

The reason why there isn't a 13inch Retina display option, is because the Intel GPU can't handle the high resolution. I've seen it at work and played for several hours (friend has it). If you force the Intel GPU, the experience is very choppy. You need a dedicated GPU with enough power.

[GoodBytes]

Originally Posted by Bladesingerz

I'll take the mac book pro into consideration, I rememberd that you can use an educational discount on it, you think I could apply for it in the usa? My collage isn't in the usa. I have no idea how they check these things..

Also what about gaming and other windows based progams, how would they work? Parrallels is one option right? Does it work well?

You can use a virtual machine like Parallels for your Windows apps, it's not great, but it's something. Its like using a virtual machine now.. same things. Parallels is 80$ software (they are no free solution like Parallels). And you need to dual boot with Windows 7 for games or if you want greater performance in your apps that you ran under Parallels on MacOS.

[mm vr]

Originally Posted by kenco_uk

Are there issues with the latest drivers?
http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p682/d...otcamp-drivers

You can't use the latest drivers with old hardware models, and the latest model will be an old model in a couple years.

Originally Posted by kenco_uk

You can use any SSD you like tbh. Some work with a trim software hack.

Those hacks are always required with Apple products... With Windows, everything just works!

Originally Posted by kenco_uk

Other's garbage collection routines are enough.

If you've just bought an SSD, you'll surely want to use it to its fullest.

[kenco_uk]

Originally Posted by mm vr

You can't use the latest drivers with old hardware models, and the latest model will be an old model in a couple years.

Same with any computer, to be fair.

Originally Posted by mm vr

Those hacks are always required with Apple products... With Windows, everything just works!

I agree, Windows is amazing in that it does simply install on pretty much anything, there's not a lot it'll grumble about. But the Apple hacks aren't required either. The ssd I installed in my mbp works fine without tinkering.

Originally Posted by mm vr

If you've just bought an SSD, you'll surely want to use it to its fullest.

As long as it supports trim

[mm vr]

Originally Posted by kenco_uk

Same with any computer, to be fair.

But in most cases the drivers work properly already at launch.

Originally Posted by kenco_uk

I agree, Windows is amazing in that it does simply install on pretty much anything, there's not a lot it'll grumble about. But the Apple hacks aren't required either. The ssd I installed in my mbp works fine without tinkering.

It works, but it won't TRIM in OS X.

[Sheiken]

Originally Posted by GoodBytes

The reason why there isn't a 13inch Retina display option, is because the Intel GPU can't handle the high resolution. I've seen it at work and played for several hours (friend has it). If you force the Intel GPU, the experience is very choppy. You need a dedicated GPU with enough power.

Check again please.

I find it pretty dissapointing, that there is so much mis-information in here regarding Apple products and I suspect that it is caused by nothing but bias towards one platform or the other.

[GoodBytes]

Originally Posted by Sheiken

Check again please.

I find it pretty dissapointing, that there is so much mis-information in here regarding Apple products and I suspect that it is caused by nothing but bias towards one platform or the other.

miss-information, or denial? I vote for denial by buyer remorse. This is a known issues, reviewers also confirm it. You want retina display, get the 15inch MacBook Pro with a dedicated GPU for a perfectly smooth experience.

[kenco_uk]

Originally Posted by mm vr

It works, but it won't TRIM in OS X.

In a few cases I suppose, which is why I picked one with its own garbage collection. It's no biggie though, once I feel performance drop off, I can fairly easily enable trim, run it, then disable it again until the next time I need to run it a few months down the line. Et voila, nice clean blocks again. It's a bit of a kludge, i.e. it doesn't run natively, but can be done without too much effort.

[mm vr]

Originally Posted by kenco_uk

In a few cases I suppose, which is why I picked one with its own garbage collection. It's no biggie though, once I feel performance drop off, I can fairly easily enable trim, run it, then disable it again until the next time I need to run it a few months down the line. Et voila, nice clean blocks again. It's a bit of a kludge, i.e. it doesn't run natively, but can be done without too much effort.

All this hassle just because the manufacturer has put effort into disabling TRIM on 3rd party disks... How can you put up with this? If any other company was doing it, nobody would buy their computers.