2013 Haswell Retina MacBook Pro...

glenimp617 · 13 Nov 2013 at 16:13

jonney, bet you're pleased you went with the 15" now

MagicBoy · 13 Nov 2013 at 16:15

rp2000 said:
I'm buying one of these very soon.

Any chance you can play a HD file from youtube or iPlayer for like 5 minutes and see what effect it has on the fans? (I know OS X and adobe flash don't play nice, just want to see if extra oomph in the CPU and GPU and Mavericks have helped in this regard).

rp2000

They fixed that a while back. My 2011 MBP stays on integrated graphics and doesn't utter a murmur with CPU running at 5-10%, where my older machine had the fans screaming after a minute or so.

jonneymendoza · 13 Nov 2013 at 16:16

glen8 said:
jonney, bet you're pleased you went with the 15" now

indeed i am

Xinn · 13 Nov 2013 at 16:34

Is there any way to stop Safari from refreshing pages when I go back or forwards, it's really annoying.

rp2000 · 13 Nov 2013 at 17:57

glen8 said:
I watched a 35GB BluRay ISO on it and the fans never came on

That said, when importing a handful of photos in iphotos they did

That was pre EFI update so not sure if they fixed it. Still, video watching seems solid as far as fans are concerned

Spit said:
Was watching 1080p Xbox One videos on YouTube full screen for ages last night. Hardly got warm and the fans did not kick in.

rMBP 2013 is much improved from last year.

MagicBoy said:
They fixed that a while back. My 2011 MBP stays on integrated graphics and doesn't utter a murmur with CPU running at 5-10%, where my older machine had the fans screaming after a minute or so.

Thank you all! It's replacing an early 2008 mbp

rp2000

nolimit · 14 Nov 2013 at 00:02

Had a play with the new retina MBP 13" at Apple store and one word WOW!

I'm going to order mine within the next 10 days, can't wait.

What's the waiting time like?

ninja2000 · 14 Nov 2013 at 06:47

nolimit said:
Had a play with the new retina MBP 13" at Apple store and one word WOW!

I'm going to order mine within the next 10 days, can't wait.

What's the waiting time like?

It can depend on which option you choose. My mbpr 13 2.4/8/256 was showing as despatched within 24hrs on the site. I bought on a sunday night and received thursday morning

jonneymendoza · 14 Nov 2013 at 09:38

nolimit said:
Had a play with the new retina MBP 13" at Apple store and one word WOW!

I'm going to order mine within the next 10 days, can't wait.

What's the waiting time like?

16gb versions will take a month. I had to cancel mine and grab the 15inch from app store

Rilot · 14 Nov 2013 at 11:15

Is anyone else getting high CPU usage in Chrome while watching videos or scrolling web pages? Safari is fine though.
I'd use Safari but I can't seem to find certain extensions that are useful for moderating this forum of ours.

lamboman · 14 Nov 2013 at 12:44

Rilot said:
Is anyone else getting high CPU usage in Chrome while watching videos or scrolling web pages? Safari is fine though.
I'd use Safari but I can't seem to find certain extensions that are useful for moderating this forum of ours.

How high are we talking? Unfortunately Chrome uses much more power than Safari, so you'll find that battery life will be a fair bit worse under Chrome.

Rilot · 14 Nov 2013 at 13:02

For example. This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PDXmYoF5U

In Chrome, the Chrome helper service shows as 50% CPU in Activity Monitor.
The same video in Safari shows as 10% CPU.

jagdesign · 14 Nov 2013 at 20:10

Also went for the 13 2.4/8/256 and loving it, although still kind of wondering if I should've gone for the 16GB.

Only complaint so far is Skype seems to absolutely nail the battery! Had a 50 min video call last night and it used about 40% of the battery with nothing else running and screen brightness around halfway! CPU load was going crazy, fan kicked in and the area around the vents got seriously toasty.

Deyvy · 15 Nov 2013 at 05:32

Gibber said:
Sorry if this has been asked a million times before but can anybody recommend a decent hardshell case to protect a 15" RMBP?

My 2010 MBP got quite a battering through not having it protected and really I'd rather not have my rMBP receive the same treatment!

I've used Speck hard shell cases for my last two MacBooks. I like them. And will buy another for my next one.

Gibber · 15 Nov 2013 at 06:07

Deyvy said:
I've used Speck hard shell cases for my last two MacBooks. I like them. And will buy another for my next one.

I had considered the Speck cases and am a bit of a speck fan myself as I've always used their cases on my iPhones, however I've seen reports that they crack around the edges after a while? Have you ever noticed this issue at al?

jonneymendoza · 15 Nov 2013 at 10:03

i think thats the one i got as well. The Speck hard case. i got it from the apple store

glenimp617 · 15 Nov 2013 at 10:52

VLC released an update for Mavericks yesterday

Now you can go full screen without kernel panics

Space Cowboy · 15 Nov 2013 at 12:16

My 16GB 13" which was originally delayed for 1 month (shipping 12th December) is now 'preparing for despatch' with a delivery date of Monday 18th Nov. So it looks like the RAM modules came through quicker than expected.

jonneymendoza · 15 Nov 2013 at 12:23

Space Cowboy said:
My 16GB 13" which was originally delayed for 1 month (shipping 12th December) is now 'preparing for despatch' with a delivery date of Monday 18th Nov. So it looks like the RAM modules came through quicker than expected.

mine said the sae so i canceled it and got the 15inch instead

glenimp617 · 16 Nov 2013 at 13:27

I can confirm the latest version of VLC is a million times better

I've gone between windowed and full screen no end of times without a single kernel panic

jonneymendoza · 16 Nov 2013 at 15:12

loving my 15inch. excellent.

Just installed Lightroom 5.

But all my images are in my main desktop PC at my dads house LMAO