{"id":12936,"date":"2015-11-29T18:49:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T23:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2015-11-29T18:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T23:50:56","slug":"longevity-of-the-retina-macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/29\/longevity-of-the-retina-macbook-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Longevity of the Retina MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.latenightsw.com\/?p=960\">Mark Alldritt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.latenightsw.com\/?p=960\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m here to report that I&rsquo;m <strong>still<\/strong> using this machine as my main development system.  I think this is now my favourite Mac laptop ever, displacing the Titanium PowerBook which held that spot for a long, long time.  Its still fast, its still thin, it still has a great screen, and from what I can tell it has a better keyboard than current MacBook Pro Retinas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mine is still going strong aside from the <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/retina-macbook-pro-burn-in\/\">image retention problem<\/a>. It definitely does not feel as slow at the 3.5-year mark as previous Macs I&rsquo;ve had. It&rsquo;s possibly the best Mac I&rsquo;ve owned, despite being a first-generation product. Mainly, I&rsquo;d like more RAM, a larger SSD, and the ability to drive a high-resolution external display. Current MacBook Pros are still limited to 16 GB of RAM, and the SSD has only increased from 750 GB to 1 TB.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Alldritt: I&rsquo;m here to report that I&rsquo;m still using this machine as my main development system. I think this is now my favourite Mac laptop ever, displacing the Titanium PowerBook which held that spot for a long, long time. Its still fast, its still thin, it still has a great screen, and from what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,100,83],"class_list":["post-12936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-retina"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12939,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}