Apple’s new MacBook Pro 2012 with Retina Display is so popular that it sold out almost immediately after it was released at the keynote address of Apple’s WWDC this Monday.
The 15.4-inch Retina MacBook Pro starts at $2,199, which is quite expensive given that the gloomy economic climate. But this didn’t change people’s enthusiasm for a high standard notebook with an Apple logo.
The delivery date of the Retina MacBook Pro 2012 was pushed back two or three weeks from the original plan of five to seven days. An almost one month wait to receive the new product is not an easy thing for Mac fans to endure. Buying them immediately once they're available is the rule every Apple gadget lover has lived by before.
Apple's discontinuation of the 17-inch MacBook Pro, and lack of an update for the 13-inch were prime factors resulting in the current craze for the high resolution MacBook Pro.
The new MacBook Pro boasts a 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor and a powerful graphics processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching.
But it's the 2880x1800 pixel display that brought the notebook a flood of pursuers.
Analysts are eager to publish their reviews of the beloved computer, with dozens of teardown reviews and tests on high–resolution–demanded games posted online.
Brian White, an analyst with Topeka Capital Markets, said the Retina display was "the highest-resolution notebook display" available and called the notebook a "work of art".
Macworld used the word "mindblowing" to describe the screen.
To spend over $2,000 on a notebook and receive it a month later may raise some eyebrows, but it won't stop Apple lovers.