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MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013. 2.3 GHz i7, 16GB, 512GB running OS X Mavericks (10.9.5).

I almost nothing bad to say about this machine, in fact I love it. I run Windows and Linux VMs through VMWare Fusion for work and for personal development. It's nice having one machine to handle all of these tasks.

The one downside is that the battery life can be pretty low depending on what I have running on my Windows VM so I find myself taking my charger with me everywhere nowadays.

Edit: I purchased it refurbished and saved about $400. No issues whatsoever. It was indistinguishable from New save for the packaging which was just a plain white box shipped from Apple. I have AppleCare and have extended it beyond the initial 1 year warranty that came with the machine.




Conversely, I have the 13" model with these specs (i5 not i7, though) and I was able to get from Toronto to Vancouver and watch a TV show for the whole 5 hours. This was a year after I bought it too, so the battery had some wear. I tend to bring my charger if I'm going to be using it for extended periods of time, but I have no problem getting 5-7 hours on it if I'm not doing anything CPU intensive.

Best computer I've ever owned.


>> Best computer I've ever owned.

I can definitely say the same thing.

Regarding battery life, I am extremely impressed with the amount of use I can get out of it when using just OS X with no VMs running processes. ITunes is a battery hog, but most other uses will give me 6 hours at least, now 2+ years later.




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