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Best Buy has the MacBook Pro with Retina Display MC975LL/A Core i7 15.6" Laptop (Summer 2012) for $2090 with free shipping. Currently backordered 7 to 30 days. Features the Retina Display with 221 ppi and IPS panel, two Thunderbolt ports and HDMI output.
Intel Core i7 Quad 2.3GHz, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
Intel HD Graphics 4000 & NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
15.4" LED (2880 x 1800), 2 x USB 3.0, BT 4.0, Mac OS X 10.7
$2090
Beautiful, drool-worthy screen, but they solder the RAM to the motherboard and use a proprietary SSD? Yick.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Retina-Display-Mid-2012-Teardown/9462/2#s36205
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Retina-Display-Mid-2012-Teardown/9462/2#s36196
dorian49 - That's how they got it so thin.
should I spend $2500 dollars on a laptop that would only be good (literally) for two years!!!???
zonker, I'm not buying it. Sure, maybe you gotta solder the RAM to save a quarter inch (doubt it), but why couldn't they use a mSATA SDD? Check out the picture on the second link I posted in comment 1. The proprietary SSD looks like it's the same size as an mSATA SSD.
You have the wrong CPU model in the description, Ben. This model which is a base Retina MacBook Pro has an i7-3615QM 2.3GHz/3.3GHz Turbo CPU. The high end model with the 512GB SSD that's $2,799 on Apple's site is the one with the i7-3720QM 2.6GHz/3.6GHz Turbo CPU. I also don't get why you have SuperDrive in bullet #2 because isn't that the Apple term for optical drive which this laptop doesn't have.