New MBP Retina
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I have one and this my set-up, forked out a fair bit of dough about 2 months ago. Overally the build quality is amazing, as is expected. It is a far superior machine to my previous HP Envy 17, which was peice of shit in comparison. I was working pretty much in a windows android world for a few years but decided to try apple recently, and so far am pretty impressed particularly with the level of integration across the apple product family (if you embrace it) So Mountain Lion is good too, but they really need to cut the skeumorphism shit, and some retina machines have had issues with how the integrated graphics switch when the machine comes out of sleep mode (black screen, requires hard reboot). Mine was doing it at the start but seems to be fine now.
On a side note I'm probably going to install windows 8 onto it just to see what it's like and to play some games on my steam account.
Thunderbolt display:
Powers laptop, secondary workspace, previous laptop 512gb SSD is fixed with double sided tape and plugged into the back as secondary harddrive. iPhone dock also plugged in.
Airport Extreme:
Speakers are plugged into this, audio goes via airplay (use headphones when doing audio work to avoid latency). 1.5tb notebook drive in enclosure also plugged in acts as time machine.
Speakers:
(got them on sale like $100 off at a local retailer :D)
Logitech wireless solar-powered keyboard:
Is awesome, I hope all manufacturers start making these to accomodate different keyboard design styles.
Logitech Marathon wireless mouse:
Rated for like 3 years battery life on 2 AAs.
Elevation iPhone dock:
Of kickstarter fame - a bit pricey but very solid and very practical.
- epic setup. wish could convince myself to spend money on a thunderbolt display...inteliboy