I only got a small amount of time to mess with the retina display, but was really impressed by the display quality. I am spoiled by having 1080 displays like the 17.3" LED 1920x1080 display on my Asus, so it's hard to go down to something like 1440x900 like normal on the 15" MacBook Pros. I also wanted the display as it will make working with photographs easier, especially when getting to higher resolution photos (my camera takes in the 3xxx*2xxx range easily)

I will have to buy a thunderbolt FireWire and Gigabit Ethernet adapter. Not very happy that they ommited a basic ethernet adapter to save space and they don't include the adapter by default for something I consider a basic essential on a pro machine.

So I will be dropping $70 with tax on something I expect to be essential that apple has touted as "The greatest thing since sliced bread" over the last 10 years. FireWire was a failed experiment, but they are backpeddling now and now forcing you to pay more for what used to be on a mac.

I will find the thunderbolt ports useful, At least there are two of them, so I can have ethernet and FireWire in use at the same time.

From what I saw online, the SSD is a card that is removable. So in the future I am sure there will be third party companies that will be making clones/upgrades of them.

In the next two months, I will spring for the warranty on the laptop. Don't have $350 after dropping that much for a warranty at the same time.