New MacBook Pro's w/Retina abandons all conventional thinking, while abandoning legacy hardware in the process.

The new Macbook Pro w/retina may be the most forward thinking collection of parts that we have ever seen in a computer. And before you haters get on your job and do what you do best. I am speaking of the collective of technologies involved, yes these specs exist in other computers but not all of it together in one system as Apple has designed here. If you are geek, nerd, gadget head, or whatever classification of techie you call yourself, if you don't recognize this system as the Rolls Royce of notebooks your haterism has permanently affected your nerd core and and rendered you inoperable, and as such please turn in your  geek card immediately.

Death to Legacy

If you don't want this machine it's only because your a liar, or you can't afford it and therefore must hate on it.  No legacy technology exists on the machine as every technology present has had shelf life of 10 years or less except for Ram and CPU. Here we go take a look at the specs on the beast.

*Specs for lower-end 15inch version


Supported resolutions: 2880 by 1800 pixels (Retina); scaled resolutions: 1920 by 1200, 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, and 1024 by 640 pixels ( yes Diablo III will run @ 2880 x 1800 resolution but only OSX Lion and Mountain Lion


Processor: 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz) with 6MB shared L3 cache


Memory: 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memory


Storage: 256GB upgradeable to 768GB of Flash storage 


Size:  
Height: 0.71 inch (1.8 cm)
Weight: 4.46 pounds (2.02 kg)2


2 GPU's 
Intel HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics       switching
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on up to two external displays, at millions of colors


Thunderbolt digital video output
• Native Mini DisplayPort output
• DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter (sold separately)
• VGA output using Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter (sold separately)
• Dual-link DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (sold separately)


Camera: 720p FaceTime HD camera


Connections: 
• MagSafe 2 power port
• Two Thunderbolt ports (up to 10 Gbps)
• Two USB 3 ports (up to 5 Gbps)
• HDMI port
• Headphone port
• SDXC card slot
• Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (sold separately) ( yes Apple has abandoned the traditional ethernet port. 
• Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter (sold separately, available July)


Wireless: 
802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking;3 IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible
Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology


What's missing?
• No optical drive
• No standard hard drive
• No VGA ( external adapter)
• NO DVI (external Adapter)
• NO ethernet port (external adapter)

This is a completely modern platform, and for that reason this is not the notebook for everybody. If you are "old" and like "old" ports and "legacy" doohickies sorry, not for you. If you hate Macs for whatever your reasons. Why have you read this far? Go on get outta here.  If you like cords, things that are hard or difficult, or are predisposed to change, hater of shiny things, Linux or MS Fanboys, or just genuinely boring by nature. Check your pulse you mite be dead.