Another thing to watch for at the Olympics...
Kevin Lee, chief executive of Sol Republic, said he did not know that Phelps would be wearing his company’s headphones during the Games. He said he was thrilled, but not surprised, that so many Olympians were using premium models.
If you're considering picking up a stylus the below is worth a read.
On Touch Screens, Rest Your Finger by Using a Stylus - State of the Art - NYTimes.com http://j.mp/NbI10R
Google Chrome 21 stable release adds Retina MacBook Pro support, webcam use without plugins
http://m.engadget.com/2012/07/31/google-chrome-21-stable-release-adds-retina-macbook-pro-support/
AppleTV just got Hulu Plus, which means on top of the TV shows, nearly all currently licensed Criterion films are available to stream (Criterion jumped over from Netflix streaming last year).
Hulu Plus kept me on Roku, but will probably switch now.
Are we sure about the existing RAM issues (as opposed to future-proofing)? Am considering the rMBP, but the only way I could pull it off would be to use work given Amazon GCs, thus eliminating the possibility of RAM customization through Apple (and the upper model is too expensive). Course there are a ton of pixels, but 8GB seems like a bunch of RAM for non-video editing/CAD operations. Hard for me to believe Apple would handicap their flagship laptop from the start.
Edit: Now that I look at the upper model its base is 8GB too.