I had one for about 3 days. Disappointed.
Sales told me. 'Just connect the old MBP up to the new one with this cable and transfer all your data to the new one"
Well, 12 hrs. later it finally finished.(I didn't have much on the old MBP. Read stories of it running 24 hrs.+)
That soured me.
Need to make sure 'sleep' mode and WiFi are turned off. I wasn't apprised of that.
Then the new retina MBP have no DVD drives. So you have to buy an external, $80.
Kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop, portability.
Apple's argument is everything is going to 'the cloud' or thumb drives or SD cards.
My cameras, including the one I just bought Fri. have their manual on a CD.
Tried transferring some programs. DVD to thumb drive, thumb drive to new MBP. PIA
Returned the new MBP and am using the one I bought in 2007.
Very, very disappointed with Apple.
You had a new Mac Pro desktop for three days? Interesting since it doesn’t ship til December.
Anyway, it sounds like you had some settings issues with a laptop, and the fact that cd/DVDs aren’t supported. Given that flash drives have far more capacity than the old cd/DVD formats; what difference does it make? Optical drive are going to go away and for good reason: limited capacity, they take up a large amount of physical space in whatever form factor they reside, and they suck power.
As for the manuals for your new camera, most everyone these days have PDF versions of manuals on their websites. I know Canon does, because I downloaded them onto my iPad and they reside in my iBooks app along with all sorts of manuals for appliances and whatnot.