I have a MacBook Pro Retina with an SSD. I'd recommend both if you can afford it, but if you can only get one, go with the SSD. Solid State Drives are sooooo much better than the older ones. Without the Retina Screen you're only taking a hit to how things look on the screen, and even then it still looks fairly decent. Also, the extra 4GB of RAM is nice as well.
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It can get hot, but it's not usually so hot that it requires it to be shutdown. Normally repositioning it so that the vents are more exposed is satisfactory, and that's just when it occasionally starts to get a bit on the hot side. It's not much different then any other laptop I suppose.
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Ok. I just wanted to see how out of proportion they were making it since I hadn't seen anything like that with the non-retina. I'm probably going to wait until after the rumored October event in case they drop the price and/or announce a haswell rMBP.