

5.6 pounds) with about 37 percent less volumetric footprint. Compared to the traditional 15-inch MacBook Pro, the Retina model is about 25 percent lighter (4.46 vs. 68-inch (at its thickest) MacBook Air - though in practice, we found the Air to stand actually a little taller on a table when side-to-side because of the shorter rubber feet on the bottom of the new generation Pro. 71 inches thick uniformly, the MacBook Pro with Retina display is just a hair taller than the. Screen notwithstanding, the most impressive feat is how small and light the MacBook Pro with Retina is.

This is only visible in the story editor. $2,499), is it yet worth your attention? As we are wont to say, read on to find out.Įditor markup for MacBook Pro with Retina display review pictures. But even starting a few hundred dollars less than the one-time behemoth 17-inchâs base price ($2,199 vs.
REFURBISHED MACBOOK PRO 15 RETINA PORTABLE
Itâs the new gold standard for Appleâs portable lineup, the new aspirational peak. The base model starts at 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 with a GeForce GT 650M, 8GB RAM, and anywhere from 256GB to 768GB of flash storage. And thatâs without skimping on processing power â all of Appleâs 2012 models use Intelâs new Ivy Bridge chipset, and the 15-inch Pro models use Nvidia Kepler GPUs. Apple went even further, shrinking the body down to âas thin as Airâ dimensions thanks to some clever industrial design and a few sacrifices along the way. In fact, the company went out of its way to replace the ultra-premium tier with something even more covetous â namely, a 15-inch MacBook Pro with such a pixel-dense screen that the company put âRetina displayâ prominently in its name. Though Apple quietly discontinued the 17-inch MacBook Pro this week, hardly a tear was shed.
