Apple’s new 13 and 15 inch retina display MacBook Pro line

Intel Haswell CPUs, Thunderbolt 2 and Retina display these are some of the important features the 13 inch and 15 inch MacBook Pro line, so let’s not get impatient and take a closer look to these two laptops.

 

If we start weighing them we see from the start that there lighter with a starting weight of 3.46 pounds for the 13 inch version and 4.46 pounds for the 15 inch version. There are also thinner both being 0.71 inch thick.

 

Under the hood we see fourth generation dual-core for 13 inch version and quad-core for 15 inch version. The 13 inch version comes loaded with 4GB and 8GB where the 15 inch with 8GB and 16GB. Both can be configurable to 16GB. Like MacBook Air here we see the new Iris Graphics for the 13 incher and Iris Pro or combined with NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB GDDR5 with graphics switching capability. Storage for these two starts from 128GB till 1TB flash storage. They also feature the same 720p FaceTime HD camera. We also find two USB 3 ports, headphone port, two Thunderbolt 2 ports, SDXC card slot, HDMI port and a MagSafe 2 port. Now arriving at the wireless area we see the new wireless ac standard and Bluetooth 4.0 technology.

Even though these laptops have been on a weight loss program the batteries are capable of giving 71.8 watt-hour and 95 watt-hour for the 13 and respectively 15 inch versions with an autonomy of 9 and 8 hours and a standby of 30 days.

The price for the 13 inch version starts at $1299 and can reach $1799 whereas for 15 inch version it stars from $1999 and reaches $2599. These prices are set for the base versions.