Today was a banner day for new Apple goodness. We got a thinner, lighter, iPad—the iPad Air—as well as a new retina display iPad mini, new Haswell chip-packed MacBook Pros, and a deeper look at the new Mac Pros. Do you feel like you need a cheat sheet to keep track? We’ve got just the thing:
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Today, Apple presented to the world its new iPad Air and iPad mini, along with details about OS X Mavericks, updated MacBook Pros, and the Mac Pro. But why waste breath talking about all that when we can just enjoy it in series endless loops instead?
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Apple has just updated its online store with the new products it has been officially unveiling today at the iPad event we’ve been liveblogging. Most notably, Apple has eliminated the 15-inch MacBook Pro with optical drive, but kept on the 13-inch version due to its popularity among students. Featured front and above the fold, the […]
Apple has updated its 13- and its 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro laptops today, with changes that make both machines more powerful under the hood and that actually result in a size and weight savings for the already-svelte 13-inch Retina Pro.
The core of each update is the Intel Haswell processor, which adds considerable benefits in terms of battery life. This means that, combined with the OS X Mavericks release, the 13-inch model gets a more impressive nine hours of battery life, while the more powerful 15-inch version stays steady at an advertised eight hours.
Playing with both reveals little immediate observable difference for the 15-inch version, though it does seem speedier and generally more responsive. The 13-inch version is a big change, however – the 3.46 lbs compared to the 3.57 of the last generation may not feel like much, but combined with a thickness of just 0.71 inches, it feels like a lot, and will probably be even more impressive if you’re carrying one around with you every day.
Before this release, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display was essentially the best notebook on the market. Now, with a $200 price cut and an even slimmer profile, not to mention two Thunderbolt ports (which are gen 2) instead of just one, I’d say it stands a very good chance of retaining that crown.
It’s all-change in Mac land, and after the MacBook Air got its Haswell refresh earlier this year – to great effect – it’s the turn of the MacBook Pro with Retina display to be brought up to speed. Apple’s pixel-dense desktop replacement was always a powerhorse, at least in 15-inch form, but now gets Intel […]
It’s that time of the year when OEMs upgrade to the latest Intel processors and Apple is making its second move, and takes the opportunity to improve further by adding things like PCIe based SSD drives, and other goodies. Apple had previously updated its consumer line up (Macbook Air and iMac), but during today’s event, the “Pro” line was the center of the attention.
The industrial design of the Macbook Pro 13 has been slightly updated and is now thinner at 0.71”. The weight has been reduced a bit down to 3.46lbs, but overall, the look and feel remains nearly identical to the previous unibody design that has proven to be a blockbuster. The retina display remains identical and most of the changes are internal, including a trip back to 4GB of RAM. (more…)
Macbook Pro late 2013: Updated Nicely original content from Ubergizmo. 
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With the ushering in of new hardware on both the desktop and the mobile front, the folks at Apple this week have brought on a new collection of software updates as well. They’ve update iLife in full – working with new versions of iMovie, iPhoto, and Garageband for both iOS and OS X. These updates […]
It’s been a while since a new MacBook Pro has hit the market, so if you’ve been holding out for a long time waiting for a new model of Apple’s top-end laptop to hit, you’ll be happy to know that a new model has finally been announced.
The 2014 MacBook Pros have gotten a bump in processor speed, battery life and overall performance. Both the 13″ and 15″ have Retina displays, use fast PCIe Flash memory for storage, and also beefed up networking performance with 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Both models also offer a speedy Thunderbolt 2 connection, running at twice the speed of the prior port.
The new 13″ MacBook Pro is just .71″ thin, and powered by the latest-gen Intel Haswell i5 Dual-Core CPU. Graphics are powered by Intel Iris, which runs up up to 90% faster than the past generation. Battery life for the 13″ model is rated at a substantial nine hours. Prices for the 13″ MacBook Pro starts at $1299(USD), $200 less than the last generation. The base model includes a 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD storage.
The 15″ MacBook Pro runs a fast quad-core Intel Crystalwell i7 CPU and Intel Iris Pro graphics – with the option to upgrade to NVIDIA GeForce GT750M graphics. Battery life for the 15″ is rated at up to eight hours. Prices for the 15″ MacBook Pro start at $1999, vs. $2199 for the previous gen. That model includes a 2.0GHz i7 CPU, 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD.
All MacBook Pros ship with the latest and greatest version of Mac OS X, Mavericks pre-installed, and should be available from the Apple Store later today.
As anticipated, Apple upgraded its high-end MacBook Pro line of notebook PCs with the latest Intel Haswell processors.
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This week with the incoming wave of OS X Mavericks announcements came the official unveiling of the 2013 Intel Core (Haswell)-packing MacBook Pro lineup. This new push for the 4th generation of Intel Core technology also has the MacBook Pro readied to be the highest-end solution for users looking for notebooks from the OS X […]
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