The 15-inch MacBook Pro offers a native screen resolution of 1440 by 900 pixels, along with nearly a dozen supported resolutions at 16:10, 4:3, and 3:2 aspect ratios. Or, to be precise, it’s an absolutely gorgeous, powerful hunk of anodized aluminum that can easily serve as a desktop model, should you choose to attach a Thunderbolt display to it. It’s less than an inch thick, but its dimensions and heft more than compensate for its svelte frame: It measures 14.35 inches by 9.82 inches, and at 5.6 pounds-at least by today’s MacBook Air and iPad standards-it is a humongous beast. The first thing that stands out about the 15-inch MacBook Pro is its size and weight. In comparison, the new Retina MacBook Pros start at $2199 and $2799.
Pricing from the previous models has stayed the same: The new 13-inch base models are $1199 and $1499, while the new 15-inch base models are $1799 and $2199. Your choice between the 13-inch and the 15-inch models depends on the strength of your arms and back, your need for screen real estate, your taste for higher resolution visuals, and your budget. With both the 13- and the 15-inch versions, you can easily replace the hard drive and RAM at any point. Unlike the new Retina models-where everything is fixed into place, and where you must make decisions on what you’ll need down the road at point of purchase-the regular MacBook Pros of both sizes can be customized with do-it-yourself parts, just like their predecessors. The new MacBook Pros offer the same unibody construction, backlit LED screen, lighted keyboard, multi-touch glass trackpad, and FaceTime HD Web cam as the previous models, but push ahead with updated internal architecture for improved performance. While this review covers only the non-Retina lineup of 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros, it’s inevitable that some of that Retina sheen has rubbed off on the regular models. Now, it’s the Retina display model that caters to the creative crowd, the MacBook Pro that covers the consumer mid-market that places a premium on traditional laptop features, and the Air, which caters to a swiftly expanding group that values a combination of portability and increasingly speedy performance. With the introduction of the Retina MacBook Pro, Apple has re-created its consumer laptop category-or rather restored the one that it had removed with the demise of the mid-market MacBook in 2011. This crowd appreciated the MacBook Air’s friendly specs for traveling light (even if it was just from the bus stop to the office or class). This class of users, though not creative in the strict definition of “creative pro,” still requires substantial computing power, though not necessarily a super high-resolution display-or the price tag that goes with it.Īpple had developed three laptop models for three distinct sets of buyers: The MacBook was a consumer model for general users the MacBook Pro catered to a higher-end crowd of creative professionals and the MacBook Air was there for a smaller group for whom portability outpaced all other traditional notebook appurtenances like an optical drive, spinning hard disk, and multiple connection choices. To grasp the regular MacBook Pro’s still-significant appeal is to consider the specific needs of Apple’s mid-market target audience of non-visually oriented professionals. These new “regular” models offer a speed boost over their late-2011 predecessors thanks to brand new processors and video components, and feature updated technology, including USB 3. In addition to the Retina MacBook Pro-the justifiable new standard against which Apple’s other laptops (indeed all laptops) will now be judged-the company has also updated a pair of 13-inch and a pair of 15-inch non-Retina MacBook Pros. With all the exhilaration surrounding the debut of Apple’s pioneering Retina MacBook Pros, it’s easy to overlook that the company also upgraded the rest of its pro laptop lineup.
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