That's enough to keep it our pick of Apple's MacBook range, and while the everyman OS X user would likely be satisfied by the MacBook Air, the combination of flexibility, power, and battery life makes the 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina display our top choice for demanding mobile professionals.
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The 15-inch Pro may not quite be as portable as its 13-inch brethren, but it's still sufficiently slim and light to drop into a bag and carry day to day, and the upshot is a machine that's as at home whiling away the hours on an intercontinental flight with you as it is storming through media processing and gaming. 661-8302 Logic Board 2.0Ghz 8GB MacBookPro 15' Retina Late 2013 A1398 661-8302 175.00 85.00 : 661-8312 Right I/O Board for MacBook Pro Retina 15' Late 20 661-8312 19.00 6.95 : 661-8143 MacBook Pro 13' and 15' Retina (Late 2013/Mid 2014) Airport/Bluetooth card 661-8143 9.95 : 923-0666 Right I/O Coax Cable MacBook Pro Retina 15. What you sacrifice in battery life compared to the Air, you make up for in raw processing grunt and that glorious display.
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This 2013 upgrade to the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display refines Apple's powerhouse even more, however. The Air is still the mobility machine, perfectly poised to balance the processing demands of the average traveler with the sort of battery life they need. Now the Pro has had its own shot at Haswell, and if anything the waters are all the more muddied. Instead, Apple has decided that Intel's Iris Pro integrated graphics, part of Haswell, are sufficient for most purposes, not to mention coming with a useful reduction in power consumption. Whereas the old MacBook Pro with Retina display had NVIDIA discrete graphics across the board, now only the higher-spec version gets a standalone GPU. The most interesting change for this generation is in graphics. Storage starts at 256GB of flash on the entry-level 15-inch machine (with 512GB or 1TB optional) while the more expensive version gets 512GB as standard and 1TB as an option.
The $1,999 entry-level model has a 2.0GHz quadcore, paired with 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L memory (up to 16GB supported), while $2,599 gets you a 2.3GHz quadcore and 16GB of memory. For 2013 that means Intel's 4th-gen Haswell processors, with the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina getting Core i7 CPUs as standard (the 13-inch picks from the Core i5 range). If the exterior changes are minor, then it's under the hood that things have been mixed up.
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