Apple ’s mellow - settlement Retina showing now comes in another portable configuration , as the fellowship unveil a 13 - inchMacBook Prowith Retina presentation on Tuesday that complements the 15 - inch model introduced over the summertime .
The 13 - in Retina MacBook Pro sports a show with a resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels , a immense 4 - times increase over the 1280 by 800 resolution on the13 - inch MacBook Proreleased in June . The 13 - in Retina MacBook Pro display has a total of 4,096,000 pixels , which Apple says is nearly twice the number of pixels in a HDTV .
The 13 - inch Retina MacBook Pro ’s sieve is an in - plane switching panel , which permit for a blanket look at slant . Apple says the display has a 29 percent higher contrast ratio when compared to the previous model , as well as 75 percent limelight simplification .
The 13 - inch MacBook Pro with Retina display ( right ) joins the 15 - inch Retina display modelling in Apple ’s portable lineup .
Like the15 - inch MacBook Pro with Retina displaythat debut four months ago , the young 13 - inch Retina laptop has two Thunderbolt ports . The Thunderbolt port and two USB 3.0 port are the principal boulevard of connectivity , as the newfangled laptop no longer has the ethernet and FireWire 800 ports found on the received 13 - inch MacBook Pro model . The new laptop computer also has no optical drive , but it does have an SDXC card one-armed bandit .
The 13 - inch Retina Macbook Pro is 0.75 inch slight ; according to Apple , that ’s 20 percentage thinner than the regular 13 - inch MacBook Pro . The new laptop computer consider 3.5 British pound , which is a pound calorie-free .
Apple says that the unexampled laptop has 7 hours of assault and battery life .
Two models
Apple will offer two models of the 13 - inch Retina MacBook Pro . The $ 1699 good example has a 2.5GHz dual - core Core i5 processor , 8 GB of memory , and 128 GB of jiffy storage . A $ 1999 model is available with the same processor and memory board conformation , but with 256 GB of flash storage . Apple offer construct - to - order options that include an upgrade to Core i7 mainframe and 768 GB of ostentation computer memory .
The 13 - inch Retina MacBook Pro is an increase to the MacBook Pro line . Two versions of the 13 - inch MacBook Pro with a received showing persist usable at prices of $ 1199 and $ 1499 .
According to Apple CEO Tim Cook , Apple has the best - selling laptop computer in the United States . Of the Retina MacBook Pro , Apple Senior VP of Marketing Phil Schiller said that , “ it is the best display house in the best notebook design we have ever made . ”
update at 11:08 a.m. PT with more details . Updated at 11:35 a.m. PT with more mental image and detail .
