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I'm down afternoon and we are here taking a look at the brand new 2013 edition of Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro this is the model with the Retina display oh this is frankly the main macbook pro now we don't need to say Retina every time anymore now if you look at it you'll say this looks a lot like the 2012 version of the retina MacBook Pro and you would be right the changes here are on the inside but they are pretty significant this is still you know thin and light for a macbook pro it's not quite ultra book level it's still a little thick and heavy to carry around everyday in your backpack I'm not sure I'd want to do that but it's certainly a lot thinner than the traditional macbook pro they have the optical drive that's one of the things you lose here but it fits very nice into desktop and you can you know stick into the bag and take it with you if you really need to what I'm most excited about is this MacBook Pro finally has one of those big updates we've been waiting for the MacBook Air had of the imac got it now we have got Intel's fourth generation Core iSeries chips otherwise known by the codename Haswell and what that gives you is a modest performance boost you get better onboard graphics that's all great but what you really get is much better battery life and in previous cell laptops both PCs and Macs that we've tested with these new Intel chips you really do get a very nice battery life boost Apple says that the 15-inch version of the macbook pro is gonna run for eight hours they say that the smaller 13 inch version that I have right here is going to run for nine hours this is one of those rare cases when an hour of battery testing actually sometimes run a little bit longer what you get is also some of the other new upgrades that both Macs and PCs have gotten this year at least the high-end ones you got a toe 2.11 AC wireless in this case with the other Mac's you've got PCIe type of SSD storage which is supposed to run a little bit faster and of course you have Thunderbolt 2 and you still get HDMI on this and an USB 3.0 I think the most surprising thing to me about these new MacBook Pros of that app will actually cut the price of them a little bit they did this with the 13-inch MacBook Air as well so the 15-inch MacBook Pro now starts at $19.99 that's still very expensive but it's a little bit less than it was last year I couldn't let you in on a little secret though where we got a more high and configuration here this thing has got discrete NVIDIA GeForce 750 M graphics and it's got 16 gigs are a matte a 512 gigabyte SSD and that's gonna cost you like $25.99 still a hefty investment but a very very powerful laptop I'm Dan Agron and that is the 2013 Apple 15 macbook pro