Gadgetory

today we are unboxing the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display you may remember that we unboxed the 15-inch model in the first episode of always on back then we had to borrow the one that the labs guys from New York cop but now we have enough money to buy our own he doesn't my name on it packing list alright and I'm coming up in the world because i still have my like box cutter with my name on it let's check it out pretty heavy box I'm not gonna live feels pretty beefy they do packaging well here's our little box power brick little extra cable their instructions no CDs in the box of course why would there be oh this is heavy I mean it's not that heavy but it feels heavy compared to an air because it's a 13-inch laptop and it was all kind of gotten used to that really air size thing so much beefier your laptop definitely has that pro feel oh okay it's open it up and see if it can come on so we can check out the retina display while I get it all set up let's do the specs the macbook pro with retina display starts at sixteen hundred and ninety nine dollars and it goes up rapidly from there it has that 2560 by 1600 display which looks pretty darn good the base model has a 2.5 gigahertz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor with eight gigs of on-board ram the base model has a 128 gig solid-state flash drive you're probably not going to want that considering that you're likely a photographer if you're the macbook pro retinas target market you'll want to upgrade to 256 gigs for an additional three hundred dollars there's also a 512 gig option or 768 gigs that one will cost you an additional thirteen hundred dollars the macbook pro weighs 3.5 seven pounds it has a 720p FaceTime HD camera that looks very nice to Thunderbolt ports and USB 3 HDMI out and an SDXC card slot for those photographers who might want to use it it has a full-size backlit keyboard and it ships with mountain lion I was curious about the weight of this thing so I brought down the 13-inch macbook air to compare and I have to say that they actually feel pretty similar in weight and the macbook pro is a little more compact than the air look at that it's like a little bit wider because of all that skinny bezel I guess obviously the macbook pro with retina display is a super nice laptop I'm curious about who the target market is because frankly the pro photographers I know we're hoping for a 17 inch laptop and not a 13-inch laptop and also that price I mean it's one thing to pay a premium for Apple products but 1699 is the base 1999 for let's be honest the model that you're going to want at minimum the macbook air 13-inch and the macbook pro 13-inch without Retina Display start at 11 99 that's a crazy premium for a display that frankly is beautiful but just not that necessary I'm not saying I'm not going to totally enjoy using this guy for a couple of weeks and I'm excited to take it home but i wouldn't pay for it