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what's crackin brand song here and welcome to the apple byte it's all the good and bad inside the world of Apple and there's planning to talk about in the aftermath of WWDC now you probably know the big news so we'll go over it briefly and then dig in because with all things The Devil's in the details and we start things off with the rock star of the event and that was the all new macbook pro with a Retina display think of it as a hybrid like a quad core macbook air with its great screen now I got to play with it and it's already earned seen its editors choice of words so check this out from our laptop guru dan ackerman i'm dan ackerman and we are here taking a very first look at apple's brand new macbook pro with retina display this is a variation on the pro available only for now in the 15 inch size and of course it's that retina display that makes it special it's got a 28 80 x 1800 resolution that is unheard of in laptops and kind of like on the latest iPhone and on the latest iPad it makes text and images look very crisp on the screen now read signs the big screen the other big deal about this new system is that it is much thinner and lighter than your typical macbook pro it's got a lot of the DNA of a macbook air in it and I really thought it was almost 50 50 or 60 40 but now that they've got to see it up close and handle it it definitely leans much more towards the pro side it's got these side speakers right here like you have on a macbook pro it's squared off and slab like instead of tapered like a macbook air it's actually just about to stick overall as the air is on the thickest part at the back of the air maybe just add hair thicker it is however a little bit heavier than you would expect looking at it and looking at how thin it is it's about four and a half pounds now a lot of things on here are going to seem familiar they got the same Apple keyboard that everybody likes backlit of course and the big glass touchpad I think the thing I'm most excited about besides the dual USB 3.1 der bolt ports is something I never thought I'd see on an apple laptop that's HDMI I've been asking for this for years it's finally here it makes it so much easier to just take this and plug this into a big TV or projector or a monitor and now in order to get all this you're going to have to maybe save up a few pennies and they'd be trade in your old macbook because it starts that starts that 2199 that's pretty darn expensive for just a 15 inch laptop with only a 256 gig solid-state drives you can trade up through a bigger one of course that's going to cost even more i'm dan ackerman and that is the brand new apple macbook pro with retina display alright thanks Dan now you guys the retina display is nice but it's more subtle than you think and it's not a cheap machine starting at 2199 but more than anything the 15-inch is a lot heavier than it looks and trust me I work out we also saw a revamp across the line with new macbook pro 13-inch and 15-inch and MacBook Airs featuring Ivy Bridge processors Thunderbolt usb3 a slimmer MagSafe connector and 720p FaceTime cameras which I'm excited about for personal use now mountain lion won't come pre-loaded on the machines but apple says it's arriving in July for 1999 and if you buy a machine now you'll get a free upgrade plus we didn't see any other mac hardware and we told you not to expect it but a lot of you were frustrated about no imax now don't get too worked up about it we still expect to refresh this year and they've released new iMacs a few weeks after a keynote in the past on the other hand the mac pro probably received the most pathetic update in apple history they didn't mention it in the keynote but they released it on Apple's online store with a new tag the only thing knew about it was a speed bump no new Intel processors no Thunderbolt usb3 say 23 note after almost two years it got speed bump now a couple days later Apple then remove that tag after the internet ripped it apart and I get it desktops are not where you're making a lot of your money but come on son that's a bad apple now there's light at the end of this very long long tunnel after Apple reps told us directly about the mac pro's and Tim Cook publicly responded in an email with our pro customers are really important to us don't worry as we're working on something really great for later next year Apple has never revealed product info like this and they almost had to but to hold me over until then I'm kinda wishing Apple really did make that refriger toaster froster after all iOS 6 also took center stage and the big a showed up new features and improvements that will be available in the fall around the time we see the next-gen iphone which may or may not look like this now the biggest oohs and ahhs came when Apple showed off their flyover feature and the Maps app now our own seen it expert audio engineer confirm there wasn't a single female voice recognized during that segment now Apple's new maps will also include voice turn-by-turn directions a feature Android has had since day one series getting the ability to check sports scores movies launching apps are posting to social media but Apple and talk about how they would actually improve series recognition or the long waits for information to be interpreted now Facebook is finally going to be integrated into iOS and facetime calls will now be able to be made over a cellular connection in iOS 6 there's a whole bunch of other features but just because apple says they're coming in Iowa 6 doesn't necessarily mean you're going to get to use them all check out this breakdown we have for you and even though iOS 6 works on the iphone 4 and the 3gs you'll need a 4s or higher to get turn-by-turn directions and fly over you also won't get facetime over cellular connections with a four or even an ipad 2 and you still won't get Siri on that same iPad to Siri will only work on a floor s or higher and on a third-generation iPad and if you're on a 3gs don't look too carefully because you will cry from that chart now people are pissed off about this and you should be I'm annoyed by it and it's more than worthy of a nasty bad apple but this is really par for the course for Apple they did it with multimedia text messaging they did it with Siri and we've known this for years this is how apple rolls I'm not saying it's right but the reality is that there's plenty of other great phones out there like the HTC One X or Samsung's Galaxy s3 that's coming to the US soon you guys you don't have to be one hundred percent Apple okay let's be honest a lot of you watching are now there were a couple products Apple announced that you didn't hear about there's a new airport express that's now shaped like an Apple TV with an ethernet when and land port for 99 bucks an app will release their own smart case for the ipad 2 and ipad 3 that covers the back side and still has its foldable cover that protects the front would you believe it a new apple product that works on older models all right guys now I know the Apple biters didn't completely get what they wanted to see at WWDC like an iPhone 5 even if we told you it wasn't coming so to make you feel better we're giving you guys something it's mo fees $99 juice pack plus that's a rechargeable external battery case for the iPhone 4 and 4s and more than doubles the life of your phone all you have to do is tweet me at Brian underscore Tom make me laugh or cry if you really mean or just say hi send me your first and last name so I can stock you on facebook and we'll announce our winners next week plus mophie is hooking up the apple byte nation with a twenty percent off coupon code for anything from their online store that's good through July first alright that's going to do it for this week's show i'm brian Tong email us at the apple by the cnet com thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another bite of the Apple you