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I'm down Akron and we are here taking a look at the 15-inch MacBook Pro 2012 edition no it is not the super fancy Retina Display MacBook Pro this is just a plain old one they still make that and they still updated it with some new components the big changes inside are an Intel Core I Siri CPU from the latest Ivy Bridge generation in this case it's a quad core Core i7 but a more major change has been taking the graphics going from AMD which these things have had for a few generations now to invidious and they get Nvidia graphics card with this and then the third major swap is the USB ports are gone now replaced with the USB 3.0 which will be great if you have some USB 3.0 gear like an external hard drive you want to hook up to it and of course you still have that Thunderbolt / DisplayPort connection on the side that you can use either go out to a monitor or to hook up a Thunderbolt peripheral there probably more USB 3.0 peripherals out there that Thunderbolt ones so you might find those ports more useful on the outside this looks and feels exactly like the last couple of generations of MacBook Pro it's still a solidly build pretty attractive fairly thin for a 15-inch kind of laptop but the competition is really starting to catch up now especially there now that we're seeing 14 and 15 inch ultrabooks the Retina Display MacBook Pro takes a big step forward this is regular ngon retina version even though it's still very expensive starts at $17.99 and it's starting to feel a little bit dated now because we've basically had the same design for a long time in fact if you take a look at it it's pretty thin for a 15-inch laptop and I'm going to show you the retina version right here same thing 15 inch laptop higher resolution display a lot thinner and actually a good deal lighter as well you've still got all the things that I like about Mac books the excellent keyboard back with keeping of course the gigantic glass multi-touch trackpad that has all those cool gestures that other laptops try to mimic but they don't really do as good a job mimei knock against the pro these days is that the screen is a 1440 by 900 screen you can actually get a 1600 by 50 upgrade but you have to pay more for that for $1,700 I'd like a higher resolution on the default screen other than that this is still one of the most universally useful midsize laptops you can buy but I have to admit if you're gonna shell out $17.99 for this you may want to save up a little bit more and get that cooler retina version as long as you can live without the optical drive and the Ethernet jack otherwise you may end up feeling just a little bit of system at me I didn't act remember that is the 15-inch MacBook Pro