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waiting for something new this year from Apple well I've got a little update right here for ya I'm Dan Ackman and this is the Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display the 15-inch version mid-2014 now what Apple is done with the retina MacBook Pro does the same thing they did earlier in 2014 with the MacBook Air and also with the iMac desktops they kept the outside look pretty much exactly the same but they've updated some of the components inside most notably the CPUs and in some cases they've added some price cuts to them those MacBook Airs went down by a hundred bucks there's a new less expensive 21.5 inch iMac and for the retina MacBook Pro line the most expensive 15-inch now cost a hundred dollars less the other one cost the same this is the entry-level model if you can use the term entry-level to describe something that costs $2,000 at $19.99 and once you get new industries version versus last year's across the retina Pro line is a slightly slightly slightly faster CPU just a very modest spec bump a bunch of them double the RAM from either for cakes to eight gigs or in this case to 16 gigs other than that you've got the same pretty big SSDs a 256 gig SSD and this one a 512 and the more expensive version that's $24.99 for that more expensive version but if you stick with this one you also lose out on the discreet Nvidia graphics this guy just uses intel's integrated iris pro graphics of course you still get the main highlight of that MacBook Pro line which is that Retina display that super high resolution display over the last year or two and this is the third year in a row that Apple is making these retina systems we've seen more and more I call them better than HD displays from other PC makers Toshiba even has a 4k display in a 15-inch laptop and of course Lenovo and Toshiba and other guys have you know better than HD displays it's almost a common thing now in a premium laptop and we talked about these prices you definitely consider this a premium laptop this model versus the one from last year performance is a hair better because of the faster CPU battery life is about the same still nine hours still very good for a high-powered premium laptop the main difference is you're getting that slight CPU bump you got more RAM but other than that if you have an older 15 inch retina MacBook Pro there's really no need to update but if you've been waiting they've given just a tiny bit of a boost even though this model didn't get that small price cut that some of the other ones did I'd love to see this for a hundred or two hundred dollars less I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Apple MacBook Pro 15 inch Retina display