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CNET News - Apple debuts 13-inch MacBook Pro -- lightest ever

2012-10-23
and I'm really excited to show you for the first time the brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro it is incredibly thin just point 75 inches thin let's put that side by side with the previous generation you can see there's a huge difference its twenty percent thinner a full one-fifth thinner but even more impressive it weighs just over three and a half pounds that's almost a full pound lighter than the previous generation it also makes it our lightest macbook pro ever and here it is on the side the Cal thin that is beautiful thin base thin display and all the IOR pro customers need on the left-hand side is magsafe 2 to Thunderbolt ports a USB 3 port headphone and dual microphones on the right-hand side as with the 15-inch we removed the optical drive and now have room for an SD card reader HDMI video out and a second USB 3 port here it is on the other side equally beautiful for both sides best of all it has a retina display that is display where the pixels are so small that a normal working distance your I can't discern them and everything on it looks absolutely gorgeous it measures 13.3 inches on the diagonal for pixels it's an amazing 2560 by 1600 that is four times the number of pixels of the previous generation and if you've done the math I'm sure some of you have that's four million ninety six thousand pixels that makes it the world's second highest resolution notebook computer yes our 15-inch is the first but think about that this 13 inch notebook has more pixels than any competitive 15 or even 17 inch notebook it is amazing looked at another way many of us have HD TVs now 1920 x 1080 and here is the new 13-inch macbook pro alongside it showing the same image but let's overlap those images you can see the 13-inch MacBook Pros Retina Display displays almost twice as many pixels almost two million more pixels than an HDTV it is a stunning display and many other ways as well it has rich color deep blacks twenty-nine percent higher contrast ratio and customers really appreciate this a seventy-five percent reduction and reflection or glare it's an IPS panel so it is a very wide viewing angle and up to full brightness it's 300 nets a very bright display so this is an amazing display and your applications look fantastic on you so reading email the text is so beautiful you can't see the pixels surfing the web can be like a fine print magazine using I work applications like keynote your slides look absolutely gorgeous I life applications are great too when you use iMovie the small thumbnails of video or even stunning and sharp and specially pearl applications like our aperture photo application for pros you now have access to 4 million pixels for native photo resolution there's never been a small notebook that gave pro photographers this kind of technology and capability and if you're looking for more apps that all support our new retina displays just go to our mac app store you're going to find plenty more there now there's productivity apps like evernote an omni graffle there's creative applications like pixelmator and sketchbook pro and even games like civilization 5 and real racing 2 it's a lot of great software now to support the retina display so that alone is an amazing new feature on the new macbook pro but there's a lot more there's an FaceTime HD camera with 720p do recording dual microphones stereo speakers that sound even better than the previous generation despite it being a thinner notebook there's a beautiful backlit keyboard and a glass multi-touch trackpad I think the most exciting part about this computer is actually but you can't see it's on the inside so let's take the bottom off and get a deep look inside it everything about the new mac Pro has been re-engineered from scratch first the large dark areas around the track pad those are the batteries we use a symmetric lithium-ion battery technology this allows us to get the maximum battery life on such a small design let me highlight some of the features it's pretty incredible you have intel dual core i5 or i7 Ivy Bridge processors intel HD graphics 4000 much faster graphics Wi-Fi Bluetooth standard 8 gigabytes of memory up to 768 gigabytes of flash it's all flash base for storage and of course now up to 7 hours of battery life in such a thin light product it is a fantastic computer and it ships with OS 10 mountain lion and mountain lion has many great features that take advantage of this technology and are perfect for our notebook users for example built-in voice dictation so anyway you can type you can also speak and with dual microphones that works even better of course over Wi-Fi we have airplay so if you have the Apple TV hooked up to your TV set you can put your photos your movies your presentations up there for everyone to see documents in the cloud so you can work on your I work documents and your MacBook Pro and access them wherever you are in your iPad or even your iPhone I'm probably the coolest feature power nap with power nap while your notebook is asleep it can automatically update your contacts your calendar your email your photo stream download software updates even back up to a time capsule so this is a great new MacBook Pro and it starts the 2.5 gigahertz dual-core i5 8 gigs of memory in 128 gigabytes of flash for just 1699
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