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CNET News - Apple shows latest 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros

2013-10-22
today we're happy to now turn our attention to MacBook Pro as you know the macbook pro is the first personal computer with a Retina Display a display with the pixel so small that a normal working distance your I can't discern them and the images are gorgeous and now we've brought out both the 13 inch and a 15 inch Retina Display MacBook Pro and both are having major updates today first let's start with a 13-inch MacBook Pro it is an incredible machine and now it is even lighter under three and a half pounds just 3.4 six pounds and the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is thinner as well just point 71 inches then beautiful and thin and light and it's incredibly fast to new 13-inch MacBook Pro is powered by an Intel Haswell chip this is a fourth-generation dual-core chip and that chip includes intel iris graphics intimated graphics that are even faster in fact they're up to ninety percent faster than the previous generation so faster performance faster graphics and it gets better battery life to now up to 9 hours of battery life for all the things you love to do reading your mail surfing the web doing productivity and even watching movies that you've downloaded from itunes so if you're a fan of the Black Knight as I am you can watch the entire trilogy on one charge yes sure if you're a closet Batman Finn you don't have to hide it it's faster to in terms of the flash storage pcie-based flash that's sixty percent faster than the previous generation Wi-Fi is faster to it as 802 11 AC that delivers up to three times the performance over 802 11 n at similar distances an expansion is faster too with the new Thunderbolt 2 it's up to twice as fast it's the previous generation thunderbolt and all this performance and battery life comes in a brand new macbook pro that's running Mavericks Craig just told you all about the incredible features and performance of Mavericks and the work of hardware and software together to deliver an incredible notebook experience the previous generation 13-inch MacBook Pro started at 1499 we're really happy to tell you today that this new 13-inch MacBook Pro starts at just 12 99 that's for a configuration with a 13-inch retina display 2.4 gigahertz dual-core i5 4 gigs of memory iris graphics 128 gigabyte of storage and best of all it starts shipping today next yep next let's talk about the 15-inch MacBook Pro this all new generation macbook pro is powered by an Intel crystal well chip this is a fourth generation quad core processor it includes iris pro graphics that this is integrated graphics that for many tasks that were the same performance as discrete graphics but it does it at a quarter less power and for those who do want discrete graphics there are models with the new geforce gt750m and this is a graphics part with two gigs of video memory twice as much as before so again faster processing faster graphics and lauder bit longer battery life as well up to 8 hours of battery life the new 15-inch MacBook Pro also includes the faster pcie-based flash it also includes the faster 802 11 AC Wi-Fi it also includes new Thunderbolt 2 storage so it's just better across the entire system of course it comes with OS 10 Mavericks now the previous generation 15-inch MacBook Pro started at 2199 thinking guess what's coming the new macbook pro now starts at just 19 99 that's for configuration with a 15-inch retina display 2 gigahertz quad-core i7 eight gigs of memory iris pro graphics and a quarter terabyte of flash storage and best of all it's also shipping today as you know we work really hard to make all of our products environmentally friendly and these are both as well and you just are six epeat gold arsenic-free display mercury-free display bfr free PVC free and highly recyclable with all that beautiful aluminum and glass so this is our notebook lineup knock bakare macbook pro with the retina display to display sizes on each 11 inch and 13 on air 13 and 15 on macbook pro starting at just 999 so by far the best lineup we've ever had an incredible upgrades across the whole line and that's our news for macbook today
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