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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 kind of a new entry in the Apple laptop line they've got the air they've got the pro 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 by 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 if you have an app like some of Apple's native apps or like Photoshop from Adobe or some other apps that Mac people use a lot that's specially set up to work with the higher resolution display then things are gonna look really great on there also it'll be a while before every app is kind of modified or updated in order to work with the new screen now of course on a Windows laptop you pretty much top out at 1920 by 1080 the reason why this display works is because it's got a different dpi on the screen so things actually look the correct size much like they do on your iPad 3rd generation now besides 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 i'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 a 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 I'd say this is a carry around two to three times a week sort of laptop but if you've ever had a lug around a big 15-inch regular MacBook Pro you know that that's a real armbreaker if you have to do that more than once or twice a week now a lot of things on here are gonna seem familiar they got the same Apple keyboard that everybody likes backlit of course and a big glass touchpad a lot of Windows systems are coming close with the keyboards and they're starting to come close with the big click pan touch pants but they don't quite have it down yet a lot of it is the response miss of the multi-touch gestures that just nobody else can really seem to now now under the hood there's some changes to the MacBook Pro and Airlines that are also reflected here these all have the new generation of Intel ivory Bridge CPUs that's the third generation Core I series and that includes eight HD 4000 graphics from Intel that's the integrated graphics actually work pretty good you know they're not fantastic fortunately you also have an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650 GPU in here which is great to see a discrete graphics card in something this then and of course it's solid-state memory only as you'd expect that's pretty much everything except for the 13 and 15s regular pros all the other Apple laptops have moved to this solid-state format which I think you know it's just like faster yeah if you were moving parts it does make it do a little more maybe picking and choosing about what you're gonna save or store more stuff in the cloud but that's kind of the point I think the thing I'm most excited about besides the dual USB 3.0 ports and the dual thunderbolt 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 ate this and plug this into a big TV or a projector or a monitor I know Apple is stayed away from this for years they finally obviously heard my my plaintive cries and added HDMI for everybody and now in order to get all this you're gonna have to maybe save up a few pennies and they'd be treating your old MacBook because it starts that starts that $21.99 that's pretty darn expensive for just a 15-inch laptop with only a 256 gig solid-state drives you can trade up to a bigger one of course that's gonna cost even more I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the brand new Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display you