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hey guys johnathan here would TechnoBuffalo with my first impressions of the brand-new 13-inch retina macbook pro I'm gonna give you guys a rundown fill you in on the specs but I solium mainly want to talk about and focus on the retina display because that is the whole reason we are here and that is the biggest feature of the news 13 inch retina MacBook Pro now real quickly this is the baseline 2.5 gigahertz core i5 model a gigs a ram at 128 gigabytes of flash storage this configuration starts out at 1699 us so you're gonna get no arguments out of me this is definitely a premium product and it is damn pricey now is it worth that premium price tag that is still up in the air it'll get a little more into that at the end of the video but to put things in contrast if you take the 13-inch non-red the MacBook Pro you bump it up to these same a gigs of RAM and 128 gigabytes of flash storage you're actually only paying about 200 extra dollars for a beautiful beautiful display now real quickly just benchmarking the SSD I got read and write speeds over 400 megabytes per second and to put that in perspective a typical 5400 rpm hard drive is gonna read and write around 60 megabytes per second so there is a huge difference and that translates to much faster app loading times insanely quick boot ups and shutdowns that overall just a much better user experience the new 13-inch retina MacBook Pro is also thinner it's nearly eight pounds lighter than its non-retina sibling and real quickly just giving you guys a tour of the ins and the outs with the MagSafe 2 connector we have dual Thunderbolt ports one of the two USB 3.0 ports the headphone jack and dual microphones rounded up the left-hand side on the flip side you can see gone is the optical drive which translates to the thinner form factor and the lighter build we then have the SD card slot HDMI out and the second USB 3.0 port now getting into the heart of the matter the Retina display it is rockin a 2560 by 1600 resolution which is four times the pixels as the current 13 inch non retina MacBook Pro now a lot of people will react and say why the heck would I want to resolution that big on a screen that small I'm not gonna be able to see anything text is gonna be small icons are gonna be small but it actually works a little different than you might think so by default that 2560 by 1600 looks like 1280 by 800 they render it at that ultra high resolution and then scale it down to fit in that screen state form factors there's actually four times the pixels in there and that's gonna result in insanely crisp pecs and a really really vivid picture now where it gets really cool is you can actually scale it where you can see much more screen real estate than you normally could on a 30-inch non-retina macbook pro you can bump it up to look like 1440 by 900 and that actually renders everything at twenty eight eighty by 1800 which is absolutely insane and it actually even goes one step further you can make it look like 1680 by 1050 and that actually renders everything at thirty 360 by 2100 which is absolutely ridiculous it's pretty much impossible to see through a 1080p video but I have full resolution screenshots down in the description below you guys should check those out click them and see exactly how much screen real estate is actually smashed into this beautiful 13 inch display so in terms of real world use this is what web browsing looks like on the standard retina setting this is what it looks like if you bump it up to 1440 by 900 so you can see there's a little extra screen real estate and if you go even higher this is how it looks if you render it at 1680 by 1050 you get even more screen real estate now as far as performance goes I was a little worried about not having dedicated graphics but as a little mini stress test here is Final Cut Pro 10 running the rectangle with a video that is full resolution 1080p and you still have extra screen real estate around it it's actually crazy so I'm gonna keep that video playing in the background just kind of move it around do a little scrolling on the web browsing and you can see it doesn't really lag at all so the a gigs around kind of helps with multitasking I really really would like to see dedicated graphics but for what it is it actually runs pretty smooth now as far as is this worth the price it's hard to say because I really feel the 15 inch retina MacBook Pro is a much better deal if you actually bump this 13-inch model up to an i7 processor these same 256 gigabytes of flash storage it's actually the same price but with the 15 inch you get quad core CPU and dedicated graphics and obviously a bigger screen and that leads me to believe that this is a premium product it's not for everybody but it is gonna pave the way for future products next year I can see retina possibly as a standard but lower price points for sure and is also gonna pave the way for other laptops non Mac and Apple aside so thank you guys for watching 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