#Macbook pro covers 13 inch retina upgrade#

And the little indent in front of the trackpad has been slightly smoothed out and made less concave. ItвЂ™s also extremely clean, with no branding on it apart from the Apple logo on the lid and the regulatory stuff on the bottom - even the 'MacBook Pro' insignia under the screen has been done away with. You'll notice an improvement in AppleвЂ™s already industry-leading fit and finish, though: the 13 uses the same new riff on unibody MacBook design as the 15-inch Retina, and itвЂ™s an extremely stiff, solid machine. MacBook Pro with Retina display (15-inch) MacBook Pro with Retina display (13-inch) Basically, youвЂ™re used to Apple making laptops of about this size, and the Retina 13 is a nice midpoint between the old Pro and the Air. And the Air is actually a little bigger in terms of height and width. Unlike the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, the size and weight reduction of the 13-inch Pro isnвЂ™t nearly as shocking in person - the older 13-inch Pro already felt quite small, and the ubiquitous 13-inch Air is just slightly thinner at its thickest point.

#Macbook pro covers 13 inch retina upgrade#

And as AppleвЂ™s most popular Mac, the 13-inch Pro tells us a lot about what Apple thinks mainstream computers should look like - which usually tells us a lot about what other PC manufacturers will think mainstream computers should look like.Д«ut now that weвЂ™ve unwrapped this thing, does it live up to all these expectations? Can its relatively midrange internals handle the burden of that beautiful display? Is the $1,699 13-inch Pro worth the upgrade over the $1,199 13-inch Air, until now the laptop weвЂ™ve most often recommended? Most importantly, is this your next laptop? Read on to find out. Apple has a playbook, and the new 13-inch Pro follows it closely. None of this is surprising, but thatвЂ™s not a bad thing: the 13-inch Pro is a predictable product in the same way that opening a present and receiving exactly the thing youвЂ™d wished for is a predictable experience.

And it has that Retina display - a technology that remains unmatched in the PC market.

The design language follows right along with the recently-introduced 15-inch Retina Macbook Pro, which itself was a subtle iteration on the MacBook Pro before it. ItвЂ™s a mainstream laptop that uses all the space-saving tricks and techniques Apple learned building the MacBook Air to be as thin and light as possible, but still offers up a powerful Intel processor and a seven-hour battery life. But more broadly, the new 13-inch Pro is much more than that: itвЂ™s a logical endpoint for a number of Apple and tech industry trend lines and the start of a new wave altogether. In isolation, the 13-inch Pro is just a smaller version of its well-regarded bigger brother, and so itвЂ™s easy to set expectations. A review of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display so closely following a review of the 15-inch model has many layers.