The Mac has an aluminum casing, an excellent backlit keyboard with no flex and excellent tactile feel, and a large glass trackpad that's the poster child for how a trackpad should work and feel. We'll keep this section short since the new model shares the same casing and design with the last gen model. You can download Apple's MS Office compatible iWork suite for free from the App Store. All configurations have dual band WiFi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0 and ship with OS X Mavericks with iLife (iPhoto, iMovie and Garage Band).

You can order it with up to 16 gigs of RAM and a 1 terabyte SSD drive. The second gen 13' Retina Mac starts at $1,299 for the 2.4GHz dual core with 4 gigs of RAM and a 128 PCIe SSD drive. That's not as good as the class-leading MacBook Air, but it's leagues better than other laptops running mobile CPUs of this class. We can thank Haswell and battery life improvements in Mac OS X Mavericks for the claimed (and actual) 9 hour battery life. Ultrabook, but for those who need serious computing power, that's a small price to pay.Īpple has managed to make the second generation 13' Retina MacBook Pro cheaper and lighter while increasing battery life. You'll pay a half pound weight penalty for the performance increase compared to the average 3 lb. As with prior MacBook Pro models, these are full mobile 28W CPUs rather than the slower 15W CPUs used in Ultrabooks including the MacBook Air.

That means the subject of our review, the late 2013 MacBook Pro 13', is a Retina machine and it has Intel's fourth generation Intel Haswell CPUs inside.

The company specializes in high end products, but we didn't expect the more common resolutions to disappear from their lineup so quickly. In Chief (twitter: Note March 2015: Read and watch our review of the 2015 13' MacBook Pro Retina.Īpple's latest MacBook Pro laptops surprised us: the non-Retina display has gone away and only a base 13' model (last year's model) lives on. What's Not: No dedicated graphics option. What's Hot: Retina display, faster than an Ultrabook yet still thin and light. Home > Laptop Reviews > Late 2013 13' MacBook Pro (ME864LL)ġ3' MacBook Pro (late 2013, Retina, Haswell) Editor's rating (1-5):

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