A Short Note on MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro happens to be one of the members of Apple’s line of professional notebooks. This gadget features higher powered Intel Core processors as compared to the ones on the lighter and thinner MacBook Air notebooks; likewise you can also see SDXC slots as well. Retina display which is a feature found only in Apple’s 2012 iPad model has been featured in a 15-inch MacBook Pro earlier this year. The price tag of 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro was $2199 which was not even reasonable for a lot of professionals.
MacBook Pro happens to be one of the members of Apple’s line of professional notebooks. This gadget features higher powered Intel Core processors as compared to the ones on the lighter and thinner MacBook Air notebooks; likewise you can also see SDXC slots as well. Retina display which is a feature found only in Apple’s 2012 iPad model has been featured in a 15-inch MacBook Pro earlier this year. The price tag of 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro was $2199 which was not even reasonable for a lot of professionals.
Apple has unveiled its 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display at the event where new iPad, iPad Mini and iPhone were introduced. The starting price of the gadget was $1699 which is in fact a lot low-priced than slightly larger 15” model. Similarly it is just $200 higher than the 13-inch MacBook Pro which doesn’t feature Retina display. There are varieties of accessories designed for macbook pro that are readily available in the market.
Retina display – What Is It?
Retina display is a trade name introduced by Apple for a screen so sharp that discerning individual pixels with unaided eye is impossible, at the distance that you use it on a regular basis. It can be assumed as the new “HD” partially because contrasting it with standard HDTV resolutions is like contrasting an HDTV to standard definition.
Apple has unveiled its 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display at the event where new iPad, iPad Mini and iPhone were introduced. The starting price of the gadget was $1699 which is in fact a lot low-priced than slightly larger 15” model. Similarly it is just $200 higher than the 13-inch MacBook Pro which doesn’t feature Retina display. There are varieties of accessories designed for macbook pro that are readily available in the market.
Retina display – What Is It?
Retina display is a trade name introduced by Apple for a screen so sharp that discerning individual pixels with unaided eye is impossible, at the distance that you use it on a regular basis. It can be assumed as the new “HD” partially because contrasting it with standard HDTV resolutions is like contrasting an HDTV to standard definition.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro that has retina display has the screen resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels and a pixel density of 227 ppi (pixel per inch). Comparatively this is a lower resolution than that of 15” MacBook Pro but yet slightly sharper owing to the smaller screen. This can be more or less compared to 216 ppi display of Google Nexus 7 in terms of sharpness but it can’t be approached to 264 ppi screen of new iPad.
You can get a 13” MacBook Pro that doesn’t feature Retina display at the minimum price tag of $1199. However, add-ons such as 8 GB RAM and 128GB solid state drive will be featured in the cheapest Retina MacBook Pro configuration. In generally they would cost additional hundreds of dollars if the actual price difference is put at just $200.
You can get a 13” MacBook Pro that doesn’t feature Retina display at the minimum price tag of $1199. However, add-ons such as 8 GB RAM and 128GB solid state drive will be featured in the cheapest Retina MacBook Pro configuration. In generally they would cost additional hundreds of dollars if the actual price difference is put at just $200.