Earlier this morning Apple announced a combination of price cuts and spec updates to its MacBook Pro with Retina Display lineup. The price cuts impact the 13-inch rMBP, while the spec bumps extend across almost all models. The good news is the price of the base and upgraded 13-inch rMBPs have dropped to $1499 and $1699, respectively. The 15-inch model remains untouched. The upgraded 13-inch rMBP configuration has a slightly faster Core i5 CPU (2.6GHz base clock instead of 2.5GHz, I believe this is a Core i5-3230M). The faster CPUs are nice to see, especially since that's really the only way to improve UI performance at this point until Apple brings some more software tweaks to OS X. On the 15-inch side, both configurations get a...
MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis
I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow morning, but aside from dinner I've been spending as much time with the next-gen MacBook Pro as possible. Apple, as always, has done...
188 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/12/2012
SSD and USB 3.0 Performance of the Retina Display MacBook Pro
Two major upgrades offered to all of Apple's new MacBook lineup are updated SSDs and native USB 3.0 support. The same updated SSD is present across all of Apple's...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
How the Retina Display MacBook Pro Handles Scaling
Earlier this morning Apple introduced its next-generation MacBook Pro equipped with a Retina Display. The 15.4-inch panel features a native resolution of 2880 x 1800, or exactly four times...
74 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
First Shots of the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, Updated: Even More Pics
Apple has a couple of demo units of the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display outside of the keynote hall at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Check out...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
Mountain Lion Shipping in July, $19.99 for upgrades from Snow Leopard and Lion
Apple will be shipping Mountain Lion next month. The upgrade will cost Snow Leopard and Lion owners only $19.99. The fee upgrades all of your personal Macs. Macs shipping...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
Mountain Lion Power Nap: Connected Standby
Mountain Lion now features connected standby via a feature Apple calls Power Nap. Even while sleeping your Mac will now fetch new emails, tweets, etc.. as well as download...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012Mountain Lion Safari Supports iCloud Tabs, Safari Tabs From all iOS and OS X Devices
This is a very cool feature from the new version of Safari shipping with Mountain Lion. Clicking the new iCloud tabs button will give you a live listing of...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
MacBook Pro with Retina Display Starts at $2199, Shipping Today
Here's the default configuration for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display and it starts shipping today. Full specs and details here.
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
The next-generation MacBook Pro: Ports
Two Thunderbolt ports, HDMI out, MagSafe 2 (thinner), SD card reader, headphone out, and two USB 3.0 ports.
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
Inside the next generation MacBook Pro
Intel Core i7 (Ivy Bridge) Up to 768GB SSD Up to 16GB of RAM Up to 7 hours of battery life, 30 days of standby 802.11n (3x3:3) and BT 4.0 Asymmetric fan blades to...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
This is the next generation MacBook Pro
Alongside updated Ivy Bridge MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, Apple is introducing a third member of its notebook lineup. This is the next generation MacBook Pro with Retina...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
Apple's Updated MacBook Pro: Ivy Bridge and Kepler
As expected, Apple updated the MacBook Pro lineup to feature Intel's Ivy Bridge silicon as well as NVIDIA's GeForce GT 650M in the 15-inch model. Prices remain the same...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
Apple Updates MacBook Air: Ivy Bridge, Up to 8GB of RAM, USB 3.0, 512GB SSD
Apple just announced its MacBook Air updates. As expected you get Ivy Bridge, as well as up to 8GB of on-board DDR3-1600 memory and up to a 512GB SSD...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
WWDC 2012: App Store Facts
Tim Cook just took the stage at WWDC and shared a few updates on the health and growth of the app store: - 400M app store accounts with stored credit...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/11/2012
ASUS' Zenbook SSD and Apple's MacBook Air SSD Are Not Compatible
In working on yesterday's Zenbook Prime review I ran into a problem with the 256GB Sandisk U100 drive that came with my review sample. Unfortunately, since the drive doesn't...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/23/2012
OWC Releases Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD
OWC has released their first PCIe SSD, the Mercury Accelsior. OWC has used SandForce controllers throughout its history in the SSD world and the Accelsior is no exception. It...
33 by Kristian Vättö on 4/18/2012
Apple: 1080p Apple TV uses a Single-Core A5 SoC
Details are scarce, but the new 1080p Apple TV does use a single-core Apple A5 SoC. I'm assuming the video decode engine is identical to what we have in...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/7/2012
LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series Review
We've been covering Thunderbolt storage ever since the first Promise Pegasus hit our labs last summer. Since then we've noticed a common theme: Thunderbolt storage is very expensive. Prices...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/25/2012
Thoughts on the Mac OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview
Mountain Lion's first developer preview has been around for a couple of days now, and most of the banner features - largely composed of new imports from iOS -...
96 by Andrew Cunningham & Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2012
Apple Releases OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" Preview
Using several media outlets, Apple has just announced major details about Mac OS X 10.8, the next version of the company's desktop operatng system. The new release, codenamed "Mountain...
38 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/16/2012