Overview of the MacBook Pro with Retina-display. beautiful far

Friends, I do not sloupok and a MacBook Pro with Retina-review display has decided not to rush for one simple reason - not wanted to write material on the basis of short-term (or "siyuchasovyh") experience, very much machine Apple has turned interesting. Access to it was before, but you are short-lived and not complete. To understand how the device works, to feel it, it is necessary to exploit this gadget in their own working environment. When I was able to do it here then I began to be born an article about the perfect laptop modernity. I hope my experience will be useful.

IN June this year Apple has made another revolution in the IT-industry, although many people simply do not pay attention to it or did not attach special significance to enter the market MacBook Pro with Retina-display. There are several reasons.

Firstly, the share of OS X is still small compared to Windows, and is about 7%, respectively, of aluminum laptop uses much less users than Windows-machines. Secondly, there is no cheap Apple laptops, the company offers solutions in the upper price range. Yes, in terms of price / quality, they are often more interesting similar to the PC, but laptops under $ 500 do not look here.

As a result, with the interests of the people looked at the MacBook Pro with the Retina presentation-display, it is possible that something about it honored the web, and so it forgotten, but in vain. This is a revolution, not only in technical terms. scaling system instead of the standard selection screen resolution is unique, the quality of the most powerful machine in such a compact body - unprecedented, but, let's talk about everything in order.

A large laptop, small packing

At first glance it seems that the packaging of Apple notebooks is not very reliable, and between the cover and the device severe loaders have only a thin sheet of cardboard, and even more thin padding, but on the film laptop. But in fact it is only the second level of protection, and is transported to the device unprepossessing, but very strong cardboard packaging with a powerful damping corners inside. About her I said back in 2010, Review Apple MacBook Pro 13 "Since nothing has changed. And here's the same "second level of protection» MacBook Pro with Retina-display:

By the size of the box for a few centimeters thicker than in the 13-inch MacBook Air in 2011, but it is a little shorter. And in this case we are talking about so-called "white" device, officially delivered to Ukraine (in the Russian version, all similar). The fact that the new packaging extension cable is not located in a separate box, but in a niche under the laptop. There is also the power supply itself, and the traditional set with brief instructions, a polishing cloth to wipe the screen, stickers, apples and the official warranty card.

It seems to be a trifle, but it's good that the box has become even more compact, and this applies to the MacBook Air 2012 release. For someone this fact is not important, but I box on their laptops store as often change them, and much more pleasant to sell the device in it's entirety. I got the basic model, the configuration of which is described in the bottom of the box in the left corner:

It's funny, but it has been duplicated in the center of the box:

But in the right corner of the traditional playful icon Mac:

Air between the thin and thick Pro

Developing Retina MacBook Pro, Apple did not philosophize slyly and combined two different categories of devices in a single product, in terms of both hardware filling and design. In fact, the company has created the dream of many makovodov, who had worked with the traditional MacBook Pro, and Air. In particular, I like one of those users who do not always have enough performance MacBook Air 2010Although at the expense of SSD in many cases it has worked much more pleasant 13-inch MacBook Pro from the same release year. Nevertheless, compact solved.

With the move to 13-inch model MacBook Air in 2011 performance as the problem seems to be solved, but there are nuances, which I will discuss in the section with operating experience. Again, in favor of the said model we said as a more compact size and weight than the Pro, and use of SSD as a standard drive.

But even with such a seemingly fabulous machine I wanted something more in terms of technical capabilities and at the same time retaining a more or less reasonable size. I am sure that many in my head there is a kind of laptop is a dream to both the MacBook Pro, but thin, with the SSD, with a matte IPS-dipleem and 8 GB of RAM (4 GB of RAM really small, especially if you actively use Safari with a bunch of tabs open), with USB-ports on opposite sides, so even with a discrete GPU in boot. When Apple announced the Retina MacBook Pro, then I personally thought that this machine has been taken from the very dreams of the perfect laptop. Well, let's start with a dream design.

Classic, as it is

Why invent the wheel, if Unibody-design and so beautiful? That was no Johnny Ive, Chief Apple industrial designer, together with his team to invent something. body was taken from the MacBook Pro, a little flattened and slightly modified. As a result, the device has lost the optical drive, infrared port, status LED, but its thickness was the same as the MacBook Air at its thickest point - 18 mm. This achievement and considerable, especially when you consider what kind of monstrous stuffing could be placed inside the company's engineers, but about it later.

In addition to reducing the thickness of Apple has been able to achieve even a significant reduction in weight of the laptop in comparison with a conventional 15-dyyumovoy model. Retina MacBook Pro weighs 2.02 kg, Compared to 2.5 kg in a 15-inch MacBook Pro or 2.04 kg in the 13-inch. This, of course, not 1.35 kg in the 13-inch MacBook Air, but still, a serious result. The width of the device is 35.89 cm, depth - 24.71 cm, there is roughly the same as that of a normal 15-Key Pro.

In terms of input / output ports have a change. Positive or negative, they depend on the needs of the user. For me, as for MacBook Air owners who lack the communicative possibilities of the machine, the positive changes.

Compared with the traditional MacBook Pro machine lost Ethernet and FireWire 800 ports. Instead, on the left side has a pair of Thunderbolt connectors to which you can buy the appropriate adapter. I personally Ethernet in the laptop needed a couple of times in nearly four years of operation MacBook, FireWire 800 - just once, to throw the venerable Sony video camera godfather. From a pair of Thunderbolt ports instead of one, too, is not cold and not hot. I one else never used, too little peripheral for him. Hopefully, over time there will be more.

Microphone input also rested in the Bose, well, okay. The novelty has already two own microphone (Under perforation left), one of which is a complementary and used to improve the recorded sound and noise reduction system. If you still need an external microphone, the lack of models with the USB-connector. Incidentally, the recording quality in Retina MacBook Pro cool - noise are suppressed with a bang, even overclocked cooling fan, if well to load the iMovie, while the frequency range is very wide, and even higher excess can occur, but they are easy to prune editor. Worse, if there is nothing to trim.

USB ports We parted on the sides, as in the MacBook Air, cheers. Furthermore, there is support for USB 3.0 and is, pardon the expression, fucking! USB 3.0 drives on the market for several thousands of darkness and increase in speed due to the high-speed bus palpable - in 2,5-3 times. In addition, on the right side appeared - attention! - port HDMI. When Jobs was not like this, yes. To the company, instead of the active sale of adapters has built a modern video, What do you mean? But it is a novelty, and it is wildly happy.

card reader Normal, supports SD cards, SDHC and the SDXC, nothing new in this area has not yet been invented. The card also can not all cram into a laptop totally, and about a third of it sticking out. To some extent, it's convenient, and reliable slot design, but use the SD-card as a permanent storage device will not work. Except that use Nifty MiniDrive.

Separately want to dwell on the new power connector MagSafe 2Which is used not only in the MacBook Pro with Retina-display, but also in the MacBook Air 2012.

He became thinner pad - a little more compact, although the metal ring in the connector power supply is slightly longer and heavier. The shape of the connector is similar to the company's solutions are used in laptops until 2009 model year inclusive, only he was fully metallic.

I want to say that the new socket much more convenient to the old. It is easier to remove, is sufficient to pull the plug up or down. At the same time it keeps it very securely. During the active operation of the device a couple of days when it is mostly lying on his knees (to me so it is more convenient to work just lounging in a chair or on the couch and threw his legs) never accidental disconnection of the connector is not occurred. I still do not understand how a foreign friend I managed to break this connector Display in his laptop.

If we are talking about power supply, and you should take a closer look at him. This is the most powerful 85-watt version for the Apple notebooks, respectively, the size will be bigger than the MacBook Air.

Designed in California, made in China, but for the basic elements meets the Japanese company LiteOn - here is a vinaigrette. In the accessory is not heated, and in comparison with the power supplies for high-end Windows laptop, he simply baby.

Naturally, there are branded horns folding for winding the cord, but I personally prefer to twist it along. Since bending is not very large and less stress for the wire fracture. The cord slightly thicker than that of the power supply of the MacBook Air, it is rubberized and pleasant to the touch and is quite easy to get dirty.

Opening the notebook feel - something is not only not immediately realize what it was. Gone was the inscription below the display MacBook Pro:

She moved to the bottom panel:

LCD display for Pro-traditional models covered by glass, but now it is the matrix of a single entity, that the off the screen creates a cool effect completely black panel, the border between the border and display virtually no it is seen.

In addition, anti-reflective glass is covered with artful composition. It seems that it reflects the world around us, but just a little, and very much in this respect, resembles the screen in the MacBook Air. On the "mirror" as in conventional MacBook Pro, you can forget, when working with a new display of his reflection in it you will not see. I would like a coat, and on iPad.

Webcam or FaceTime camera, as it is called Apple's, is located on its traditional place - at the top of the display unit in the center. Normal HD-camera with a resolution of 720p - nothing outstanding:

display pretty tight joint. Tougher than the MacBook Air, but it can be opened with one hand without holding the lower part - everything is calculated accurately. The screen is in the open state is not loose and keeps monolith, even if the laptop is a good shake. Traditional recess on the front side so that you can pick up the lid, remained unchanged, but the hinge slightly moved away from the duct grille, which is clearly done to improve air circulation.

Also on the bottom panel on both sides have additional cooling holes notebook. They are virtually invisible and are on a slant, respectively, if you put the device on a table or even on the soft surface of the sofa, closed the hole will not.

Feet of hard rubber have become even flatter than even the MacBook Pro, not to mention the Air, where all their height well. Thus, the bottom of the Retina MacBook Pro can be easily scratched, falling grains of sand on a table or something. Consider these legs and no, they practically do not lift the laptop above the surface.

To "clog" laptop from amateurs poking around in the guts of the machine, Apple has used its proprietary bolts Pentalobe:

Find the right screwdriver is not a problem, but the inside is still doing nothing. Self-upgrade can not be anything.

Keyboard unit is exactly the same as all the other Apple laptops, or rather, it is still closer to the MacBook Air. After all, the power button has moved to all the other keys:

Someone needs to punish Apple for such a placement of the element, but I personally had never caused problems. What is more important in this case - is the keyboard itself. I do not know whether paying some attention to the fact that the two versions of MacBook keyboard is used - one in the MacBook Air, the second - in all models of MacBook Pro, including a review of the hero. The differences are minimal, but they are still there.

In particular, the MacBook Pro course have keys a little more, and the sound is slightly muffled when printing, pushing practiced softer. The taste and color of comrades there, but that option appeals to me more, though at the beginning, when you first move to a MacBook Air, the keyboard in "baby" like more than the personal 13-dyuymvogo MacBook Pro.

As for the trackpad, it is identical to that of all other MacBook models, in addition to the 11.6-inch, where it slightly decreased in height. According to the tactile sensations difference either.

Everything is relative

According to the MacBook Pro with the Retina senses weight and size, the display is still closer to the MacBook Air, than a MacBook Pro. He is very thin and very light. Here, for example, compare it with my MacBook Pro 13 "in a case:

beginner weight of just 400 grams more and it is felt only when you take a laptop over the edge in the open state. When compared with a conventional 15-inch MacBook Pro, that when carrying the MacBook Pro and the Retina when pulling / inserting into a backpack there are fears that he is now slip out of your fingers.

Hold the device on your lap comfortably, it does not slip and tries to fall. In general, the emotion of "knee operation" of the device are the same as from the 13-inch MacBook Air. By the way, here are some shots compared Retina MacBook Pro vs 11,6 and 13.3-inch MacBook Air:

Immediately I want to mention soundIssued to novice - he is powerful, very bass and simply perfect for both of notebook speakers. By quickly get used to, but when I started the corny video from YouTube and first heard the acoustics Retina MacBook Pro, I was shocked. Definitely the best speaker among Apple laptops and one of the best laptops in general. Loud, high-quality, mid and high frequencies are reproduced cleanly and powerfully, with the bass, of course worse, there is no built-in subwoofer, but they are present, too. With this laptop really can not worry about buying a portable speaker system, it is easy to announce a small room.

Serious "iron" is not serious in the small housing

According to its weight and size characteristics of the MacBook Pro with Retina-display, easily falls into the category of ultrabooks, and over the filling - a complete workstation, and very good gaming machine. You should not be embarrassed not to the large range of gaming OS X, on a laptop, you can easily install Windows, but I personally do not suffer so since the time of the move on the MacBook Air in 2010. Already mastered on OS X, and if you do operating system from Microsoft, and is required, that is, the desktop PC, acting as the family entertainment center. Accordingly, the quality of the gadget in Windows is not checked, but judging by the responses of colleagues, no problems with it.

So, based on Retina MacBook Pro is the platform Intel Ivy BridgeProvided 4-core Core i7 third generation with a frequency of 2.3 GHz (3.3 GHz in Turbo Boost mode) to 2.6 GHz (3.6 GHz mode Turbo Boost), plus there is a possibility to order configurations with Core i7 2,7 GHz with 8 MB cache in the third level (6 MB for the younger models processors).

RAM in the minimum configuration of 8 GB, you can order a machine with 16GB of RAM and redundant it, judging by the experience of operation of the gadget will not. Independently expand the amount of RAM you can not, it is soldered to the motherboard. SSD-drive capacity ranges from 256 to 512 GB, and for maniacs with fat wallets have the option of a 768-gigabyte SSD (+ $ 500).

Graphic system is integrated GPU Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 512 MB of memory and its own discrete graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB VRAM. The first is much more powerful than previous solutions the Intel, supports hardware video decoding, and it is enough to pull the interface OS X - apparent slowdown is not noticed. Features NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M is sufficient not only for everyday tasks, but also for games, and c is very good graphics quality settings. Switching between the adapter occurs on the fly depending on the current workload of the PC.

Display, it is simply fabulous and talk about it separately in the operating experience, because Apple has implemented a unique complex hardware and software solution, which not only impresses with its technical capabilities, but they are really easy to use. Technically this IPS-matrix with a resolution 2800h1800 points, approximately 5 megapixels, i.e., four times larger than the normal screen MacBook Pro 15,4 ". Density - 220 ppi. This is less than the new iPad with its 264 ppi and the iPhone 4 / 4S (326 ppi), but then the laptop display when interacting with it is farther from the eye than a phone or tablet. Thus, the picture clarity at all comparable devices, but the larger the diagonal of the screen, the more excited he is.

No less important in this case that Apple has been able to squeeze into a tiny laptop battery capacity of housing 95 Watt-hour battery life provides the laptop is not worse than the 13-inch MacBook Air and the other models Pro. The personal experience of operation is not declared seven, but, in general, is very good and definitely not worse than that of a personal 13-inch Air in 2011 in the top configuration.

Wireless Standard interfaces: Wi-Fi 802.11n (compatible with IEEE 802.11a / b / g) and Bluetooth 4.0. Cellular modem in Mac - is still a pipe dream.

For those who do not like to deal with all of these parameters, I would say easier - laptop in the "flying" applications run almost instantly, regardless of the number of process start, editing illustrations and photos for articles in Photoshop passes quickly and not napryazhno, Safari and even eats RAM not in themselves, but "bend" the system for two days of active use it and it failed.

And now, one more "BUT"- a huge difference in performance compared to the top-end MacBook Air 2011, I did not notice. This was when I moved to the 11.6-inch model in 2010 on the above laptop. This does not mean that younger Retina MacBook Pro is not much superior to last year's top-end power MacBook Air, just the last opportunity until enough for OS X and everyday tasks.

Nevertheless, the overall service experience depends not only on, roughly speaking, "chislodrobilki" inside the PC. There are many other factors and in some cases the Retina MacBook Pro surprised me. We turn to the most interesting, the real experience of operating this space laptop.

On working with tomorrow's technology

tests

When the unit was in my hands, the soul stirred old "zhelezyachnik" demanding tests. Still, the most technologically modern laptop with a processor more powerful than my big desktop machine. Retina display, of course, struck once again, but I could see a lot of him in the past, and to assess its better personal working conditions, to which the machine must first prepare and test run - the case of five minutes. Well, here are the results Geekbench 2:

MacBook Pro with Retina-display.

"Parrots" has turned out twice as much as in a top of a custom MacBook Air 2011 and it is very, very significant growth for the future and for complex tasks such as converting and video editing or games. No less surprised by the disk subsystem, namely, the SSD speed, tested using the free test Blackmagic Disk Speed ​​Test:

The result of my MacBook Air 2011 for comparison:

Impressive, is not it? But it's time to roll your account with all applications, data, in general, to create their own workspace. In the process once again to please the simplicity of migrating to OS X, which was one of the reasons for moving more than four years ago on this platform. launched "migration assistant"Connect an external hard drive to backup Time Machine, a pair of triple clicks, waiting 40-50 minutes (my copy takes about 100 GB), and the output will get its own workspace with all applications, settings, passwords, documents - the beauty!

Display

Well, you can start working. First of all - the display setting... yes I will sing his praises as a tough no screen in the desktop or laptops. Very slim, given its characteristics, with uniform illumination, and off a black monolith - krutoten!

Separate Apple Respect for the use of anti-reflective coating of the gloss problem and the presence of its own reflection, you can forget. Such problems in the Retina MacBook Pro is not, really. Even black frame with great difficulty, something reflected, and so dull that it and the attention is not drawn. I assume that this piece will appear in future models iPad will become the Wow-factor that will force people to once again favorite to replace the plate with a new model.

Incidentally, the frame is quite thin, much thinner than the MacBook Air 13 ", not to mention the 11.6-inch model. Display color rendering above all praise and traditionally for IPS-matrix, it is "warm", so to speak. Particularly bright and vivid colors appear closer to the red spectrum: yellow, orange. Although, what is there to judge - any picture on it looks superb.

Huge resolution, too, plays an important role, but more importantly - it is reasonable to use it. The interface of the same Windows 7 resolution 2880h1800 points looks at a 15.4-inch screen just crazy, and all the elements - ugly ones. In OS X is no such problem, and its solution is clearly worth a lot of man-hours.

In particular, similar to the applied iOS display system interface when Retina used for graphical elements with four times higher resolution. Thus, the best desktop according to Apple experts mode Retina-display shows the full resolution 2880h1800 points, but his effective amount is the same as 13.3-inch MacBook Air or a standard 15-inch MacBook Pro, and the screen will fit exactly the same elements and windows. But it is much, no - MUCH clearer. Especially for fans to see the pixels has a graphic (click on it to view in full resolution):

MacBook Pro with Retina-display.

At the top - the Retina-display, at the bottom - very good by today's standards the screen 13-inch MacBook Air. I think you realize how hard it is after MasBook Retina Pro laptops to return to simpler.

But in the photo above, there is one caveat - I used a slightly higher resolution of the scaled equivalent of the desktop to 1680x1050 pixels. It's like of a custom MacBook Pro 15,4 "with a matte display. I have that option seemed more comfortable and, as you can see, there is no blurring in the image icons.

That's where the magic comes into effect Apple. I do not know how this company has achieved, but the picture as I understand it, is displayed in a dot resolution 2880h1800 points, in this case the scale used is not proportional to 1440x900, and the other, but there is no blurring images. Most of all it reminded effect Resolution setting in the old CRT-monitors, who remembers such. Unlike modern LCD matrices, they have no problems with sharpness in its derivation in the resolution below the maximum.

But that's not all. Note the resolution of the desktop image below, it is clickable (as well as all the photos and screenshots to the article), made in the scale of 1680x1050 on Retina-display:

3360h2100 points!!! That is, the image is rendered in that resolution, and then processed and squeezed into the frame of the display capabilities. Score Elegant - a clear picture, the effective space on the desktop more. And if this little, you can go to the scale of 1920x1200 pixels and there are also maintaining maximum clarity, but it was too small for me.

You can, of course, to think, say, redrawn interface under this resolution and scale - the business somehow, but it seems to me, everything is much more complicated. After all, even a game image in the native resolution of 800x600 pixels is stretched to fill the screen with Retina its monstrous resolution 2880h1800 points much better, than it does, for example, Windows. Specially tested on the peerless Plants vs Zombies (forward to the sequel!). In the second case the game runs on your home Windows-computer with a connected thereto a 37-inch TV FullHD. Below is the original screens with Retina MacBook and the picture is seen to render at 800x600 pixels, but it looked great on the screen:

Here is an example render Bejeweled 3Running in native resolution of 1920x1200 pixels, but, judging by the screen, the picture was rendered resolution 3360h2100 points. Again, no distortion and blur on the screen it looked gorgeous - Magic:

Concluding the conversation about the display, note the brightness - it is not huge, but adequate. In most cases at a level comfortable to about 70% brightness. Although I am only beginning to experiment a bit with this parameter, and then all left at the mercy of a light sensor - it works well.

temperature conditions

MacBook Pro with Retina-display - it's very powerful and very compact notebook and the power + compact, usually resulting in a fairly high heating device. Yes, the Apple devices usually these things are good, but they often begin to make noise fans. That's only in the case of viewing a hero this rule does not work.

The company's engineers obviously spent a lot of time designing a clever device cooling system. Remember previously mentioned display hinge moved away from the grid, through which hot air is blown out, as well as on the bottom panel apertures. All this is done is not in vain. During the two days of active operation of the device CPU temperature never exceeded the threshold of 55 ° C, while in normal mode was in the region of 40 ° C.

MacBook Pro with Retina-display.

By "active operation", I mean not only a set of text, but also the processing of more than a hundred RAW-photos in Adobe Photoshop LightRoom 4, a dense work with Photoshop, viewing HD-video, games, web surfing furious on heavy sites with a bunch of tabs open, and so on. P. Never MacBook Pro with Retina-display did not make a noise fans, and for their work at the speed of 2000 rev / min, they are silent.

For example, for my 13-inch Air standard temperature conditions without any load - 55-60 ° C, and at the same circuit operating it for the day just beginning to break up their fans. In the same Adobe Photoshop LightRoom 4 even when the image processing notebook runs cooler, and in their "film development" in the JPEG he generally turns into plane taking off (exaggeration, of course, but the fans are accelerated to a maximum of 6500 rev / min, and the processor is heated to a temperature of more 80 ° C). In Retina MacBook Pro processor temperature even in the last case did not rise above 55 ° C - Miracle (ambient temperature in this case was 24-24 ° C).

As a result, the new product was one of the most "cold» Apple laptops. Perhaps the older model is heated more, but do not think much.

autonomy

Powerful filling consumes a lot of energy, but Apple claims that could squeeze into a tiny laptop battery, the ability to feed him up to seven hours in web browsing mode using Wi-Fi. Probably, if you disable the discrete graphics card and the display brightness to put on 50% or less, and it will be, but in my duty cycle of the machine worked less.

Actually, the cycle - is a wild surfing the web with 15-20 tabs open, sometimes even run Firefox (for need) constantly worked Byword, Skype, iMessages (pinned ICQ and GTalk), Sparrow, Tweetbot, Photoshop, plus a couple of dozen in Lightroom RAW-photos processed and exported to JPG, with half an hour played, typed texts, watching HD-video to YouTube. Altogether laptop worked on a single charge of about 4.5 hours. Excluding games and Lightroom can extend battery life up to 5.5-6 hours.

In addition, OS X 10.8 is known for its voracity. On Air battery life I have decreased from the OS for about an hour, compared with OS X 10.7. possible with the release of OS X 10.8.1, which Apple promises to solve the problem of "Jora" battery autonomy Retina MacBook Pro increase.

On the whole, the result is very good, given the power of a laptop and a gluttonous display.

About Retina-display and software

An overview of the Retina MacBook Pro I'm just not in a hurry because of the lack of the adapted software for the device in the first few weeks of its existence. Some journalists have a op raised about this, they say, it looks awful and blurry and did not come until the Retina time.

But the same time, as they say, and treats. Program actively adapt and among my working set virtually all applications perfectly friendly terms with the Retina, and those that do not play well, and so it is normal work. It's about Photoshop and Lightroom. Yes, if you look closely, you can see that piktogrammki icons and they are not designed for the Retina-display and look crooked, but somehow I do not look narrowly to them during operation. In general, any negative emotions about it, and work a little blurry menu items do not interfere. All the more so with the text there all ok.

In this case, Photoshop opens the image in a small scale the video, which also pleases. The same Pixelmator 2.1, adapted to the Retina-display displays the image point to point, and they to be considerably smaller, working with such inconvenient, at least when it comes to pictures Web. With more photos in Pixelmator is clearly better, but for those I use Lightroom.

By the way, Preview also opens the image point of the point - it does not much like it. And when it returns in Apple Preview function display resolution images directly in the caption of the window? But it's a little bit of a different "opera".

In turn, during web surfing I do not detect any problems associated with low-resolution content on some pages. Conspicuous highly diffuse elements virtually none. The same applies to the admin WordPress: Editor buttons, of course, a little blurred, but this time not annoying.

Below is a piece of the web page in full resolution, to evaluate what's there and how blurred:

About RAM

I was afraid that the 8 GB may not be enough for the Retina MacBook Pro. Still, the interface is processed in a huge resolution. But the fears proved groundless. There were, of course, a situation where the memory vyzhiralas system cleaned, but speed is not affected, and cleans the RAM machine: laptop fell asleep, I woke up - that you 5 GB free memory.

MacBook Pro with Retina-display.

Usually about 2 GB of RAM I have almost always been free. The result - a 16-gigabyte configuration can not bother and do not pay extra money. Although, if you do a lot of video editing, the additional memory does not hurt.

But the 4 GB would be exactly enough. Probably not for nothing that Apple has set a minimum threshold for the MacBook Pro with Retina-display, 8 GB. Often I feel a lack of memory in their own skin in a personal MacBook Air. Safari simply eater RAM. So, if you plan to buy a laptop, but the 2012 release, has not stinted on the configuration with 8 GB of RAM, it will not be superfluous in any case.

About subjective speed

New uniquely works quicker and smarter than the top-end MacBook Air 2011. But this is not particularly strongly felt, there is no critical superiority which could be observed during the transition from the Air 2010 on the model of the next year.

So, LightRoom little faster prints made to change the picture and twice more bright "displays" files. The Safari "moving" more pleasant and "heavy" sites, such as The Verge, Georgia actively and practically right to scroll smoothly. YouTube plays video and cheerful at the same time, if it is not full-screen, and in the middle of densely-packed with all sorts of elements of the page, there is no slowdown.

The system boots and wakes up too quickly, which is probably due to the more productive SSD and 8 GB of RAM.

With the world on a string, and in the end it turns out very beautiful "painting performance» Retina MacBook Pro. An increase in the speed of the owners of cars in 2011 will be felt clearly, and the apparatus is also very cold, which is nice. But the miracle did not wait.

On tactile sensations

Compared to the MacBook Air 13 "Traditional 13-inch MacBook Pro looks like a huge, 15-inch - just an elephant, but with the Retina MacBook Pro interesting situation. He is thin and quite light. Tactile sensations, when you work with a laptop on his knees (and I'm just so in the ground and working, like me), very similar to the MacBook Air.

If you carry the device from one place to invest in a bag or backpack and take out of them, then there is no fear that the machine slips from his fingers. 2 kg for me - it's comfortable limit for this kind of activity. But when used the 2.5-pound 15-inch MacBook Pro, then drag it was already not very comfortable.

Ie Retina MacBook Pro could be described as quite portable machine that often carry with them, at least in a backpack. From this perspective, the usual 15-inch MacBook Pro - it's more a desktop machine.

beautiful far

Apple has created a unique laptop. It is so far on the aggregate performance of the nearest competitor, that really evokes a sense of a space device is not of this world. But this is not the first time. Remember the iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air. Even if we take old devices such as PowerBook G3 or a Titanium PowerBook G4 and compare them with laptops that time, the difference will be huge not in favor of competitors.

Which in this case it is important, because this is another kick in the IT-industry, generously weighed by Apple. The trend is set, and it will take just six months to a year, as we shall see, the Windows counterparts Retina MacBook Pro: a thin, metallic, high-power and high-quality display. For the consumer, it is only a plus, because over time the trend moved in the segment of cheaper devices.

For me to fulfill a dream that was born when I first picked up iPhone 4And now comes another milestone in the history of IT-personal life. The dream is simple - to see clearer picture quality on all devices used daily, not just on the screen of your smartphone. In the spring, a new iPad with Retina-display, and now - Retina MacBook Pro. The circle is completed, the dream came true, it remains only to get a new laptop.

prices for a novelty in comparison with the US, of course, horses. In the Ukrainian realities younger model MacBook Pro with Retina-display costs about $ 3,000, the eldest - $ 4000, if it is a formal supply. Although now, students and teachers can buy a device with a 10-percent discount - an annual global initiative to season Apple "Back to School".

Well, have to sell unnecessary devices (Galaxy Tab 7.7 «davaydosvidaniya"), the current working machine and also to report the money to join the dream and enter into a new spiral in its gadzhetomanskoy life. After my first Mac was also a 15-inch MacBook Pro, an innovative model at the time with the Unibody-Corus, which first appeared in the Apple laptops. And to him then buy, had to sell almost all of their gadgets, like the legendary media player Cowon Q5W or less legendary Internet Tablet Nokia N810. As a result, she did not regret - it was worth it.

MacBook Pro with Retina-display is provided for review magazine "America"