

A similarly configured standard 13" MBP would set you back $1,499, and I'd say $200 for the 2560 x 1600 Retina panel is a fair upcharge. And it's a pound lighter and 0.2" thinner. Basically, it's a 13" MacBook Pro standard model with a seriously upgraded display and the SSD option in terms of specs. The optical drive is gone to make the machine thinner and lighter. It has a healthy 8 gigs of DDR3 1600MHz RAM soldered on the motherboard and a less than capacious 128 gig SSD drive.
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For $1,699 you get a dual core full mobile Intel Core i5 CPU clocked at 2.5GHz (not the slower ULV CPU used in Ultrabooks and the MacBook Air). 13.3" Retina Mac on the other hand is a bit more pedestrian in terms of specs. The 15" Retina offers killer specs, a phenomenal display and it's crazy thin and light (0.71" and 4.46 pounds).

The 13" Retina's biggest competitor is the excellent 15" MacBook Pro with Retina display that came out several months ago. The 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display is another of those Apple products that's stirring controversy: is it wildly overpriced, or is it everything you could want from a 13" powerhouse and thus worth the price? It's a little of both. In Chief (twitter: Note March 2015: Read and watch our review of the 2015 13" MacBook Pro Retina. What's not: The price! No dedicated graphics option. What's hot: Phenomenal display, luxury design and materials, very portable. Home > Notebook Reviews > 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Displayġ3" MacBook Pro with Retina Display Editor's rating (1-5):
