This is a review for Apple MacBook Pro 15" (2012 model) with a Retina screen (2880x1800). This laptop is for professional programmers. Why is it so complicated? The answer is in this review.
Content
- Characteristics
- And photo
- Screen
- Performance
- Pros and cons
- Video review
- Price: $2198 on Amazon Store
Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM, 4 cores / 8 threads, the frequency of 2.3 GHz, 6 MB cache in the third level.
Based architecture: Ivy Bridge Based, made on the 22-nm process technology and includes new graphics core HD Graphics 4000. Maximum clock speed when downloading a single core - 3.3 GHz. Max TDP 45 W.
In simple terms, a regular user will not see the difference in speed of the CPU compared to the previous generation.
Based architecture: Ivy Bridge Based, made on the 22-nm process technology and includes new graphics core HD Graphics 4000. Maximum clock speed when downloading a single core - 3.3 GHz. Max TDP 45 W.
In simple terms, a regular user will not see the difference in speed of the CPU compared to the previous generation.
Intel ® Core ™ i7-3615QM Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.30 GHz)
Integrated Graphics Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 with 512 MB. On average, equal to 20-30% of the performance of Intel HD Graphics 3000.
Frequency of the GPU
As for the discrete graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, it proved better than Radeon HD 6750M, even faster in some tests by 5-10%.
In the game Portal 2 (resolution 1680x1050) MacBook Pro 15 Retina showed 54.8 fps, and MacBook Pro 15 (2011) - 45.2 fps.
256Gb SSD drive that supports TRIM. Test results showed significantly greater speed reading and writing of data than the MacBook Air SSD 2011.
Details below is in the performance section. Increase size SSD drive with 256Gb to 512Gb or 768Gb possible by replacing this down:
Details below is in the performance section. Increase size SSD drive with 256Gb to 512Gb or 768Gb possible by replacing this down:
SSD produced by Samsung (830 series)
C replacement 8Gb memory it is worse, most of all, it can not be replaced without replacing the motherboard because the memory soldered into it.
Hynix H5TC2G83CFR DDR3L SDRAM
Bluetooth 4.0 applied low power consumption by using a special algorithm. The transmitter is activated only while sending data, which allows operation on a single battery type CR2032 for several years. Standard provides a data rate of 1 Mbit / s data packet size 8-27 bytes. The new version of two Bluetooth-enabled devices can connect in less than 5 milliseconds, and keep it at a distance of 100 m is used for this advanced error correction, and the required level of security provides 128-bit AES-encryption.
Hynix H5TC2G83CFR DDR3L SDRAM
Bluetooth 4.0 applied low power consumption by using a special algorithm. The transmitter is activated only while sending data, which allows operation on a single battery type CR2032 for several years. Standard provides a data rate of 1 Mbit / s data packet size 8-27 bytes. The new version of two Bluetooth-enabled devices can connect in less than 5 milliseconds, and keep it at a distance of 100 m is used for this advanced error correction, and the required level of security provides 128-bit AES-encryption.
Assembly is standard for laptops Apple - this is the power cord and adapter to an electrical outlet, printed documentation, MagSafe power adapter 2, the laptop and all. There is no proprietary USB-stick, instead, there is a separate section Recovery HD to restore the system and install Lion. It should be noted that the owners of MacBook Pro and Air 2012 will be free upgrade to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Power supply: MagSafe 2 up to 85W with a modified connector. Its magnetic part has become thinner and wider, so the old power supply new laptops are not compatible, but it can be fixed by purchasing an adapter with MagSafe at MagSafe 2 for $10.
Full-sized touchpad. Backlit keyboard.
All done on 5 +
New MagSafe power connector 2, two ports Thunderbolt (data transfer rate up to 10Gbps), two ports USB 3.0 (one on each side), headphone jack, full-size HDMI port and a slot for SD, available for USB 3.0.
Unfortunately, MacBook Pro (Retina) lost RJ-45 connectors. If you want it, then you will need to separately purchase an adapter.
(Adapter Apple Thunderbolt Gigabit Ethernet ) comparison with the size of iPad 2
Fans dig deeper in the guts of the laptop will need to
buy a special screwdriver
The back cover is modified. First, there is an inscription in both MacBook Pro and in the iPad.
Second, there are the ventilation holes on the sides for cool air intake and better cooling. As for the heat and noise, while browsing the site, work with office documents and watching videos, the laptop is behaving totally silent.
Fans spinning at 2 thousand revs. Case becomes warm in the top of the keyboard, next to the touchpad, where the palm touch. By the way, the fan blades are different lengths and thus the noise from them is more pleasant to the ear, though in volume when the CPU utilization is at 100% laptop noise as well as the previous model MacBook Pro.
buy a special screwdriver
The back cover is modified. First, there is an inscription in both MacBook Pro and in the iPad.
Second, there are the ventilation holes on the sides for cool air intake and better cooling. As for the heat and noise, while browsing the site, work with office documents and watching videos, the laptop is behaving totally silent.
Fans spinning at 2 thousand revs. Case becomes warm in the top of the keyboard, next to the touchpad, where the palm touch. By the way, the fan blades are different lengths and thus the noise from them is more pleasant to the ear, though in volume when the CPU utilization is at 100% laptop noise as well as the previous model MacBook Pro.
During video encoding in synthetic benchmarks and in games laptop noticeably warm, but not burn).
Is the MacBook Pro Retina really thin?
Differences compared with conventional Proshka noticeable immediately, because the laptop is not small in size (length, width), the effect of such a small thickness (1.8 cm) more apparent.
Differences compared with conventional Proshka noticeable immediately, because the laptop is not small in size (length, width), the effect of such a small thickness (1.8 cm) more apparent.
Reduced weight to 2.2 kg (for MacBook Pro 15 "2011 - 2.56 kg), also fell for him. Notebook easier to carry, but easily MacBook Air did not compare ...
Briefly about Baubles. Power button is now located in a block of function keys, as the MacBook Air.
This laptop is present just two microphones, one of which suppresses background noise. The recording quality can be evaluated in the survey Mountain Lion (see video at the end of the review).
During the presentation, the Apple MacBook Pro 15"(Retina) was to focus on improving the quality of the sound. To my mind, or rather hearing, speakers sound grew louder, with no creaking at maximum volume is not, and that's all the bass is also not enough.
FaceTime camera can now shoot video in 720p.
Retina Display
Glossy widescreen display with a diagonal of 15 "inch LED backlit with a huge resolution of 2880x1800 (density of 220 ppi).
The display has a very good IPS-matrix with excellent viewing angles and excellent color reproduction. Pixels on a screen is not visible, this is equivalent to a change from iPad 2 in the iPad 3, and we get a huge 15" Retina display.
If you have a good vision, you can configure the image that all items on the screen and the text will be large and blurred. Medium size is recommended, which corresponds to the scaled resolution of 1440x900 on a standard MacBook Pro 15".
How are applications that are not optimized for the Retina? I detailed in the video review later, and then just want to note that when viewing site in Safari, fonts are clear, but the graphics have a markedly inferior resolution (This was particularly noticeable on OS X 10.7 Lion).
After installing the OS X Mountain Lion GM, I enable anti-aliasing and all the graphics on sites with low resolution bit lost in the definition, but it disappeared ladder. The pictures are difficult to show, as in the screenshots, but I think you can evaluate that applications are not optimized for retinitis we blur (pixel) text and graphics.
CPU Test
Memory Test
Disk Test
Separate SSD drive tests GeekBench and CINEBENCH 11.529
A little more synthetic. Test results CINEBENCH:
After installing the OS X Mountain Lion GM, I enable anti-aliasing and all the graphics on sites with low resolution bit lost in the definition, but it disappeared ladder. The pictures are difficult to show, as in the screenshots, but I think you can evaluate that applications are not optimized for retinitis we blur (pixel) text and graphics.
Performance
Start and stop times
Almost immediately I put the OS X Mountain Lion GM and it had a positive impact on the overall animation interface. Browsing, animation system interface, everything is now working much better, but you need to disable the integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000) and use NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, otherwise settling fps in animation interface will be visible to the eye.
By the way, to upgrade from Lion Mountain Lion on MacBook Pro 15 (Retina) 2.3GHz took only 14 minutes. During the upgrade, I absolutely did not hear any noise from the laptop, just peace and quiet.
I was very pleased with performance in games, clearly this can be seen in a video review on the example of Dirt 2 (see video at the end of the review). I note only that if the laptop is running on battery power, not the network, the game performance drops significantly. now turn to the synthetic tests, and before that give measurements in time on and off the laptop.
Start and stop times
(Three measurements carried out, the results below)
| Inclusion | 15.15, 16.04, 15.46 seconds. |
| Shutdown | 2.20, 2.0, 2.10 sec |
Xbench tests
Unfortunately, OS X Mountain Lion is not working Test Thread Test, so the total score is not worth watching, but on certain other tests, including test drive SSD, it is already possible to see and appreciate. To compare the test results led MacBook Air 13 "Core i7 1.8 GHz (2011), MacBook Air 6.11 "previous generation (Intel Core 2 Duo 01.04 GHz ) and MacBook Pro 15 ", Core i5 2.4GHz (MC371). As stated, the figures speak for themselves.
CPU Test
- MacBook Pro 15 "Retina, Core i7 2.3 GHz (2012) - 264.00
- MacBook Air 13 ", Core i7 1.8 GHz (2011) - 216.44
- MacBook Pro 15 ", Core i5 2.4GHz (2010) - 191.96
- MacBook Air 11.6 ", Core 2 Duo 1.4 GHz (2010) - 98.36
Memory Test
- MacBook Pro 15 "Retina, Core i7 2.3 GHz (2012) - 662.15
- MacBook Air 13 ", Core i7 1.8 GHz (2011) - 553.35
- MacBook Pro 15 ", Core i5 2.4GHz (2010) - 303.72
- MacBook Air 11.6 ", Core 2 Duo 1.4 GHz (2010) - 137.45
Disk Test
- MacBook Pro 15 "Retina, Core i7 2.3 GHz (2012) SSD - 485.53 (speed record over 400Mb/sec!)
- MacBook Air 13 ", Core i7 1.8 GHz (2011) SSD - 362.39
- MacBook Pro 15 ", Core i5 2.4GHz (2010) HDD - 51.14
- Apple MacBook Air 11.6 ", Core 2 Duo (2010) SSD - 248,536
Separate SSD drive tests GeekBench and CINEBENCH 11.529
- MacBook Pro 15 "Retina, Core i7 2.3 GHz (2012) - 11,867
- MacBook Air 13 ", Core i7 1.8 GHz (2011) - 6318
- MacBook Pro 15 ", Core i5 2.4GHz (MC371LL / A) - 5617
Test results MacBook Air 13 ", Core i7 1.8 GHz (2011).
A little more synthetic. Test results CINEBENCH:
Duration of the Apple MacBook Pro 15"(Retina)
Built-in high-capacity removable battery ( up to 7 hours and 30 days standby time ). The battery has a capacity of 8344 mAh.
Explanation: they have different voltage, so different values in watt-hours, and in capacity mAh really have iPad 3 is higher.
- MacBook Pro 15 Retina - 8344 mAh (95 Wh)
- Apple iPad 3 - 11560 mAh (42.5 Wh)
Explanation: they have different voltage, so different values in watt-hours, and in capacity mAh really have iPad 3 is higher.
So, as I tested it. The test was entirely similar to that which I spent in the review of Apple MacBook Pro 15" Core i5 2.4GHz, MacBook Air 13" Core i7 1.8 GHz (2011) and MacBook Air 11.6" (2010) . before the test MacBook Pro (Retina) was fully charged. Backlit display unscrewed to the maximum, the keyboard backlight is off. Enabled Wi-Fi. During the test, a movie trailer played out "The Legend" (FullHD 1080p) on your player VLC.
Pro: Classy screen as view angles and details of fonts (not visible pixels)
Very good endurance for such a powerful stuffing (6-7 hours of continuous charge will)
Excellent build (solid body), great design, compact size and weight for a 15"laptop.
It is absolutely noiseless when using the Internet, watching video or working with documents (for fan speed does not exceed 2,000 thousand), in this mode, the bottom part of the case, where are the palm stays cool, very good gaming performance; USB 3.0, and a full-size HDMI port.
Cons: Animation interface while facilitating integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000) noticeably limping, to face 18-22fps and visible mikroryvki; When masshtibirovannom resolution is not clear how it will look at the final result in the monitor with an ordinary resolution.
A simple example, for instance, you need to make a banner width 520px, if you specify the width of this image on the MacBook Pro Retina, you will get a very small picture and edit it difficult, so the MBP Retina, paradoxically sounds - this laptop is not for the designer, and programmer or a person who is consumed content, very few applications optimized for Retina resolution and they look, to say the bad; you need to buy a separate adapter for FireWire and RJ-45.
Conclusions.
This laptop is ambiguous. It's definitely much like the way dimensions and screen, add here the excellent performance. True, Integrated Graphics Intel HD 4000 for such a huge resolution is weak, so I recommend you to switch to the discrete and enjoy life, apparently, so the Mountain Lion laptop increasingly defaults to the GT 650M graphics card.
The Apple Macbook Pro 15" With Retina Screen is the laptop of the future. I met only one site, the schedule on which the resolution is optimized for Retina and it is the official website of Apple, also have big problems with applications that look great on the screen, a chic really bad ...
I am glad that it is dealing with time fix . Currently no Adobe CS6, or Office are not compatible with the retina and in such applications you will receive on-screen pixel font, graphics, and at best, smooth images, but blurred.
The Apple Macbook Pro 15" With Retina Screen is the perfect laptop for programmers and writers, because on a screen of any text looks clear, and something to code on it a pleasure for the eyes and say thank you. If you are the most time consuming content on a laptop (Web browsing, video, games), this laptop as you will like. Designers, I would not recommend this laptop as a scaled resolution to play with you a malicious joke.
So obviously, the MacBook Pro Retina proved itself better than less productive, but long-running MacBook Air 13"(2011), we can safely say that for 6-7 hours of office work MBP Retina enough screen brightness 50-60%. If talk about the temperature of the CPU and the fan noise, the time to play Full HD video, the temperature of the nuclei not exceed 60 degrees. Fans spun for 2 thousand revolutions in which they absolutely can not hear!
Fans start to grow, only at the processor's temperature over 90 degrees and reach speeds of 4,600 rpm. That's when the noise is very noticeable, but to get to those values, you have to run a synthetic test, which will be a long time to load all CPU cores at 100%.
In other cases (for Web browsing, video, etc.) CPU temperature exceeds 60 degrees, cooler spin at 2000 rpm.
Web browsing synthetic test (100% CPU usage)
In other cases (for Web browsing, video, etc.) CPU temperature exceeds 60 degrees, cooler spin at 2000 rpm.
Pro: Classy screen as view angles and details of fonts (not visible pixels) Very good endurance for such a powerful stuffing (6-7 hours of continuous charge will)
Excellent build (solid body), great design, compact size and weight for a 15"laptop.
It is absolutely noiseless when using the Internet, watching video or working with documents (for fan speed does not exceed 2,000 thousand), in this mode, the bottom part of the case, where are the palm stays cool, very good gaming performance; USB 3.0, and a full-size HDMI port.
Cons: Animation interface while facilitating integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000) noticeably limping, to face 18-22fps and visible mikroryvki; When masshtibirovannom resolution is not clear how it will look at the final result in the monitor with an ordinary resolution. A simple example, for instance, you need to make a banner width 520px, if you specify the width of this image on the MacBook Pro Retina, you will get a very small picture and edit it difficult, so the MBP Retina, paradoxically sounds - this laptop is not for the designer, and programmer or a person who is consumed content, very few applications optimized for Retina resolution and they look, to say the bad; you need to buy a separate adapter for FireWire and RJ-45.
Conclusions.
This laptop is ambiguous. It's definitely much like the way dimensions and screen, add here the excellent performance. True, Integrated Graphics Intel HD 4000 for such a huge resolution is weak, so I recommend you to switch to the discrete and enjoy life, apparently, so the Mountain Lion laptop increasingly defaults to the GT 650M graphics card.
The Apple Macbook Pro 15" With Retina Screen is the laptop of the future. I met only one site, the schedule on which the resolution is optimized for Retina and it is the official website of Apple, also have big problems with applications that look great on the screen, a chic really bad ...
I am glad that it is dealing with time fix . Currently no Adobe CS6, or Office are not compatible with the retina and in such applications you will receive on-screen pixel font, graphics, and at best, smooth images, but blurred.
The Apple Macbook Pro 15" With Retina Screen is the perfect laptop for programmers and writers, because on a screen of any text looks clear, and something to code on it a pleasure for the eyes and say thank you. If you are the most time consuming content on a laptop (Web browsing, video, games), this laptop as you will like. Designers, I would not recommend this laptop as a scaled resolution to play with you a malicious joke.
