Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display Notebook Review - Part I

Rumors about the imminent appearance of MacBook Air with screen sizes 15 inches have been around for a long time. As befits a rumor, they were greatly exaggerated: instead of "nedonoutbuka" with a large display, Apple introduced a complete new generation of MacBook Pro, a thin and light, but not weak - and even with a smart IPS-display, the highest resolution. The brand-new MacBook Pro is made in the normal range for the Apple design. The essential difference, in fact, only one - the thickness of the case. If only the figures, it is not decreased so dramatically, only a quarter from 24 to 18 millimeters.

But do not forget that the body shape clever hiding the extra millimeters. In assessing the thickness of the eye focuses on the vertical side walls of the body - and that's just this part is really decreased significantly, by more than half. Therefore, the new MacBook Pro looks much slimmer than the old one.

Despite the use of the display with the same diagonal - 15.4 inches - considerably changed and horizontal dimensions, "retinoic» MacBook Pro half a centimeter shorter than normal and two millimeters already (against 359h247 364h249 mm).

Housing, as in the other MacBook is made of anodized aluminum. As part of the stiffness to it have no complaints - the main part is very solid, except that you can bend the hammer. The only exception - the bottom. Detail is too thin and under strong pressure a little flex. However, no real problems, this fact does not promise. Internally, there are several dampers that prevent the panel to bend so that was a risk of damaging the electronics.

The Apple in the past, to put it mildly, do not overdo it with the number of markers, logotip, labels, stickers and the like marketing garbage on the notebook. But in the bottom of the display frame remaining MacBook write the model name. The "retina" is not even this line.

Keyboard in Apple laptops completely uniform across virtually the entire model range: the MacBook Air 13 to be removed from production giant model MacBook Pro 17. Since the cards "retinoic" Macbook came to our country unofficially, it was used by the U.S. keyboard layout.Discuss it does not make sense - the official supply AMBPwRd be a very different version, the British, with the added Cyrillic markings.

Button long-stroke, as in all the other MacBook. This compares favorably with thin notebooks with an apple on the cover of many ultrabooks.

Of course, there is a backlit keyboard. Now it only works in the dark - if around a light, light sensor, mounted in the top of the display frame, next to the camera prevents wasting energy.

Touchpad makbukah have long perfected, so to change anything in it would be pointless. Designers and did not - the touchpad is the same as the MacBook Pro 15 in the last generation. Even the dimensions have not changed - the same 104 by 76 millimeters.

Modern "vindobuki" MacBook approached the size touch panels. But for convenience touchpad Apple is still leading with a very large margin

As usual in makbukah, front and rear side spared the communication connectors.

The front part of the body is fully occupied battery, located on the rear edge of vent holes.

Accordingly, all the connectors are located on the sides of the housing. Due to the fact that the optical drive in AMBPwRd not, the designers managed to breed a lot of ports. Set of communications suit any user: there are both innovative and yet exotic Thunderbolt in the amount of two pieces, and the more usual HDMI and USB 3.0.

Compared with last year's MacBook Pro 15 there are two significant changes, in addition to the already mentioned thickness of the body.First, the missing light battery. Second, a new generation of MacBook (not only in Retina, the other models is also applicable) used a new power connector - it is more in width, but less in height. Pins are still five, but they are somewhat different.

Therefore, despite the fact that the power supplies themselves have not changed - the same shape, the same output parameters of the same size and weight - for a new MacBook old adapter will not work.

The good news: Apple got rid of the format of the connector where the wire starts along the hull. The bad news: the new connector does not allow to use the old charge

The battery is integrated into the housing. And not just built, but "very integrated": if you had applied for fastening screws Apple, now the battery is glued to the body. Used six different size batteries, giving a total capacity of more than 90 W * h

At this time we do not have to disassemble the laptop, but the monsters art dismantling of iFixit have already done so - be sure to check with their report