#2012 APPLE MACBOOK PRO VALUE PRO#

With the exception of size, these two are nigh identical, starting with the port configuration.

#2012 APPLE MACBOOK PRO VALUE PRO#

If you're familiar with the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display that Apple shipped this past June, you're already ahead of the learning curve on this model. Hardware The 13- and 15-inch Retina models are, save for size, nigh identical.

Perfect portions of portability and performance? Let's find out. It's thinner and it's lighter than the current 13-inch Pro but promises better internals and the same battery life as the 13-inch Air.

Why the wait from one to the next? That's for Apple to know and us to speculate about (supply chain concerns? engineering issues?), but the important thing is that it's available now and it is, in many ways, an uncompromised, slightly smaller rendition of the 15-inch version that came before. Now, a little over four months later, here it is.

So, while we were excited to see a thinner, lighter 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display unveiled earlier this year, many of us were left asking one question: 'Where's the 13-inch version?' And, since many of those laps are irrevocably linked to owners who spend their days jetting around the globe to other companies' events, those laptops are quite often the travel-friendly MacBook Air. Look down the aisles at any Apple launch event, across the laps of dozens of journalists liveblogging or in some other way documenting the goings-on, and it's inevitable that you'll see MacBooks.

2012 apple macbook pro value