Late 2012 apple macbook retina upgrade#

On the left you get Apple's newer MagSafe 2 power socket - that's important because without an adapter you won't be able to use your old MacBook Pro power pack - two Thunderbolt ports which can run at speeds up to 10 Gbps, a USB 3 port and a headphones socket. With no optical drive we are treated to a bevy of new ports split unevenly down both sides of the laptop left and right.

Late 2012 apple macbook retina upgrade#

Likewise there is no way to get into the laptop to change the battery and you can't upgrade the memory either. It's clad in aluminium, has a backlit island keyboard, and large glass trackpad. But Apple isn't selling this as a beefed-up Air, it is selling it with the Pro moniker, and while it could be seen to be merely semantics, we feel it's important.ДЄs a MacBook Pro we worry that this won't be powerful enough for you as a MacBook Air it's a lot fatter and heavier for a device that doesn't give you much above and beyond what the Air delivers.В That leaves us wanting more from the MacBook Pro 13-inch, and suggests that if you want real power you'll have to go for the much larger 15-inch model.ДЄside from the obvious size and weight differences, the MacBook Pro keeps the same design ethos we've seen before. Had Apple branded this new laptop as merely the new MacBook, this review would have been very different, the exclusion of a discrete graphics card wouldn't have been a issue. In our testing during this review we've found the Air does a very good job of keeping up (for clarity it is a 1.8GHz Intel Core i7 with 4GB RAM).

What doesn't help the Pro is that the 13-inch Air is just SO good.

For day-to-day tasks it breezes by with little sign of effort, while still being light enough to take with you on the road.В However, as soon as you start doing any real heavy lifting it will start to struggle, which makes us question the 'Pro' label. There is no doubting that the MacBook Pro is a lovely machine.