![]() The two together price out to $2,618.99 - a savings of $229 off Apple's price for the Mac + AppleCare bundle, and the lowest price for this particular MacBook Pro with AppleCare anywhere by $34, according to our Macs + AppleCare Price Guide. You can also save another $105 by bundling a discounted 3-Year AppleCare Extended Protection Plan with this Mac by selecting it from the "Protections Plans" drop down menu on B&H's website. MGXC2LL/A) for $2,374.99, including B&H Photo, which throws in your choice of either a free copy of Parallel's Desktop for Mac or a 1-year subscription to LoJack for Laptops. Windows 8.1 (64-bit) 2.As of press time, several Apple Authorized resellers are selling the $2,499 high-end 15" MacBook Pro retail configuration we tested (model no. OSX 10.7.4 Lion 2.3GHz Intel Core i7-3610QM 8GB DDR3 SDRAM 1,600MHz 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 650M + 512MB Intel HD 4000 256GB SSD MacBook Air (13-inch, 2014)Īpple OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks 1.4GHz Intel Core i54260U 4GB 1,600MHz DDR3 SDRAM 1,536MB (shared) Intel HD Graphics 5000 128GB SSD Toshiba Satellite P50t-BST2N01 OSX 10.9 Mavericks 2.3GHz Intel Core i7-4850HQ 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1,600MHz 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 750M + Intel Iris Pro Graphics 512GB SSD MacBook Pro with Retina Display (15-inch, 2012) OSX 10.9.4 Mavericks 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-4770HQ 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1,600MHz 1,536MB Intel Iris Pro Graphics 256GB SSD MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2013) System configurations MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2014) Toshiba Satellite P50t-BST2N01 172 Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display (15-inch, 2012) 419 MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2014) 561 MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2013) 592 Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, 2014) 986 Note: Longer bars indicate better performanceįind more shopping tips in our Laptop Buying Guide. HandBrake multimedia multitasking test (in seconds) Still, despite the lack of new razzle dazzle, the only slightly newish 15-inch MacBook Pro remains one of our favorite premium power-user laptops, thanks to its solid unibody construction, excellent display, and great all-around performance. ![]() ![]() Still, these upgrades are minor at best, and in most cases, not nearly as important as the price cuts some models (but not this one) have received at the same time.Īt $1,999 and up, the 15-inch Pro remains a hefty investment, and with the 13-inch MacBook Air now down to a mere $999, it may be tougher to justify, especially as the basic design and ideas behind it are now three generations old. ConclusionĪpple has quietly upgraded almost the entire Mac lineup so far in 2014, minus the still-new Mac Pro desktop and the often-overlooked Mac Mini. ![]() The new system ran for 9 hours and 21 minutes in our video playback battery life test, while the 15-inch 2013 MacBook Pro, which had some small component differences, but was overall similar, ran for 9 hours and 52 minutes in the same test. The integrated Intel Iris Pro graphics aren't going to drive many high-end games, especially at anything close to the system's native 2,880x1,800 resolution, but last year's Tomb Raider reboot ran at 39.6 frames per second at high detail settings when we dialed the resolution down to 1,440x900 pixels.Įxcellent battery life is a given for modern MacBooks, but with no change to battery technology and a CPU from the same family as the previous generation, you shouldn't expect an improvement over last year's Pro. The exterior design of the MacBook Pro remains unchanged since the 2013 model we reviewed (and essentially unchanged from the 2012 original, as well), so much of the analysis we wrote for the previous model remains unchanged. ![]()
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