Okay so I'm about to buy a MacBook Pro Retina soon, and when I had a closer look at the 13" model, I have noticed that there is a 2.5 i5 with 128gb, and a 2.6 i5 with 256gb... What is the difference with the processors? Have Apple just clocked it up by 0.1 Ghz? Or are they different CPUs?
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Confused with the 13" MacBook Pro Retina models
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The ones with the 2.5 GHz processor were originally released in October 2012 and the ones with the 2.6 GHz processor were released in February 2013 when Apple tweaked a couple of things in the rMBP. The processors themselves are pretty much the same (you won't notice the 0.1 GHz increase for most tasks).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Third_generation_.28Retina.29
Look under technical specifications of the rMBP about 3/4s way down. You likely won't notice a difference between the CPUs unless you're doing something very CPU intensive.
Look under technical specifications of the rMBP about 3/4s way down. You likely won't notice a difference between the CPUs unless you're doing something very CPU intensive.
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As the others have said, you won't notice any speed difference for 99.9% of the time. The only time you'll see a difference is if the CPU is maxed out, and even then the performance increase is low single digit percentages. For 60 seconds of hardcore crunching, you might save a second or two.