1. I am looking to buy the new 13" Macbook Retina when is comes out (as expected) in early October.
2. What pricing will I be looking at? And will the specs will similar to the current 15" model?
3. I am a noob so in terms of the specs I am really wondering if the 13" will be able to run Diablo III, multitable on a poker site and run 6/7 simple apps concurrently.
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1. I have my doubts as to whether or not it'll come out. If the 15" retina is having even the slightest performance issues, the 13" is sure to have more (see below).
2. I can almost guarantee the 13" will stay with a dual core processor (a big step down from quad, don't know if it affects the integrated GPU though, but it probably will). And it will
not have a discrete graphics card. It's almost impossible to fit just one of those into a 13" model, and if they do, it will surely not be as slim as the current 15".
3. Like I said above. The 15" can run Diablo 3 decently (45-50 fps at 1680 resolution). But it has trouble with retina mode. 1680 is less than 13" retina, so you will NOT be able to run the 13" retina model on retina settings.
Here's the thing, though. The 15", on 1440x900, can run D3 at a steady 50fps. That's with a quad core processor (processor is important for games like diablo) and a discrete graphics card. 13" will barely be able to handle it.
A closer benchmark would be to see how well the air can handle D3. The graphics will be essentially the same (HD4000) and CPU as well, except 13" retina will have a higher clock speed. On 1366 (regular) resolution, you can hope to run D3 at medium-low settings.
