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Haswell rMBP Reviews
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How is 13" inch battery life, 2.4 ghz vs 2.6 ghz? Asking as the 15" battery life seems to be best with the base processor.
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it shouldn't be that much less. you'll notice it if you constantly run programs that are taxing and that would make it kick into turbo boost.
Wow, that is some impressive battery life!
Yes the Engadget review is not particularly good they give some inane commentary on the specs which everyone can look up online, but they don't give any good qualitative comparison. And everyone keeps talking about the 50 gram difference between the 2013 in the 2012 retina MacBook - as if anyone can actually feel that. As far as I know yes SSD drives can power down because the electronics in them actually use quite a bit of power so almost all of these more complex microcontroller chips have a sleep function.
I'm just waiting for the Migration Assistant to finish using Thunderbolt then I'll be able to give my own quick review of the retina MacBook Pro 13 inch compared to the MacBook Air 2011.
Apologies for poor grammar this is all being dictated on my android phone
Just read the Engadget review. Their test/claim of over 11 hours on video playback sounds amazing. I'll be taking extremely long flights with this thing, including a 13 hour one next year, so I'm glad to hear that. I'll definitely test it out for myself, though.
How is 13" inch battery life, 2.4 ghz vs 2.6 ghz? Asking as the 15" battery life seems to be best with the base processor.
Thanks
I'll be receiving my 2.6 GHZ 13" soon and will report on any battery life.
Cnet's 13-inch MBP review is up for what it's worth. Again that battery life, wow! I would like to see more benchmarks on Maverick MBPs vs Maverick MBAs though...
http://www.cnet.com/laptops/apple-macbook-pro-with/4505-3121_7-35831098.html
http://www.cnet.com/laptops/apple-macbook-pro-with/4505-3121_7-35831098.html
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Most of my long haul flights have had outlets on board
But that battery life is in MBA territory...
Wow.
Pretty good video comparison between the 13" rMBP and 2013 MBA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDnZZtYBHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDnZZtYBHE
13" review from "The Verge." Haven't read it yet; I hope it isn't as ridiculous as their 15" review.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5044874/13-inch-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-review-2013
OK, I read it. Not much new, basically saying the same as the other reviews. Here's good news though:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5044874/13-inch-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-review-2013
OK, I read it. Not much new, basically saying the same as the other reviews. Here's good news though:
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added - thanks guys. i can def agree with the battery life on the 8gb/256gb model.
Great review. Thought it was much better than their 15-inch review, which read like an advertisement, although I liked that one too. Interesting that they thought the speakers sucked and sounded "tinny/shallow".
The 13" may not have the mind blowing power that the 15" offers, but it's a great machine. Some people just aren't willing to step up to the 15-inch form factor.
+1 and heck make that +2 vote as well.
What I would like to know is my raw processing gains from 2.3 to 2.6
and 512 vs 1TB gains as well in Capture One but know one runs those tests. Capture One is very processor and core dependent image raw processing software and taxes my system the hardest, my fans completely max out and so do my cores running a big batch. Speed is huge here as the difference in time when running hundreds of files can be huge on deadlines.
A test I just have to guess at for now and do it when I get a new one. Just have to spend the extra money and be done with it. Its 700 bucks I could use elsewhere but its also a big tax break as well. LOL
From the review: "The problem is simple real estate 1280 x 800 isn't that much screen space. I can see more on my 13-inch, 1440 x 900 Air than on the 13-inch Pro (though everything on the Pro is far nicer to look at). You can set the resolution to a maximum of 1680 x 1050, but it makes text squint-inducingly tiny"
That's lazy and deceptive journalism. The 13" rMBP can also be configured to display at 1440x900, so you're not stuck with either too little real estate or squint-inducingly tiny resolutions.
How can you compare the 650 vs Iris Pro by doing export tests? The 2013 Haswell rMBP has a much faster SSD thus any performance gains in export tests over the Ivy Brige MBP can't be attributed to the Iris Pro?
Or perhaps I'm seeing this wrong.
Hopefully AnandTech gets to his soon. He had an iPad Air review ready as soon as the embargo was lifted.
Macworld's review of the 13".
http://www.macworld.com/article/205...w-thinner-lighter-and-faster-never-hurts.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/205...w-thinner-lighter-and-faster-never-hurts.html
Isn't the processing gain fairly straightforward to figure out from the Geekbench scores, or even the raw clock speed frequency difference? Architecturally they are both i7, so I would expect at most a 13% increase. 9% on the Turbo speeds...
For the i5->i7 upgrades it makes sense to re-run the review, as both the CPU class and frequency change.
Here's one by Wired, UK. For the top-end 15" model.
http://www.wired.co.uk/reviews/laptops/2013-10/macbook-pro-retina-late-2013
http://www.wired.co.uk/reviews/laptops/2013-10/macbook-pro-retina-late-2013
I'd venture a guess they messed up some of their numbers in those graphs... its all over the map and makes little sense.
Anand is much more thorough than outfits like the Verge. I'd expect a few days yet.
It all depends on when he got a sample and what else he's been working on, but their 13" 2013 MBA review went out 2 weeks after the model was announced (Macrumors buyer's guide dates it at 10 June, Anandtech review is dated 24 June), so that should provide some rough guidance.