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New Photos of 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Show Battery Layout, Ports, and More [Updated]

krzyglue said:
Uh I think you're overstating the number of games coming to OSX. So far it's still pretty much only Valve that's carrying the banner.

Besides, as I illustrated above, these leaked photos (should they be real) all but rule out the possibility of a dedicated GPU. The nature of manufacturing suggests they do not and will not use radically different PCBs within the same model. The GPU cannot be in any other location either (the bottom half of the computer is just the battery cells).
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Blizzard has been on since at least the days of Warcraft 2. Oh and EA's starting to make a showing as well.
 
It's funny how some people seem to think Haswell graphics are gonna be some huge leap forward over intel 4000, happens every year. Then we get the reality that some benches show improvements but in use they're just a little better.
 
Here's hoping that apple held off releasing these in order to engineer a way to fit in a custom dedicated GPU. Maybe they worked with nVidia to squeeze a 650m in somehow.

It would be a hard sell to tell 'pros' that this thing could run Final Cut Pro X full HD and Red footage off an iGPU.

It's not exactly a Pro if it doesn't have a dedicated GPU - never understood how they could market the 13" that way up till now either. Especially when the 13" used to be called just a 'macBook', then they added the Pro to it.

Anyway, I'm keen. I have a 2010 13" maxed out Air with Core 2 Duo etc.

I know the move from 1440 x 900 down to 1280 x 800 will be a bit sucky, but I can always switch to native resolution using a resolution switcher, or a scaled resolution if need be. The extra screen real estate is only really useful for coding and photoshop. Surfing is generally nicer at 1280 since most sites aren't designed for wider displays (few responsive exceptions of course).
 
Adidas Addict said:
It's funny how some people seem to think Haswell graphics are gonna be some huge leap forward over intel 4000, happens every year. Then we get the reality that some benches show improvements but in use they're just a little better.
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You're right, we won't know for sure until the benchmarks come out, but the GT3 integrated graphics version of the coming HASWELL processors are said to offer TWICE the performance of Ivy Bridge's HD4000 graphics; a very respectable boost, to be sure! That's in addition to significantly improved battery life.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2622...l_cpu_better_performance_all_day_battery.html

Even if that 100% improvement doesn't materialize under real-world conditions, it would still translate into a pretty worthwhile speed bump.
 
pgiguere1 said:
...yet Thunderbolt is still faster than eSATA
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Irrelevant because virtually all Thunderbolt devices first connect to an external SATA controller (so you're again limited to SATA speeds). Then that SATA controller goes to the Intel Thunderbolt chip. The thunderbolt wire, then a thunderbolt to PCI-E chip. That PCI-E lane is then connected to the Intel Chipset.

The E-SATA device on the other hand, could be linked to the chipset instantly. Result is superior latency.

Not only that Thunderbolt, virtually doubles the cost of the drive itself - along with forces an increase in its size and pushes up its power consumption considerably (up to doubling).

pgiguere1 said:
and combines the PCIe and DisplayPort protocols.
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Which is really irrelevant for external storage drives. HDDs still struggle saturating SATA 1.5.

pgiguere1 said:
Adding 2 eSATA slots in addition of the existing mini DisplayPort? No way Apple could find room for one of those in the rMBP, let alone two of them.
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I've jury-rigged multiple computers (and even the occasional laptop) to do this actually. There was no size increase involved save for an extra wire required. The E-SATA port is managed by the Chipset, which also manages the internal drives.

pgiguere1 said:
I don't understand your hate on Thunderbolt.
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Because you have no comprehension of practicality. Thunderbolt is not a solution to a problem, its a solution looking for a problem. Fact is, thundebolt itself introduces new problems - such as PCI-E Lane congestion, which can affect everything running on your machine.
Its funny most people omit or forget that.

pgiguere1 said:
Like I said Thunderbolt drives will catch on when SSD prices will go down and it'll be viable for average prosumers to buy external SSDs.
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Which is years off. Again - remember that the Thunderbolt controller alone pushes the price up by 60 USD minimum. Then theres the fact that SSDs don't make great long-term storage devices (due to data retention issues) and of course costs. Most people when they think external storage are talking hundreds, often thousands of gigabytes. A 160GB SSD 3 years ago cost twice as much as it does today. Even with prices continuing to reduce - we are talking half a decade, possibly upwards an entire decade - before SSDs truly become viable mass-storage devices.
 
Exhale said:
Irrelevant because virtually all Thunderbolt devices first connect to an external SATA controller (so you're again limited to SATA speeds). Then that SATA controller goes to the Intel Thunderbolt chip. The thunderbolt wire, then a thunderbolt to PCI-E chip. That PCI-E lane is then connected to the Intel Chipset.
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Drives that saturates SATA are raid configurations, so your argument is moot. Also of interest is that SATA itself is moving to being nothing but an interface to PCIe. They are very much aware that SSDs has made the standard old faster than anyone anticipated.
 
swagi said:
Wake me up when Apple kills ALAC and FLAC is not only offered on iTunes but also deployed on several media playing devices.
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Considering that there are many more music players in the wild that play ALAC than FLAC, and that ALAC is used widely for speakers connected to a computer through some network, I think FLAC should just die in shame.

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Jamie0003 said:
It may be because they have more room to work with on the other side of the machine, since there is no longer an optical drive. I'm really looking forward to this machine; how would the $1699 price point convert to GBP? I was hoping it to be £1500 max for the base model.
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The cheapest 15" MBP is $1799 vs £1499. $1699 would most likely be £1399.
 
Stetrain said:
So you expect this to sell for the same price as the $1499 13" Macbook Air which has a 1.8Ghz ultra low voltage CPU, 4GB memory, and a 1440x900 display?
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exactly. It will be AT LEAST $1699, or else it would eat away at higher end Airs.
 
sully54 said:
the Mac mini has had an HDMI port since 2010, back when Steve Jobs was very much alive.

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP585?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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You're not the only one who said this, there were a few before you but you are all wrong, the first Apple computer with HDMI was the first AppleTV released in march 2007, yes, it is a computer, it runs a modified (watered down) version of OS X 10.4.7.
I runs 10.4.something on it, full version, slow like hell but it works.
 
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fullauto said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?pagewanted=3

"Intubated, when he couldn’t talk, he asked for a notepad. He sketched devices to hold an iPad in a hospital bed. He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment. He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit.
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This is a load of sensational crap. When people are intubated, they are heavily sedated. You don't want them trying to breath over the respirator. If someone is trying to communicate while intubated, it's either (a) they're not sedated enough or (b) they shouldn't be intubated in the first place.
 
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Source: http://bbs.weiphone.com/read-htm-tid-5337695.html
 
Is it me or is the bezel much larger on this model compared to the 15 inch?
 
Looked at the others broke the 13-inch RETINA seems still have to give you answers to answers, we no longer need to guess.
1, the first 13-inch RETINA existence Code D1, release date in late October.
2, the same thermal design and 15-inch RETINA, dual fan thermal contact pads only one consciousness means that there is no separate graphics card or CPU integrated graphics.
Interface: the left side of a 15-inch charging port, two lightning interface, a USB interface, a headphone jack. The right side of a USB interface, an HDMI interface, a card reader.
4, the battery is unprecedented strange, magical, and everyone waited publishing know what is magical.
5, SSD goes without saying, of course, the original design is the HDD, later changed, just below the touchpad.
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what a shame the chinese person was smart enough not to include himself in the screen reflection

that would have been hilarious
 
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