MacBook Pros just went Retina at WWDC.

[onehandle]

Last edited Mon Jun 11, 2012, 03:19 PM - Edit history (3)

Base model: 2880x1800 15.4 Retina Display, USB 3, HDMI out, 2 Thunderbolt outs (adapters for Firewire coming), 2.3GHz quad-core i7, 8GB of RAM, GeForce Gt 650M with 1GB of VRAM, 256GB flash storage.

They got rid of the optical drive. Good riddance. Now MBPs are 25% thinner.

My MBP will be three this year. Time for an upgrade.

Sadly, although I doubt Apple will admit it today, the 17-inch model may be history.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/#macbookpro

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. 8 gigs of ram? Sweet

256 of flash? Not so sweet. I actively use 180 gigs. I don't like edging up to the limit like that.

Mountain Lion upgrade for $20? SuperSweet.
Siri for iPad? Me likey.

[onehandle]

2. 256 is the base. Also comes in 512 and 768. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. thanks. That sounds better.

[gateley]

6. Plus Siri has "learned" a lot more stuff. I'm in the middle of watching the keynote

(just now getting to iOS).

The costs of the new Air and PowerBook are just about $100 more than they were.

Pretty amazing stuff.

I sure miss Jobs doing the presentation, though.

[Auggie]

4. It's not cheap: starts at $2,199.00

But then, inspired engineering costs money.

[onehandle]

5. They officially discontinued the 17-inch, which was the 'top of the line' model.

The pricing of the 15-inch Retina display is pretty much the same as the former top of the line.

I've had two 17-inch PowerBooks and two 17-inch MacBook Pros.

Pretty sure I can live with the smaller screen.