The new MacBook Pros offer the same unibody construction, backlit LED screen, lighted keyboard, multi-touch glass trackpad, and FaceTime HD Web cam as the previous models, but push ahead with updated internal architecture for improved performance. While this review covers only the non-Retina lineup of 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros, itвЂ™s inevitable that some of that Retina sheen has rubbed off on the regular models.

Now, itвЂ™s the Retina display model that caters to the creative crowd, the MacBook Pro that covers the consumer mid-market that places a premium on traditional laptop features, and the Air, which caters to a swiftly expanding group that values a combination of portability and increasingly speedy performance. With the introduction of the Retina MacBook Pro, Apple has re-created its consumer laptop category-or rather restored the one that it had removed with the demise of the mid-market MacBook in 2011. This crowd appreciated the MacBook AirвЂ™s friendly specs for traveling light (even if it was just from the bus stop to the office or class). This class of users, though not creative in the strict definition of вЂњcreative pro,вЂќ still requires substantial computing power, though not necessarily a super high-resolution display-or the price tag that goes with it.ДЄpple had developed three laptop models for three distinct sets of buyers: The MacBook was a consumer model for general users the MacBook Pro catered to a higher-end crowd of creative professionals and the MacBook Air was there for a smaller group for whom portability outpaced all other traditional notebook appurtenances like an optical drive, spinning hard disk, and multiple connection choices. To grasp the regular MacBook ProвЂ™s still-significant appeal is to consider the specific needs of AppleвЂ™s mid-market target audience of non-visually oriented professionals. These new вЂњregularвЂќ models offer a speed boost over their late-2011 predecessors thanks to brand new processors and video components, and feature updated technology, including USB 3. In addition to the Retina MacBook Pro-the justifiable new standard against which AppleвЂ™s other laptops (indeed all laptops) will now be judged-the company has also updated a pair of 13-inch and a pair of 15-inch non-Retina MacBook Pros. With all the exhilaration surrounding the debut of AppleвЂ™s pioneering Retina MacBook Pros, itвЂ™s easy to overlook that the company also upgraded the rest of its pro laptop lineup.

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