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It has the power of a desktop Mac, and the battery life to carry you through a full workday. The Apple MacBook Pro 15in (2013) earns its title as one of the best high-end desktop replacement laptops you can buy.
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The new PCIe-based Flash storage was quick on booting up, software installations, file operations, and launching apps. This means that for light to moderate gaming, the Iris Pro 5200 is more than adequate. What's notable about the Iris Pro graphics is that the new MacBook Pro 15in is able to almost match last year's MacBook Pro 15in on the Heaven 3D gaming test – hitting 42 frames per second on medium quality, compared to 45 frames per second for the older laptop – even though last year's model had discrete Nvidia GeForce GT 650M graphics. Other systems in this price category like the Toshiba KIRAbook are hours shorter on battery life (it managed 6 hours), and are left behind on the multimedia benchmark tests. This quad-core processor is speedy and energy efficient, and this is reflected in the system's class-leading Photoshop CS6 test time (3 minutes and 14 seconds) and its class-leading battery life (8 hours and 52 minutes). The Intel Core i7-4750HQ processor has Intel Iris Pro 5200 graphics built in, as we’ve already mentioned. The MacBook Pro comes with a standard one year warranty with 90 days of 24/7 technical support. Like the latest crop of MacBook Air models, the new MacBook Pro 15in has a new dual microphone array to help with FaceTime conversations.
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The other additions to OS X 10.9 Mavericks work well, and so does the integrated 720p FaceTime HD camera.
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This flies in the face of systems that come with Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, which don't include Office, unless you count the time-limited trial you get with every new PC. This means that you can use the MacBook Pro 2013 right off the bat with fully functional business, content creation, and entertainment software suites. One of the big news stories from Apple’s October press event was the inclusion of the updated Apple iLife and iWork software suites along with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple's updated operating system for Macs. The system comes with 802.11ac Wi-Fi networking, but you'll have to use a USB to Ethernet adapter or a Thunderbolt-based docking station to get wired Ethernet connectivity. As in the past, the Thunderbolt 2 ports can be used for either Thunderbolt or mini-DisplayPort monitors. Thunderbolt devices are fully compatible with the Thunderbolt 2 port, but it remains to be seen how quickly users and device manufacturers will adopt Thunderbolt 2 when the selection of regular Thunderbolt products is still somewhat limited. Thunderbolt 2 supports double the bandwidth of the Thunderbolt ports which have appeared on Macs since early 2011 (20Gbps versus 10Gbps). On the exterior, the system has HDMI, USB 3.0, and the SD card reader on the right (see the image above), with another USB 3.0 port, MagSafe 2 connector, headset, and two Thunderbolt 2 ports on the left (see below).
The system's 256GB of Flash storage is now PCIe-based instead of SATA-based, which helps speed file transfer and app loading operations. The system's fourth-generation Intel Core i7-4750HQ processor with Intel Iris Pro 5200 graphics is an improvement over last year's model, which had a third-generation Core i7-3615QM processor. About the only nit we have to pick with the Retina Display is that it doesn't have a matt finish option, which disappeared when Apple recently discontinued the previous generation of MacBook Pro 15in models. The MacBook Pro supports up to 4,096 x 2,160 resolution on an external display via HDMI. The 2,880 x 1,800 display on the MacBook Pro 2013 is physically larger than the Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus (15.4in plays 13.3in respectively), which explains the MacBook's larger overall dimensions.