Apple released the the Retina screen new MacBook Pro, this laptop
With a thin design, excellent screen and powerful hardware configuration to get
a great deal of attention, let's discuss its review:
Designs:
Relative
to the previous MacBook Pro (MBP) with Retina screen of the MacBook Pro
(hereinafter referred to as RMBP) biggest feature is the appearance of
"light" and "thin" - weight of 2.02 kg, the thickness of 18
mm. The weight and
thickness of the previous 15-inch MBP 2.56kg and 24.1 mm respectively. The
weight of RMBP even lighter than the 13-inch MBP (2.06 kg) at 17 mm thickness
and 13-inch Air thickest similar, but even weight more than a lot of MacBook
Air. The
overall design is still in recent years, the the MBP Unibody style, style does
not change, after all, as a high-performance notebook computers, to strive to
be thin and light, in order to appearance breakthrough is not an easy task.
Equipped
with a the the premise of 15.4 inches 2880x1800 pixel screen RMBP screen the
reason why the thickness can significantly diminish, one of the reasons is the
unibody through Unibody directly integrated multi-layer screen, and give up the
glass layer covering the outside of the screen, screen less layer of protection, the user
needs to be more attention to self-protection.
And so the body becomes
light another important reason, according to Apple's claims are eliminated
bulky retarded ordinary rotary hard drives and CD-ROM ". Indeed, traditional hard drive and optical
drive are the the laptop weight volume increase of two main reasons. There
is another reason, the battery new RMBP also continues the multi-block tiled
design of the MacBook Air, Mac so battery layout inspired by the iPad. Please note, cut off
the Ethernet interface, Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet interface converter
Fortunately, Apple provides. Will be
canceled the battery queries indicator and Sleep breathing lights.
Apple
also made the compromise of "innovation" for better cooling, RMBP new
two inlets, located in an otherwise simple on both sides of the bottom of the
fuselage, and have slightly exaggerated the three sections of the bar air inlet
Fortunately, the normal posture
using a laptop is to see not two mouths. In
RMBP official promotional video, the two air inlet, a role - they are part of
the whole structure, has played the role of the support beams, allowing the
machine to withstand some of the forces of distorted.
Retina screen:
RMBP screen Retina
Display, which is also the first Apple laptop to see the Retina screen. Piece 15.4-inch
2880x1800 pixel screen with IPS technology, 29% higher contrast than the
ordinary MBP, viewing angle of 178 degrees. The same time, Apple said the
lower this screen glare may also not optional matte screen RMBP.
Pioneered the use of
the Retina display on the iPhone, then the iPad, and then to the Mac, Apple
spoiled our eyes in the step by step. First
see this screen, it is very surprising, especially through Safari browse the
web, view photos with iPhoto, used a few hours and then see other notebook
screen, you will find that you have not used .
This
screen resolution 2880 * 1800, the 15-inch MBP standard resolution of 1440 *
900 direct magnified four times but still display on a 15.4-inch display, so it
is particularly fine. Pixel count reached
5,184,000, can directly display the 5 million-pixel screen view large photo of
a great advantage. In addition, it is
more than 1920 * 1080 HD standard over 2,073,600 3,110,000 pixels, edit HD
video has an ample screen space.
Software Compatibility:
We
have just mentioned RMBP resolution magnified four times, the default in the
original display a (visual) pixel location arranged four pixels (physical), so
if rendered or the original resolution, will be very blurred clear. Therefore,
the light had the Retina screen does not work, just like the original iPhone
4/4S new iPad, there is an urgent need applications optimized for Retina.
Fortunately
listed OS X Mountain Lion, Safari, mail, calendar, address book, as well as iPhoto,
iMovie, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iTunes, Aperture and Final Cut Pro was
optimized (iWork and Aperture, Final Cut Pro need
to be purchased separately).
The most
frequently used in these applications to the number of the Safari web browser. Use
Safari to browse the web, vector display text on the web is very sharp, but
most sites are not optimized for Retina screen images or traditional
low-resolution display is somewhat vague, Apple's official website (except
online store) has been to optimize pictures
and text are the perfect present.
Browsing and
editing photos using Apture RMBP 5,180,000 pixels screen to see clearly the
details of the photo to show easy to modify, great help for the photographer. 1080P video
using Final Cut Pro editing original video in point-to-point on the screen, as
well as most of the space available for editing operations. Third-party
software Retina screen has been optimized, such as an RSS reader application
Reeder (Mac App Store Price $ 30), under the Retina screen reading experience
good.
Hardware configuration and performance testing:
Apple, in order
to reduce the thickness of the body, the magnetic power connector MagSafe
upgrade to generation, a generation turn to the second generation of adapter
(priced at $ 88). The
left side of the fuselage, two Thunderbolt interface (theoretical speed
10Gbps), a USB 3.0 interface (5Gbps) and 3.5 mm headphone jack. The right
side of the fuselage is not familiar with the optical drive, SDXC card slot,
HDMI interface standard for the first time appeared on the MacBook and another
USB 3.0 interface.
The
15 inch RMBP retained the original 15-inch MBP's keyboard area design, the
keyboard can still adjust the backlight, sides, full-size keyboard, speakers,
dual microphones are also hidden in the left speaker.
High
with RMBP divided into low with two CPU starting point is not low, divided into
2.3GHz and 2.6GHz quad-core i7 3720QM processor two, also optional 2.7GHz;
256GB and 512GB flash hard drive is divided into two shall
optional 768GB; due to the new architecture design, RMBP not by the user to
upgrade the memory, the standard 1600MHz DDR3L 8GB has been able to meet the
needs of most users, if necessary, only Apple's official website customization
needs higher 16GB of memory.
Before
the deadline, we found in Apple's official website to provide more
customization options for the 2.3GHz the basic version RMBP Apple, in addition
to the original memory, new higher clocked processor and 512GB, 768GB SSD option.
Apple
with RMBP the new Samsung flash memory hard drive at a very high level in the
SSD. Read speed of 450MB, about
400MB write speed. In
the Mountain Lion RMBP the boot time is about 16 seconds, shut down for about
24 seconds.
In
terms of graphics performance, Apple uses the Kepler architecture Nvidia GT650M
graphics card, Memory 1GB, and integrated Intel Graphics 4000 automatic
switching. GT650M
mainstream mobile graphics card, not an end, I believe is Apple's take care of
the thin and heat make the final choice. Retina
screen support 1680 * 1050 1920 * 1200 display resolution, but they are from
2880 * 1800 rendering from the direct relationship with this card.
We
use GeekBench tested RMBP the evaluation machine 2.6GHz i7 3720QM and 512MB
flash drive version of its 32-bit and 64-bit results are 11929 and 11958
points. In
all MacBook, according to GeekBench site data, its performance after the
optional 2.7GHz processor RMBP and June 11 WWDC 15 inches MBP introduced the
same period, as well as the same 2.6GHz 15-inch MBP configure, while ahead of all other MacBook.
Evaluation Summary:
RMBP
surprisingly excellent screen, is the best laptop screen. Of
course, its processors and flash memory hard to maintain a very high
performance, coupled with the new Mountain Lion operating system, so this
fairly lightweight high performance notebook computer has become one of the
most recommended laptop. If
you can not leave this screen can accept it a higher price, you can consider
starting.
For
gamers, the heat and fan noise issues, though not much impact factors, but many
games do not support such a high resolution, or can not run smoothly at the
highest resolution, so for games to select RMBP not too wise.
Retina
screen MacBook "Pro" as its name suggests, in fact, more suitable to
move often deal with large photos, write an application to handle HD video
professional users. Lighter
MacBook Air, in fact, is more suitable for most ordinary users.