Apple has knocked £200 off the price of its super-skinny 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, while also lowering the price of the 13-inch MacBook Air and introducing some beefier components.
The 13-inch Pro with Retina display now starts at £1,249 -- a significant reduction from £1,449, which was its wholly unpalatable original price. That gets you 128GB of flash storage a 2.5GHz dual-core Core i5 processor, plus 8GB of RAM.
The eye-bleeding retina display Macs have been given new processors in places, too. A brand new skew of the 13-inch model sees a 2.6GHz chip thrown into the mix, with a starting price of £1,449.
The basic 15-inch retina MacBook Pro meanwhile gets a 2.4GHz quad-core processor, while the top-of-the-line 15-inch laptop now boasts a 2.7GHz quad-core chip, and a hearty 16GB of RAM. Those heavy-lifting machines start at £1,799 and £2,299 respectively.
Budget Air-line
Apple's also tweaked the price of its priciest MacBook Air model. The 13-inch Air with 256GB of flash storage now costs £1,199, down £50 from £1,249.
Apple's retina-display MacBook Pro computers offer amazingly high-resolution displays and a gorgeous slender design, but cost an astonishing amount. Tim Cook said yesterday that when the company tried to make a cheaper Mac, it ended up making the iPad. That's great, Tim, but how about an actual cheaper Mac, eh?
Will you buy a 13-inch retina MacBook Pro at the cheaper price? Or is it still way too costly to consider? Let me know in the comments, or on our Facebook wall.
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anonymous 13 February, 2013 16:58
To be fair, I think this is reasonable. Its 999 for base line macbook pro so for an extra 250 quid you get a pimped out retina display and skinny body...plus flash. It is worth it!
anonymous 13 February, 2013 17:39
No options to upgrade so no chance I will be swapping my 13' Macbook Pro. It may be almost 3 years old, but with 2 x 256GB SSDs (superdrive is now external) and 8GB of ram I am happy with it for now. Until they release something I can do my own upgrades to I doubt I will buy a brand new Macbook Pro again.
anonymous 13 February, 2013 21:23
Clearly a retina MacBook air is coming
anonymous 14 February, 2013 15:13
anonymous 13 February, 2013 17:39
Agree with anon. My biggest issue with this that you are unable to upgrade ram and your hd. This would definitely become an issue later on. I will prob look elsewhere also if they do not bring back this.
anonymous 17 February, 2013 18:30
I'm desperate for a new MBP with my Intel Core Duo model really showing its age, but I also agree with the anon users above. I'd love Apple to go back to designing laptops with some upgradeable parts; in the meantime I'll be looking at hackintosh options.