Apple 13in MacBook Pro with Retina display (2.8GHz, 512GB, mid-2014)

摘要

Besides the 15in models, Apple has also updated its 13in MacBook Pro with Retina display, substituting a slightly faster Intel Core i5 chip, and dropping its price by £50. When Apple last revised the 13in MacBook Pro in the autumn of 2013 with a Haswell-generation Intel CPU, it offered a choice of 2.4- or 2.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processors. Now, we find the same choice of chips, but bumped up by 0.2GHz -to 2.6- and 2.8GHz respectively for the 'good' and 'best' models. There's also a configure-to-order (CTO) version with Intel Core i7 processor, albeit still with two rather than four cores, running at a baseline clock frequency of 3GHz. Here we test the top-of-the-range model, with a 2.8GHz Core i5 processor, the same 512GB solid-state flash drive as before and the newly standardised 8GB of memory. This chip can also overclock itself automatically when required with Intel's Turbo Boost, up to 3.3GHZ.