When the MacBook Pro with Retina Display was introduced in June of 2012, it set a new standard for notebook computers. The MacBook Pro with Retina Display was an all new design, from the inside of the unibody, all the way to the outside.

What's New?

The core new features of the MacBook Pro with Retina Display is the all new flash architecture design, light weight unibody, and of course, the Retina Display. Getting into the basics of what is so impressive about the new MacBook Pro's with Retina Display, starts with the internal parts. The all flash architecture design eliminates the need for traditional hard drives and traditional hard drive slots. With flash architecture, everything becomes much smaller and saves space in the computer, allowing the ability to make the overall notebook much thinner and lighter. Flash architecture's main feature is the fact it is faster than any hard drive that can be put into a notebook computer, allowing very fast read and write speeds.

What's A Retina Display?

The Retina Display is Apple's high resolution display which was only previously used on the iPhone 4 and 4S, iPod touch 4th generation, and the iPad 3rd generation, until June of 2012, when the MacBook Pro with Retina Display was released. With the Retina Display in the MacBook Pro's with Retina Display, is the Pixel Per Inch count (PPI). The PPI of the 15" MacBook Pro with Retina Display is 220, and the 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display is 227. The main reason why the Retina Display in notebook computers was such a huge improvement was because from a normal working distance, the user is unable to identify pixels individually.

Creating a thinner, lighter weight notebook was possible by changing many key hardware parts inside. Starting with removing the CD/DVD Drive, standard hard drives, and switching to all flash architecture design mounted on the logic board, and moving the RAM onto the logic board.

Processing Power and Graphics

The MacBook Pro with Retina Display 13" currently comes standard with a dual-core Intel i5 processor with 8GB of RAM/128GB storage capacity, while the MacBook Pro with Retina Display 15" currently comes standard with a quad-core Intel i7 processor with 8GB of RAM/256GB storage capacity.

Other features of the MacBook Pro with Retina Display include, high end NVIDIA graphics cards (15" models only), Intel HD 4000 graphics (all models), dual thunderbolt ports, 720p FaceTime HD cameras, built in HDMI ports, USB 3.0 support, Bluetooth 4.0 technology, and up to 7 hours of battery life.

The main overview of the MacBook Pro's with Retina Display make these machines industry leading, leaving competitors currently in the dust.