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Apple brings Retina display to the 13-inch MacBook Pro

23.10.2012
Apple's high-resolution Retina display now comes in another portable configuration, as the company unveiled a 13-inch with Retina display on Tuesday that complements the 15-inch model introduced over the summer.

The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro sports a display with a resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels, a huge 4-times increase over the 1280 by 800 resolution on the released in June. The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro display has a total of 4,096,000 pixels, which Apple says is nearly twice the number of pixels in a HDTV.

The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro's screen is an in-plane switching panel, which allows for a wide viewing angle. Apple says the display has a 29 percent higher contrast ratio when compared to the previous model, as well as 75 percent glare reduction.

The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display (right) joins the 15-inch Retina display model in Apple's portable lineup.

Like the that debuted four months ago , the new 13-inch Retina laptop has two Thunderbolt ports. The Thunderbolt ports and two USB 3.0 ports are the main avenues of connectivity, as the new laptop no longer has the ethernet and FireWire 800 ports found on the standard 13-inch MacBook Pro model. The new laptop also has no optical drive, but it does have an SDXC card slot.

The 13-inch Retina Macbook Pro is 0.75 inches thin; according to Apple, that's 20 percent thinner than the regular 13-inch MacBook Pro. The new laptop weighs 3.5 pounds, which is a pound lighter.