Macbook Pro Review

Apple has long been known for quality products that sometimes stretch what a consumer considers a fair price. This fact continues with Apples line of premium notebook computers, the MacBook Pro. Although many people feel that Apple overcharges for their notebooks, they must understand that it is hand built and made for power users. This is not a budget notebook. The Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display has truly been atop of the competition for quite some time now. This is thanks to Mac’s easy to use interface, sleek design and laptop durability and speed. Though other laptops give the MacBook Pro a run for its money, there is no denying that the MacBook Pro is the best laptop on the market today and I personally feel that this computer lives up to its premium price tag, so if you can afford it, this is one of the best notebooks that money can buy. Now it is fairly obvious that the average PC notebook will be substantially cheaper than the MacBook, but what most people do not understand is that unlike most companies, Apple does not have budget versions of their products, so in one way they are more expensive because there range is smaller and caters towards the higher end market, but in another way they are actually cheaper than a PC equivalent with the exact same specs. This is due in part to the intangibles that apple puts in to its notebooks. I will show why this is true in my review of the MacBook Pro. I will be judging the MacBook based on three categories, such as design, connectivity, and finally performance, but first I want to discuss what powers this model and its feature set. The MacBook Pro line is divided into two categories, which are separated by components, screen size and price. The cheapest versions are the 13inch models and they have slower cpu’s and are less powerful overall then the 15inch models. The MacBook Pro model I will be reviewing in more depth will be the mid-range 15inch, because it is generally the version that people