15-inch Retina MacBook Pro Mid-2014 Review

Retina MacBook Pro

Apple recently refreshed the Retina MacBook Pro lineup with modest enhancements. The latest high-resolution MacBook Pro’s include Intel’s latest processors, boosting the CPU speed by a mere 0.2 GHz and 15 inch model with 256GB SSD now comes with standard 16GB RAM. I bought the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro with 512GB SSD, 2.5GHz i7 quad-core processor and 16GB RAM on August 15th, … Read More

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Retina MacBook Pro Shipment Time Improves to Less Than a Week

Retina MacBook Pro AAPL

Early last week, Apple Inc. (AAPL) shipment estimate for the Retina MacBook Pro improved to 1-2 weeks. On Thursday, the estimate continued to show improvement, moving up to less than a week, with AAPL’s online store estimating that the 2.3 Ghz and 2.6 Ghz configurations of Retina MacBook Pro will be shipping within 5-7 days. As noted by AppleInsider, alongside the … Read More

Apple Using SSDs with Different Speeds on New Macbook Air

A few months ago, reports indicated that Apple may be using different SSDs provided by both Toshiba and Samsung in their new Macbook Air models. Samsung SSDs read and write speeds are significantly faster than the Toshiba SSDs.  Users have noticed this change by taking apart particular units that appear to be same physically but run different programs at varying … Read More