Apple has upped the ante for laptops with its new MacBook Pro with retina display - the flagship computer that came out of this week’s announcements of software and hardware upgrades at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
If you thought the screen on your HDTV was sharp -- consider the new Retina display on this 15-inch screen has 5.1 million more pixels, three million more than your HDTV. After this, everything else is liable to look a little blurry on close inspection. Apple has also packed the power of a desktop into a super slim case -- measuring a mere 1.8 centimetres in depth, just over the MacBook Air which is 0.68 at its thickest point. The MacBook Pro with retina display, with the retina display only available in the 15-inch model, weighs in at a tad over two kilograms.
Its flash storage starts at 256 GB and can be upgraded to 768 GB, although that will set you back another $500 on the 2.6GHz MacBook Pro, pushing the price on that one to top $3,000. The 2.3 GHz MacBook Pro with retina display starts at $2,230 in Canada. www.apple.com/ca.
MacBook Air, Apple, from $1,029
The MacBook Air lineup got a boost with the new Intel Core processors, faster graphics and flash storage that Apple promises is up to twice as fast as the earlier MacBook Airs. The 11-inch MacBook Air, with a
1.7 GHz processor and 4GB of memory starts at $1,029 Cdn with 64GB of
flash storage. Bump that up to 128 GB for $1,129. The 13-inch
version has a 1.8 GHz processor, with 4GB of memory and 128GB flash storage starting at $1,229 and 256 GB at $1,529. www.apple.com/ca.
Gifts for Dad
Xbox 360 320GB Star Wars Kinect Bundle, $400
From the R2-D2 and C-3PO-inspired controller and console to the special edition white Kinect sensor, this Xbox will let dad revisit his Jedi youth.
House of Marley Bag of Rhythm Portable Audio System, $350
Get this in time for your Father’s Day beach barbecue and you’re liable to draw a crowd. This isn’t your regular conservative and retiring black or white iPhone/iPod/iPad speaker dock. Instead packed into a canvas bag, measuring 11 by 26 by 10.3 inches and weighing a hefty 15 pounds, this has a fancy wooden panel with speaker grills on the top. It takes six D-cell batteries to power all this sound.
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