Apple Quietly Discontinues 15
Apple hardly raised a fuss yesterday when it, without making much noise, discontinued the legacy, non-Retina 15-inch MacBook Pro, at the same time that it refreshed its MacBook Pros with Retina Display, adding Haswell processors and other key upgrades. The 13-inch legacy MacBook Pro without Retina Display remains on Apple's notebook roster as the only remaining laptop that still comes with an optical drive and a standard spinning hard disk.
As Apple had slashed prices on its Retina MacBook Pros by $200 across the board, economics may be the most possible reason why the company decided not to offer legacy versions of the 15-inch MacBook Pro anymore. The new versions of Apple's 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Retina Display now come with starting price tags of $1,299 and $1,999 respectively, while the 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro costs just $100 less than the refreshed 13-inch Retina notebook, at $1,199. That's not much money to be saved by choosing a laptop that doesn't come with one of Apple's hallmark specifications.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display is notable for coming with an Intel Iris integrated GPU to facilitate its Retina support, as well as a new Intel Haswell processor for added battery life and processing power. No new configurable options were added, as users still have a maximum 1 TB of hard drive space or 512 GB solid-state drive space, 8 GB RAM and 2.9 GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 processing to deck their new devices out with. Both new Retina MacBook Pros ship with OS X Mavericks, and the 13-incher, in specific, is much slimmer than the previous year's iteration, measuring just 0.71 inches thick.
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