Cost to have Apple replace the 77.5 Watt-hour battery out of warranty is $129.

Like the iPad and iPhone, it does not have an easily replaceable battery.

The MacBook Pro has an 18-bit glossy display (not the 24 bits you might expect). The new models are rated at 7 hours of battery power, and they use Bluetooth 4.0 along with 802.11n WiFi for wireless connectivity. The 15″ MBP design puts all the ports (and a battery indicator) on the left side, leaving the right side for the SATA SuperDrive. The Intel GPU uses 384 MB of system memory, while the Radeon GPU has its own dedicated video memory (512 MB on the 2.3 GHz model, 1 GB on the 2.6 GHz one). As before, it automatically switches between GPUs on the fly. This is one of the first Macs to use Intel HD 4000 Graphics, and on the 15″ MacBook Pro it’s coupled with Nvidia GeForce GT 650M graphics. The base 15″ model now runs a 2.3 GHz quad-core Core i7 processor (with Turbo Boost to 3.3 GHz) and has 4 GB of system memory and a 500 GB hard drive with a $1,799 price tag, while the “better” version increases speed to 2.6 GHz (3.6 GHz with Turbo Boost), double system memory to 8 GB, and includes a 750 GB hard drive.Īpple offers a number of build-to-order options: Upgrade system memory from 4 GB to 8 GB for $100 on the base model, choose a higher capacity or faster hard drive or an SSD, get a hi-res 1680 x 1050 display, and boost the 2.6 GHz model with a 2.7 GHz quad-core i7 for $250 more. The 2012 MacBook Pro adopts Intel’s newest, more efficient Ivy Bridge processor technology, which incorporates Intel HD Graphics 4000 (up to 60% faster, according to Apple) in the CPU. This is the last 15″ MacBook Pro model to ship without a Retina Display. The new HD camera also supports today’s widescreen displays, and the native screen resolution of 1440 x 900 is the same as before.

There’s also an improved webcam, the 720p FaceTime HD camera with three times the resolution of previous MacBook FaceTime cameras.

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