Rumored 13-inch Retina Display MacBook Pro reappears online
Rumored 13-inch Retina Display MacBook Pro reappears online
Here's a trick: If you're into betting and you have some non-tech-savvy friends, see if you can get one of them to go into a (friendly?) wager over whether Apple will ultimately end up releasing a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina Display.
You, of course, would pick the side that favors such an occurrence, because you're already fairly familiar with the rumors that a smaller-form-factor Retina Display MacBook Pro is rumored to hit stores in September of this year.
At least, that's the buzz that was heading around the Web toward the end of July, prompted by an analyst's projection and some benchmark sites' discoveries that an unknown configuration of Macbook was being put through its paces â€" one whose specifications and naming scheme line up fit the profile of what could be a 13-inch "RDMBP."
Well, guess what? A new set of benchmarks has been uncovered for what many believe is this 13-inch mystery device â€" the "MacBookPro10,2" â€" and the listed specifications for the laptop either remain similar to, or are upgraded from, the specifications seen in July.
Updating the unknown
According to MacRumors, the mystery MacBook has popped up again in the database of results for the benchmarking site Geekbench.
This second iteration â€" the "MacBookPro10,2" that many believe is the smaller iteration of the 15-inch Retina Display MacBookPro as a result of its name alone â€" achieves nearly the same Geekbench score as the first mystery device.
In fact, there are only two major differences between this second mystery MacBook and the first: The memory's been bumped up from four gigabytes to eight and the new MacBook runs an 12A2066 built of OS X 18.8.1 â€" a new version of the OS that Apple plans to, but has yet to, release to developers.
Other than that, the rumored new 13-inch MacBook Pro will run an Intel Core i7-3520M processor clocked at 2.9 GHz.
As reported by AppleInsider, that gives the system a bit lower of an overall Geekbench score than the 2.3 GHz, Intel Core i7-3615QM-sporting 15-inch Retina Display MacBook Pro, but it appears to be a speedier system than the 13-inch MacBook Pros released in February of last year.
Via MacRumors, AppleInsider
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