The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. 
Apple dropped a slew of new Macs in San Jose on Tuesday. While the spotlight for the last half of the event was on the iPad, the first half was all Mac, with every line but the Mac Pro getting something new.
The rumored 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display showed up in all its high-end-display glory. Starting at $1,700, the smaller Retina-enabled MacBook Pro is .75 inches thick and weights in at 3.57 pounds. That’s .75 pounds lighter and .2 inches thinner than the regular 13-inch MacBook Pro.
The innards are powered by i5 and i7 processors and an Intel HD Graphics 4000 integrated graphics processor to push the 4 million pixels on the Retina display.
Apple boasts that the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display’s battery will last for seven hours of wireless web browsing and 30 days standby. To achieve this, instead of including one long battery, the new notebook has two batteries using asymmetric lithium ion battery technology. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display is available today.
Like the rest of the new Macs announced, the 13-inch Macbook Pro with Retina Display ships sans optical drive. Say goodbye to ripping your CDs and DVDs. Rip. Mix. Burn. is dead.
The iMac received a dramatic slim-down and update. Starting at $1,300, the machine is 5 millimeters thick at the bezel. Apple stated that reflections are reduced by 75 percent because the LCD display sits right up against the glass. Because of the thinness of the display, traditional welding wouldn’t work. Instead, Apple used friction-stir welding, a process that relies on friction-generated heat and pressure to mix the molecules of two aluminum pieces.
The iMac does get thicker as you move away from the center (you have to put those computer parts somewhere). The base level $1,300 21.5-inch iMac comes with a 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor. The 27-inch iMac can be upgraded during purchase to a quad-core i7 processor up to 3.4GHz. The iMac ships in November.
Finally, the little Mac mini got some stage time. The tiniest Mac received a processor upgrade starting at the $600 base quad-core 2.5GHz i5 processor with a 2.6GHz quad-core i7 available for upgrade during purchase. An Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics card is standard inside the Mac mini line. The regular Mac minis are available with a 1TB drive while the Mac mini server gets 2TB of storage.
The Mac mini is available today.
Both the Mac mini and the new iMac use Apple’s Fusion Drive technology. Like hybrid drives currently on the market from companies like Seagate, the Fusion Drive combines flash and hard-drive storage. The combination gives users quick access to frequently used files and applications cached in flash storage, while the hard drive gives users more storage than a stand-alone flash drive would.
All the new computers get Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ports, with only the Mac mini keeping a single Firewire 800 port. One glaring omission from the event was any mention of the long-in-the-tooth Mac Pro. The computer got a tiny speed bump in June 2012, but it still lacks a Thunderbolt port.
Maybe Apple is making it thinner.
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/apple-updates-mac-line-except-for-mac-pro/
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