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This is hands down the best macbook pro ever released. I had the 15 inch version from last year, which I loved, but it was stolen. I then decided to go down to the 13 inch version to save a little money. The 2012 13 version was great but the graphics capabilities paled in comparison to the 15. Also, Apple didn't include enough storage in the baseline model (128gb), which at the time was 1499. I highly recommend that anyone looking to buy a new Retina pro upgrade to the midline version inside of the 1299 one because the extra ram and storage make all the difference. I haven't yet had the opportunity to test the graphics it yet with any games, but I can say it streams 4K video flawlessly.
In response to everyone's comments, having had both the old version and the new version, I am getting at least 40% more battery time on the new version updated to Mavericks, and probably closer to 60% more. For example, my battery had 40% remaining after at least 7 hours of document editing and three days stand by time. It's hard to say how much is due to new software versus new hardware, but I was really impressed. As far as screen resolution, you can use a third party app to show the display in native resolution, but I don't because then all the icons and text appear too small. I'm not a gamer, so don't have any games I can test it out with, but if anyone can recommend a free graphics test, I will happy test it out and post my findings. I did see on 9to5mac that they were claiming a 50% improvement in FPS.
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