If you really need hard-wired Ethernet, a USB (or Thunderbolt) adapter is sold separately. We're in an age where wireless is clearly the way to go - and with upgraded 802.11ac wireless built-in, you're only a compatible router away from greatness. The Air lacks the extra Thunderbolt port and HDMI.Ī physical Ethernet port is still an unfortunate and intentional omission. One of the big advantages to the Retina Pro over the 13-inch MacBook Air is its plethora of ports: two USB 3.0, two faster-throughput Thunderbolt 2 ports, an SDXC card slot, and even HDMI. The 227 pixels per square inch amount to, if nothing else, a lot easier-on-the-eye reading clarity. Retina-level resolution in a laptop isn't an essential difference-maker, but it's absolutely an upgrade, if a subtle one at times, from whatever you may have been using otherwise. Windows 8 laptops can do the same: tile-based Windows apps scale nicely to higher-res displays, and using 'desktop' mode gives you extra space. You can, however, adjust to make for more desktop space (and smaller icons and text) in system settings. Apple's operating system and all of its current apps take advantage of the Retina Display to optimize text and graphics, usually to the tune of making everything crisper and better-detailed versus expanding screen real estate. The improved color quality and finer detail are worth the upgrade for photo-editing or any sort of graphics work. And the Retina Display, the same as last year's, looks just as good. The point is, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display matches the territory in terms of price. Both of those systems are thinner, lighter laptops, but also run less powerful ultrabook-optimized Core i5 processors.īut enough of the nit-picking. The Kirabook comes with twice the RAM and flash storage (8GB, 256GB) versus the Retina MacBook Pro for the same price the Ativ Book 9 Plus comes with the same 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD for $100 more.

Both of those laptops start at $1,299 and $1,399, respectively.

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