How do you choose a 13-inch Apple MacBook?

If you are considering buying a 13-inch laptop, the Apple MacBook product line is no doubt a product that cannot be overlooked. Apple has a total of three 13-inch MacBook products, including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook Pro with Retina display, which is the best choice, let's compare. But go ahead and play through: maybe you should wait.

Last week, I experienced the role of a local Apple store sales expert, and I found that the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air were sold better than the other models. They all belong to compact, lightweight and powerful laptops and are reasonably priced.

13-inch MacBook Air

The first is the MacBook air,13-inch model priced at USD 1199 (about RMB 7360) and has a fairly mature configuration, including dual core Intel Core™ i5 processors at 1.8 GHz, 4GB memory and 128GB SSD solid-state drives, The overall performance is still very good. Of course, if the sense of hard disk space is not enough, can also pay 200 U.S. dollars (about 1227 yuan) to upgrade to 256GB, memory also supports the maximum customization to 8GB.

The Macbook air is a great portable notebook with a weight of about 1.08 kg and a slim fuselage, and the iconic one-piece metal fuselage is still imitated by many notebook manufacturers. It also has two USB 3.0 connectors and a Thunderbolt interface, using the appropriate extension connectors, to achieve high-speed storage, Gigabit Ethernet cards and external monitors, such as scalability.

13-inch MacBook Pro

The MacBook Pro with a 13-inch screen is a classic model that was released earlier than air and is believed to be the first Apple computer for many people. It is more like a traditional laptop for office and entertainment, with 500GB of large hard disk space (SSD solid-state drives are expensive to match) and DVD burner drives for a rainy year. It also has a 2.5GHz clock processor, and can be equipped with faster processors and larger memory, the high model price of 1499 U.S. dollars (about 9201 yuan).

The disadvantages of a 13-inch MacBook Pro include a thicker fuselage and a weight of around 2 kilograms, making it less portable than the MacBook Air. But it has a more comprehensive interface, including specialized Ethernet, FireWire 800, Thunderbolt interface and two USB 3.0 interfaces, and has a better scalability.

13-inch Retina Retina screen MacBook Pro

The last is a MacBook Pro with a 13-inch retina Retina screen, the biggest innovation of the Apple MacBook product line in recent years, with its stunning 2560*1600 pixel resolution, which brings rich colors and fantastic details. It also uses a more lightweight fuselage design, and uses the Advanced SSD solid-state drive, the price is 1499 US dollars (about 9201 yuan), you can also choose to upgrade the hard disk storage and other parts.

The 13-inch Retina Retina screen MacBook Pro can be said to be a very balanced choice, not only with a high standard screen, but also with a more portable fuselage and mainstream performance, and as SSD solid-state drives can be upgraded to 768 GB, storage space is no longer a problem, but a higher price.

The three 13-inch MacBook has the same disadvantage of integrating the intel® Graphics 4000 graphics card, which is generally graphics-performance. In addition, their hardware core platforms are based on the Intel Ivy Bridge architecture and are not currently the most advanced platform.

In fact, the Intel Haswell processor has already started shipping, and Apple is about to convene the Global Developers Conference next month (WWDC 2013), a time when it is very delicate. Haswell has a higher performance and low-power, integrated graphics performance also significantly improved, even if Apple does not launch a new design of the MacBook products, the processor platform upgrades are also within reach, so the temporary cash may not be a more rational choice.