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#13 INCH EARLY 2011 MACBOOK PRO BATTERY PORTABLE#
If you want a fully-featured, portable MacBook, then the 13 incher is the way to go, else you can't really go wrong with the 15 incher.įind latest and upcoming tech gadgets online on Tech2 Gadgets. Mind you, it’s still quite a heavy little fellow. The few things it has going for it over its elder siblings is the better battery life and the fact that it’s more portable. Considering a little more money can fetch your the 15-inch model that’s also a lot more powerful, the 13-inch feels quite expensive. The Late 2011 model replaces the earlier MacBook Pro 13-inch for the same price of Rs.84,900, while the ‘cheaper’ one with a 2.4GHz Core i5 CPU retails for Rs.69,900. While the battery life will deplete over time, one way to ensure a longer lifespan is to complete entire charge and discharge cycles.
Brightness was set to 75 percent, Wi-Fi was off and we had a pair of headphones plugged into the notebook at 70 percent volume.
#13 INCH EARLY 2011 MACBOOK PRO BATTERY 720P#
This consisted of a 720p MP4 movie, which we played in a loop, till it finally died. The 13-inch MacBook Pro delivered an amazing 7 hours of battery life in our video drain test. This just so happens to have a profound effect on the battery life. Despite it lacking a dedicated GPU, it could easily handle high bit-rate HD video files without breaking a sweat. The screen can get a bit reflective under ambient light but the brightness levels make up for that shortcoming. Under normal usage though, the Pro runs quite as a mouse and is just the perfect size for your lap. Under stress, the notebook does tend to get warm and since this has been made of aluminium entirely, it’s more noticeable. We see the same performance difference in XBench, as well, where the 15-inch scored 8631 points. The OpenGL test is nothing to shout about, as there’s really no comparison between the Intel HD graphics and dedicated AMD GPU. This difference can clearly be seen in Cinebench R11.5, where the MacBook Pro scored 4.4pts. While the higher clock speed may seem like it’s faster than the 15-inch, remember that the 15 incher had a quad-core CPU, which the 13 incher only has a dual-core. Compared to the Early 2011 model of the bigger MacBook Pro 15-inch, the small guy still lags behind, mostly because of the slower processor and lack of a dedicated graphics card. In terms of performance, it manages to put on a good show, but is nowhere as good as its bigger brothers. For refresh though, you can barely call it that, since hardly anything has changed, since the ‘Early 2011’ model. Overall, it feels well rounded, although we do miss a dedicated graphics card. OS X Lion runs buttery smoothly and the new gesture motions are quite simply fun. The brightness levels are more than adequate and the viewing angles are very good, so your friends will enjoy watching moves with you. The 13-inch screen, however gets a decently sharp resolution of 1280 x 800 and the LED backlighting ensures even brightness throughout.
We wished Apple would have given you the option to add a discrete graphics card as well. Sadly, this is where the differences end as everything else is identical to the Early 2011 models. The Late 2011 model also comes with a larger capacity hard drive, as default 750GB as opposed to 500GB from before. Due to the slightly higher clock speed, the Turbo frequency has gone up to 3.5GHz. It’s actually the Core i7-2640M, a dual-core processor with four threads built on the same 32nm fabrication process. They sent us their high-end 13-inch Pro, which gets a processor bump from a 2.7GHZ Core i7 to a 2.8GHz Core i7. Like tradition, all new refreshed Apple products come with slight improvements, but for the exact same price as the earlier one. Overall, the finish and build is just what we’ve come to expect from Apple, nothing more, nothing less. Just like the others, the battery is internal, so it’s not user replaceable. The backlit keys are incredibly comfortable and so is the giant glass trackpad that begs to be stroked. The only thing that’s shaved off is the speaker vents from the sides, which are now underneath the keyboard. Although it’s a smaller-sized notebook, the 13-inch Pro receives the same sized keyboard and trackpad as its bigger brothers.
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