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13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Shows Up in Benchmarks

Tuesday July 10, 2012 11:18 am PDT by Eric Slivka

Amid continued rumors that Apple intends to release a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro in the coming months, a Geekbench 2 benchmark submitted late last month as a "MacBookPro10,2" appears to represent the machine in question.

In comparison, the new non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro carries the model identifier "MacBookPro9,2", while the 15-inch non-Retina model is "MacBookPro9,1" and the corresponding Retina model is "MacBookPro10,1".

While the machine name of MacBookPro10,2 on the new entry could be faked, other information included in the Geekbench result is consistent with what would be expected on the new machine. The machine is listed as running a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7-3520M processor, which is offered in the high-end model of the non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro. The machine is also listed as running Build 12A2056 of OS X Mountain Lion, with the four-digit build number suffix frequently being used on Apple's custom operating system builds.

In addition, the motherboard identifier of AFD8A9D944EA4843 previously surfaced as a new machine in early builds of OS X Mountain Lion. While many of the other new motherboard identifiers found in Mountain Lion were accounted for with Apple's MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models released last month, the identity of AFD8A9D944EA4843 has remained unknown. Finally, the machine's score of 7806 is on par with results seen for the non-Retina model running the same processor.

One inconsistency, however, is the listing of just 4 GB of RAM on the Geekbench result. The 2.9 GHz Core i7 processor is paired with 8 GB of RAM even on the non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro, although prototype machines could have different configurations.

Back in May, similar Geekbench benchmarks for what turned out to be the non-Retina 15-inch MacBook Pro, as well as a revamped iMac, surfaced in the results browser. The revamped iMac has, however, yet to see a public launch.

(Thanks, Matthew!)

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Eidorian

27 months ago

Tell me more about the video card.

Rating: 36 Votes

RoelJuun

27 months ago

There are going to be a lot of pissed off people that just bought the 13" MBP ;)

Rating: 28 Votes

eyebex

27 months ago

Enough with the laptops already. How about a new iMac Apple?

Rating: 17 Votes

Krazy Bill

27 months ago

BRING IT ON!!

You're going to think, "Bring it on!" when that squirrely 256gb SSD ain't big enough and you can't go inside to upgrade it. Not to mention the RAM that will be soldered on the motherboard. :(

Getting closer to the end of an era folks... RIP.

Rating: 13 Votes

jav6454

27 months ago

If the 13" brings a discrete gpu, I will be left in quite a debacle. I love the 13", but I don't want Intel's crap graphics.

Rating: 12 Votes

AppleMad98004

27 months ago

Definitely think that will kill the 13-inch MBA, so I don't think that'll happen.

I don't think so given the huge price premium it will have.

Rating: 9 Votes

gpat

27 months ago

There are going to be a lot of pissed off people that just bought the 13" MBP ;)

Did somebody actually buy the 13" Pro at this refresh? It was underwhelming to say the least.
(Written as a 13" Pro owner)

Rating: 9 Votes

Djlild7hina

27 months ago

hm... would be nice if they offered a quad-core option, 16gb ram, and some discrete graphics. that's just wishful thinking though :S

Rating: 8 Votes

8281

27 months ago

I'd be happy if Apple just put the 13" Air screen in the 13" Pro. And I think driving a Retina Display might be asking too much of the HD4000 graphics.

Rating: 6 Votes

Peace

27 months ago

Wasn't there another benchmark for the 15" MBP that had a base 4GB while the shipping product had 8GB ?

It could be Apple is testing these with one stick of RAM in them.

Rating: 5 Votes

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