Customer Ratings & Reviews

Nice computer for what I paid. Would like to see the operating software optimized a little better with less crashes.

I'm new at Macs I'm still in the learning process. Thus far I like it.

Another great apple product. Purchased on Black Friday/Thursday

My Apple MacBook Pro is such a great electronic device to have. It's perfect for college studies.

Daughter fell in love with it the moment she turned it on

Love my purchase. Great customer service. Friendly staff

good for everyday use, not for school work though,

This laptop is very reliable and everybody in my house loves it.. Great laptop...

I am a new user to the MAC so still fumbling around with the different features.

I thought long and hard about making this purchase and I'm glad I finally did.

Bought for school and performes we'll had Dell in the past and is better.

Love my macbook pro. Works perfectly and definitely a good buy

Great product for any day use. I would recommend this product.

The Retina MacBook Pro looks nice, but is still pretty hefty.

I'm a PC person converting to Mac. So far, worth the switch!

This is my first real experience with a Mac, and I can say after a day of using it, I love it! I bought a Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop for $600 or so in 2010 that I've used regularly up to now. Not a horrible laptop, but as my budget was limited, I couldn't invest in anti-virus software, which likely led to a slower performance in recent years. The battery barely lasted longer than two hours, and after using it nonstop for one hour, it became VERY slow and near-unresponsive, highly frustrating if I was in the middle of writing a paper. This, on the other hand, is amazing. Long battery life and fast, swift responses to inputs on the keyboard and such are a wonderful plus. Everything works seamlessly, and it's a notch lighter than my previous laptop. I can just about get through a whole day on one charge. The resolution is also amazing, as I'd expect with this being the Retina display. It also fires up really quickly after being put to sleep, and puts you right back in the middle of what you were doing in literally a second. So much faster than what I've become accustomed to. Having grown up on Windows products, I knew OS X would be a new experience and a whole new learning curve, but it wasn't too hard for me to get accustomed to everything. Having used an iOS device since Christmas in 2008, I've been familiar with the interface, so the gestures on the touch pad were, I discovered, virtually the same, save for at least two-finger scrolling amongst maybe a few others. You get the benefit of either pressing the pad to 'click' on something or simply tapping on it to click on something, depending on your preference. I was excited when I bought this to learn that it came with a built-in word processing app, Pages. Having used it, I'm not so sure if it's as beneficial as Word is. Oh sure, it makes your documents look great, no denying that, but for example, the process of figuring out synonyms for a word isn't exactly easily accessible, leaving you to poke around the Internet instead for other word alternatives. Fortunately if you have an available download of Microsoft Office (my MS Office Student package comes with two available installations), it'll work just as fine. It's a slight change abandoning right-click options and instead having to go to the Edit tab at the top of the screen for the Cut/Copy/Paste and other options, but I wouldn't consider it a deal-breaker. Sure, a tad more work, but still manageable. A spell-checking system is built-in as well when you're typing, at least on Safari, which I think is pretty convenient. It's unfortunate that it doesn't come with a CD/DVD drive (unless you want to shell out $80 for the optical drive attachment). Really though, it depends on what you need it for. I still have my old laptop that came with a built-in optical drive, so if something comes up that I need it for, I'll just use that. If it saves me $80, I'm not complaining. What it really boils down to is what you plan on doing with it. If you plan on mainly using it for school or some miscellaneous projects, this model will likely serve your purposes. More ambitious tasks will probably equal out to a need for more memory and flash storage, thus, the more expensive models. If your heart is set on a CD/DVD drive and such, by all means go for the cheaper non-Retina model or pay the $80 for the attachment. Aside from that, and despite very few, very minor hiccups in speed and tasks, this has dealt with everything I've thrown at it. No doubt this will last me a couple years.

great user friendly. all apple products used at home

This was a fantastic buy. I did allot of research and bought a windows 8 laptop with touch screen 8 months ago for $800 which at the time I thought was a great deal until the touch screen stopped working 4 months after purchase and windows 8 was just to much of a headache. This is my first mac so I am not a mac geek who buys nothing but apple products. I use to avoid Macs because of the price, but this was well worth the few extra dollars. It's display is amazing. It's very light weight and portable. I was most impressed with the battery life with such a great display and backlit keyboard. It really is a great machine and would recommend it over the Mac book Air, especially if you can find it like I did for $1100 which is close to the mac book airs price point. And to respond to previous reviews 4GB of RAM is plenty. Unless you enjoy playing world of war craft while watching YouTube videos on "becoming a better magician", in that case you may need to upgrade to 8GB.

It had everything I needed for my work and school.

I LOVE APPLE!~ Ok honestly I bought my macbook pro retina display custom configured and picked up from Brea Mall California Apple store. It is the same the model 13 inch except I got the i7 2.8, 16GB Ram, and 128 Flash/SSD. I wanted to review this on apple's website but reviews didn't exist. so thats why I am here spreading my reviews about my new mac. The reason why I custom configured it is because I can use for a long time and plus it won't be future upgradable for everything is soldered on the main logic board. This is my 2nd mac. I used to have a Late 2009 Unibody white macbook configured myself with 8Gb memory and an samsung 830 SSD which i sadly sold cause my car unexpectedly broke down. So to start the actual review, All I can say is I'm Impressed with my new Haswell Macbook Pro Retina. Although it states 9 hours of battery, I've seen my battery indicator go all the way up ~15 hours. OS X Mavericks is so well made that its very efficient and powerful even older macs. The retina screen is absolutely Gorgeous!!~~ this laptop is also extremely robust and strong. I feel like I'm gonna go on and on and on. I just can't seem to find any flaws even on my older 2009 macbook. Absolutely NO COMPROMISES. Every single computer should never have compromises. Every single computer should get perfect battery life and performance at the same time. Simply just Flawless!~~~ I plan on using my mac for the next 8-10 years.