- #Early 2015 macbook pro 13 serial
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#Early 2015 macbook pro 13 mac
It must be kept in mind that, Mac notebooks are eligible for an extended battery-only repair period for up to 10 years from when the product was last distributed for sale, subject to parts availability.Īpple is going to complete its 2-year transition of the Mac lineup from Intel processors to Apple Silicon this year.
#Early 2015 macbook pro 13 pro
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014).Here is the list of Mac models that Apple considers vintage productsĪs listed on Apple’s support page, the following Mac models recently became vintage products: Apple suppliers gearing up for new MacBook Pro launches, event expected in October.Here’s one use scenario: you would like to copy a 25GB video file from a fast external storage drive (and to keep up with the internal flash drive performance, we are now only talking about a Thunderbolt-connected disk array or fast SSD system such as the LaCie LBD 2). To wit, sequential write speed now reached up to a maximum of 1424 MB/s, with averages of 2–10MB files of 1353MB/s and an average speed of 1231MB/s for 20–100MB data (all measurements with QuickBench). There’s a large discrepancy between reading and writing here, usually explained as a reduction in the level of parallelism available to smaller capacity solid-state drives.įrom the 256GB MacBook, we found that write speeds now closely approached read speeds. With the entry-level MacBook Pro and its 128GB flash drive, we measured sequential read speeds of 1500MB/s and sequential write speeds at up to 681MB/s. Or from 121- to 250GB, if we wanted to express available capacities here more accurately. But the surprise for anyone not familiar with the technology is the increase in performance found when moving from 128- to 256GB. The surprise in the middle MacBook Pro is not the missing capacity which has been an issue before this notebook arrived – although we’d dearly like to know what happened to it (and are surprised there’s been no class-action lawsuit in the US yet for false advertising). An example is the ‘240GB’ sized SSDs sold by many brands that internally comprise 256 GB-worth of flash chips but which have 16 GB capacity in this example reserved for over-provisioning a means to keep fresher blocks of memory in reserve to maintain overal longevity and performance. But this goes against the grain of SSD manufacturers that always quote available space after over-provisioning. If we had to guess, the missing space is used for some undocumented over-provisioning of the SSD volume, in order to assist with NAND flash longevity. Even allowing for the hidden EFI (200 MB) and Recovery HD (650MB) partitions, there’s still around 5GB left unaccounted for. Note however that the MacBook Pro is still based on the advanced host controller interface (AHCI), where the new 12-inch MacBook is using a new NVM Express specification for its PCIe-attached flash drive.Ĭapacity for the middle model is advertised as 256GB – and that is real gigabytes, rather than the gibibyte system still indicated in Microsoft Windows – although mysteriously only 250GB is available to the computer.
#Early 2015 macbook pro 13 serial
That contrasts with the previous generation that used two lanes and is now a world away from most of the Windows PC industry which is using comparatively snail-like Serial ATA (SATA). In the case of this middle MacBook Pro, the internal flash drive in our sample was a Samsung-made SSD using four lanes of PCI Express.
#Early 2015 macbook pro 13 update
If you don’t have such requirements, or you’re watching your weight or pennies, the 13-inch may be all you need.Ĭhanges made to this year’s version of the 13-inch are focused on three areas – processor update to Broadwell with its newly shrunk 14 nm silicon, new all-electric Force Touch trackpad, and upgraded four-lane PCIe storage technology.
#Early 2015 macbook pro 13 professional
If you work in professional creative media, scientific research or just enjoy a spot of computer gaming, you can put those powerful graphics engines to good use in the 15-inch MacBook. And even without Nvidia’s help, as we recently discovered the integrated Iris Pro graphics of theĮntry 15-inch MacBook Pro model is a significant step up from every other integrated graphics solution we’ve seen, markedly better than the non-Pro labelled Intel Iris graphics of the 13-inch MacBook Pro. This is the smaller of two available screen sizes, appreciably lighter and more compact than its 15-inch brethren, taking a Core i5 dual-core processor from Intel’s latest Broadwell chip series.Īgainst the best 15-inch it loses most ground in its graphics processor, here an integrated solution that resides within the main CPU, instead of a discrete Nvidia GPU with its own dedicated video memory that’s available to the best 15-inch MacBook Pro model. Let’s recap what goes into the latest 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display.