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Detailed photos of the teardown are available, as always, on iFixit's website. A retina display is a screen with a pixel density high enough that individual pixels can no longer be discerned by the human eye when the device is held at a normal viewing distance, according to Apple. If you're the type to tinker with your MacBook Pro and you can live without a fancy new display, the non-retina version could be the better bet. Put a 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display (218 ppi) next to a non-Retina 27-inch Thunderbolt display (109 ppi), and the difference will be noticeable, particularly with text. This is not the case with the retina version: 'Incorporating a removable LCD into the MacBook Pro with Retina display would increase the thickness by less than a millimeter, while still preserving the awesome Retina resolution,' the site wrote.

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IFixit also points out that while the non-retina MacBook Pro's LCD would still cost a pretty penny to replace, the LCD is at least removable and users who have cracked their displays won't have to replace the entire assembly.

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The retina version is more akin to the MacBook Air-what you buy from Apple is what you're stuck with until you decide to upgrade to a new computer. More importantly, the non-retina machine does not have RAM soldered onto the logic board like that of the retina MacBook Pro, making the RAM user-removable and upgradable. Old as the non-Retina hardware was, it wasn't without its advantages. For one, Apple uses regular (non-proprietary) screws in the non-retina MacBook Pro, and the hard drive is quite a bit thicker-9.45mm compared to the 3.16mm of the retina MacBook Pro's solid-state drive. A 1,999 version of the 15-inch 2015 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD also continues to be sold. Products equipped with this display offer numerous advantages that non-Retina products. The differences may seem minor from a 'regular' user standpoint, but they certainly add up. These display panels are featured in several Apple products to include the 12-inch MacBook, the MacBook Pro with Retina, the iMac, the newer generations and models of the iPad, the iPad Pro.

The discrepancy comes down to the internal design differences between the two pro machines. Get the pros and cons, key specs, and reviews of the Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina display (late 2012) from users, Engadget editors, and other tech reviewers. The team completed its ritualistic teardown of the mid-2012 MacBook Pro on Wednesday morning, giving it a reparability score of 7 out of 10. While teardown experts iFixit gave the retina MacBook Pro low ratings when it comes to user reparability, the non-retina MacBook Pro introduced at WWDC last week turned out to be quite the opposite. The Surface Book sports the superior display, featuring a 13.5-inch 3,000-by-2,000-resolution touch screen compared to the 13.3-inch, 2,560-by-1,600 resolution on the (non-touch) Retina MacBook.

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