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9to5Toys Last Call: Save up to $325 on a Retina MacBook Pro, $100 iTunes gift card for $85, more

Jul 26 2013 - 3:00 pm PT

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From 9to5Toys.com:

A large majority of the deals we cover each day come from a variety of ‘Daily Deal’ websites or are so popular that they don’t even last 24 hours. We know you can’t be at your computer every second, so we’re going to round up the best deals each day to make sure you have a fair shot at the deals you want. Be sure to follow 9to5Toys.com so you never miss a deal... Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+.

Also check out the latest 9to5Mac Happy Hour to hear the latest 9to5Toys segment. During the show, there’s a mention of $50 video conversion software currently available for free and the VPN service proXPN.com available at a 20% discount.

Today’s Featured deals:

SOLD OUT Save up to $325 on all Retina MacBook Pro configurations, 13″ model starts at $1,174 w/ free shipping

• Apple SuperDrive $70 (Reg. $79)

SOLD OUT $100 iTunes Gift Card for $85: Save 15% on future purchases of Apps, Music, Movies, more

SOLD OUT Save $30 on the new 1080p Nexus 7, 16GB starts at just $199 w/ free shipping

Other great deals we love:

• New! Belkin WeMo Home Automation Switch + Motion Sensor bundle for iOS devices $55 Shipped (Reg. $100)
• New! Over 40 of the most popular Kindle daily deal books for $3 or less
• New! Apple 13.3″ MacBook Air 1.8GHz Intel Core i5 Dual-Core, 256GB, 4GB RAM $1149 (Reg. $1299)
  
• New! Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Quadricopter w/ Replacement Battery for iOS and Android Devices $272 Shipped (Reg. $340)
• New! 1-Year Magazine Subscriptions: Bloomberg BusinessWeek $20, Car and Driver $4.50
• New! Klipsch G-17 Apple AirPlay Wireless Speaker System $100 Shipped (Reg. $500)

• TCL Introduces The First 50″ 4k Ultra HDTV with sub $1000 Retail Price
• Snagit 11 – Screen Capture Tool (Mac Download) $20 (Reg. $50)
• JBuds J3 Micro Atomic In-Ear Earbuds (silver, black) $10 Shipped (Reg. $60)
• ZAGGfolio iPad 2/3/4 Bluetooth keyboard case $50 Shipped (Reg. $100)
• AOC announces new 16″ DisplayLink USB 3.0-powered portable LED monitor
• JBL launches the new WR2.4 Wireless Headphones w/ noise-free, 100ft. reception range
• RapidWeaver 5 Mega Bundle – Themes, Stacks, and Plug-ins $80 (Reg. $700)
• The Summer 2013 Mac Bundle Ft. Parallels Desktop 8 For Mac $50 ($482 value)

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QuickRes 3.0 makes switching resolutions on your Retina MacBook Pro quick and easy

Mike Beasley May 14 2013 - 5:56 pm PT

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Switching resolutions on a Retina MacBook Pro usually requires going through System Preferences, but an app called QuickRes is designed to mitigate that annoying process.

QuickRes puts an icon in your Mac’s menu bar that allows you to quickly jump between a variety of preset display resolutions, even beyond supported by Apple, all the way up to 3840×2400. QuickRes can also enable HiDPI mode on non-Retina Macs, effectively doubling the resolution and giving a clearer (albeit bigger) picture.

To switch resolutions, you can right-click the app’s menu bar icon to select which display you want to change (if you have more than one), then select a resolution from a list of presets. You can also setup anywhere from two to eight of your favorite resolutions and switch between them quickly by clicking on the menu bar icon.

QuickRes is available in two flavors. The paid version is available for a 9to5Mac-exclusive price of $.99 (regularly $1.99) through this discount link. The free version, which supports fewer resolutions and does not include a quick HiDPI toggle for non-Retina, is available on the Mac App Store.

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Apple Store also drops prices of refurbished Retina MacBook Pros (now start at $1269) and MacBook Airs

Jordan Kahn Feb 13 2013 - 7:41 am PT

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From 9to5Toys.com:

Following price drops and minor processor upgrades for Apple Retina MacBook Pros this morning, Apple also further discounted its refurbished MacBook Pros. Apple took 15 percent off the MacBook Pros in January, and it dropped the 256GB 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro even more to $1,359 today. Other refurbished Retina MacBooks have been discounted as well. The 512GB 2.9GHz Retina MacBook Pro now sells for $1,779 refurbished. Apple also discounted its 256GB 13-inch MacBook Air to $1,099, and it received a price drop this morning to $1,399 new.

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Retina MacBook Pro shipping times improve to ‘2-3 weeks’

Jordan Kahn Jul 13 2012 - 5:30 am PT

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Since the launch of Apple’s new Retina MacBook Pro, shipping times worldwide for the company’s online store—for the most part—have sat at “3-4 weeks.” Today, shipping times have begun to drop with the U.S., Canadian, and some Asia-Pacific markets now listing the device with an estimated shipping time of “2-3 weeks.” The updated shipping times appear to be landing in many European stores as well.

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• New MacBook Pro with Retina display shipping in ‘2-3 weeks’ (9to5mac.com)

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iFixit tears down the refreshed MacBook Pro, compares repairability to Retina MBP

Jordan Kahn Jun 20 2012 - 5:35 am PT

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Since the introduction of Apple’s refreshed Mac lineup earlier this month, iFixit has torn apart the new machines one at a time starting with the new 13-inch MacBook Air, then the Retina MacBook Pro, and finally the Retina display itself (which it later confirmed is made by Philips). Today, it is venturing inside the refreshed MacBook Pro and comparing it to the Retina model:

As for the tear down itself, iFixit found the refreshed MacBook Pro lineup, which has the same overall design and is largely unchanged on the inside too. More interesting is how the Retina MBP (1/10 repairability score) and refreshed last-gen MBP (7/10 repairability score) compare:

The regular MacBook Pro is always cited first, compared to the MacBook Pro with Retina Display:

* Use of regular vs. proprietary screws. This is a no-brainer in our books — there’s absolutely no benefit from using a proprietary pentalobe screw type in any electronic device, aside from keeping users out of it.

* The battery is exactly the same capacity as last year’s model: 77.5 Wh at 10.95 V. It’s the same size as well, a solid 13.8 mm in thickness. The MacBook Pro with Retina Display’s battery varies in thickness from 5.25 mm to 8.60 mm depending on which cell you measure, and it has a plastic frame around some of the cells. Although the discrepancy is large between the two battery thicknesses, the Retina MacBook Pro’s battery (seen here http://bit.ly/retina_battery) is spread out over a much larger surface area. It would’ve taken some engineering, but Apple could expand the frame in the Retina MacBook Pro to encompass the whole battery, and allow it to come out as a singular, non-glued unit.

* Here’s a big difference: the regular MacBook Pro 2.5″ SATA hard drive is 9.45 mm thick, compared to 3.16 mm for the SSD found in the Retina Display MacBook Pro. But the SSD is one of the few things that is actually removable from the Retina version, and Apple *could* use a non-proprietary mSATA connector so folks could replace the drive with an off-the-shelf unit.

* While the individual RAM modules are thin (~3.15 mm), the “stacked” RAM slots in the regular MacBook Pro are a whopping 9.15 mm thick. Yet the entire Retina MacBook Pro is only 18 mm thick, and allocating half of that dimension to RAM slots would be a big sacrifice. But, an individual RAM slot is only 4.27 mm thick; if the design of the logic board featured the RAM slots side by side (like older MacBooks), folks could still replace their RAM for years to come.

* While the regular MacBook Pro display may not be Retinalicious, a cracked LCD will still be the most expensive repair (aside from the logic board) on this machine. Thankfully, users can replace just the LCD instead of the entire assembly. 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.

* We love the optical drive in the regular MacBook Pro because we appreciate the additional space given by adding a second hard drive (using one of our SATA enclosures: http://bit.ly/sata_enclosure). A significant portion of the weight savings in the Retina MacBook Pro comes from Apple’s removal of the optical drive. While the lack of an optical drive won’t be major imposition for many, the inability to inexpensively add a secondary, high capacity spinning drive is definitely a significant loss in terms of upgradability.

Related articles

• iFixit tears down the new Retina MacBook Pro, calls it “least repairable laptop” yet (9to5mac.com)
• iFixit tears down the new MacBook Pro’s Retina display, an “engineering marvel” (9to5mac.com)
• iFixit: MacBook Pro’s amazing Retina Display is made by LG Philips (9to5mac.com)