Apple is charging $1099 for a machine with 4GB RAM and a slow 500GB spinning metal drive. Just $100 more will get you the 13-inch MacBook Air with 8GB RAM and a super-fast 256GB PCIe-based SSD that will, in most real-life situations, deliver better performance in a far more portable form. You can still buy the non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro in retail stores, just as you can online, but you do have to know that it exists.Īs a purchase, it doesn’t make too much sense these days unless you need integrated Ethernet, DVD and don’t mind a slow non-retina display.
We’ve been hearing reports of the model being withdrawn from display in Apple Stores for a week or so now, and checks by both AI and TNW appear to confirm that this is official … It now appears that the company is doing the same thing in its retail stores to the last remaining product of an optical drive bygone era. I mentioned in an opinion piece back in April that while Apple still sells a single non-Retina MacBook Pro model, it does its best to tuck it away out of sight – not mentioned at all on the main MacBook Pro page, and hidden at the bottom of the ‘ buy‘ page.
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