

Since the 13-inch MacBook Pro’s announcement at WWDC 2009, subsequent MacBook Pro changes have been subsurface.

To give it the “Pro” moniker, Apple added support for up to 8GB of memory, a Firewire port, an SD card slot, a much-improved LED-backlit 1280 x 800 screen, a backlit keyboard, higher-end processor and hard drive options (including solid state), all while bringing the baseline price in at about $100 below the prior version.Ģ010-2011: New Cores, AMD GPUs and Thunderbolt When Apple’s Phil Schiller announced at WWDC 2009 that the 13-inch unibody MacBook would be adopted by the Pro family and become its entry-level model, no one’s jaw hit the floor, but the 13-inch MacBook Pro would go on to become Apple’s bestselling MacBook laptop.įor starters, it was capable of six to seven hours of battery life, just like the updated 15-inch model - two to three hours better than the prior MacBook Pro models.
