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Apple's incredible Retina screen comes to its smaller MacBook Pro. But is it worth the rather large outlay?
The 2012 refresh gives Apple's most portable MacBook Pros an exciting upgrade, away from the Retina display on the 15-inch version.
The new 2012 MacBook Air boasts the same classic design, but with significantly improved hardware.
Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina display reinvents the high-end notebook, but can it justify the asking price and lack of upgrades?
As well as releasing the new Retina display MacBook Pro, Apple has also updated its regular MacBook Pro notebooks for 2012.
We test the 11-inch 2011 MacBook Air with an upgraded 1.8GHz processor and 256GB hard drive . It's awesome, but is it good enough for the £1,399 price tag?
Apple's 17" top-of-the-range notebook leaps forward
A slightly overpriced laptop, but its style, usability and software ably compensate
Although an excellent technological achievement, the MacBook Air has previously struggled to find its niche in the Apple notebook range. It was too expensive to compete with the low-end MacBook, and not powerful enough to replace the higher-specced MacBook Pros. It was light, beautiful and desirable, but unnecessary.
Sure, the MacBook looks great, and the fact that there's no longer such an obvious style divide between it and the more powerful MacBook Pro models is big news, but for our money the new unibody case of the MacBook Pro marks a bigger shift between the old and new MacBook Pros than between the two MacBook generations.
At first glance the new Apple MacBook looks like a cross between its iMac and MacBook Air. It's got the aluminum body and black keyboard reminiscent of the MacBook Air, but it's chunkier and its 13.3-inch (viewable) glossy screen comes complete with an iMac-style black border.
Apple laptops are often the choice of design professionals, but the MacBook (£699 inc. VAT) is aimed at home users. Its excellent software compatibility, battery and usability impress, making it a great alternative to Windows-based systems.
This month, Apple rolled out updates to both the MacBook and MacBook Pro. Of the two, the new MacBook Pro offers more talking points; the chips have been replaced, not just sped up, and the trackpad now includes all those lovely Multi-touch gesture controls we first saw on the iPhone and, more recently, the MacBook Air.
Falling in love can blind you to your lover's faults. And we've fallen head over heels in love with the MacBook Air... Despite the removal of key hardware components, a lack of processor oomph, so-so battery life and only one USB port, we're still thrilled to be owning one of the first units to enter the UK.
Apple's laptop range has seen a recent rise in popularity, thanks in part to the success of the iPod. The MacBook (£699 inc. VAT) now offers the latest dual-core Intel processors and the newly released OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system for improved power and usability
If you're not convinced that Windows Vista is an improvement over other operating systems, Apple's MacBook may appeal to you. Using the Mac OS, it's fast, efficient and stable - even when running lots of applications.
Even in much newer company, the Apple MacBook (£829 inc. VAT) continues to look original and fresh. The range has also been overhauled, now featuring Intel Core 2 Duo processors. The Apple's display is a compact 13.3-inches
While still a fairly niche market, Apple's transition to the use of Intel processors has seen a boost to its laptop sales. Able to run Microsoft Windows alongside its own Mac OS X operating system, the Apple MacBook is a stylish and versatile laptop
Apple's transition to Intel processors in 2006 made its technology more accessible than ever. Allowing users to run Mac OS X side-by-side with Microsoft Windows, the Apple MacBook is a powerful and versatile portable system
Apple has never been one to miss out on a marketing opportunity - and the arrival of the MacBook Pro 15-inch and its move to the Intel Core 2 Duo processor proves this
The Apple MacBook (£999 inc. VAT) is the cheaper and smaller sibling to the MacBook Pro, so it comes as no surprise this model has only now been updated to support the Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Apple did amazingly well with its laptop sales last year, and much of that success was down to this little beauty. The MacBook is Apple's excellent consumer laptop and it's just seen its first upgrade.
Apple's leading laptop has been upgraded to keep it on its toes. Prices have come down, processors and memory have been boosted, and features previously only available on the top-end 17-inch model now extend across the range.
Apple hasn't so much reinvented its laptop range this year, as switched its processor to an Intel platform. This arrival has seen the differences between Apple and Windows-based laptops all but disappear.
Amidst the sea of Windows-compatible laptops, the Apple is nothing ifnot distinctive. Still a darling of the publishing industry, Applecomputers have a reputation for ease of use and reliability