The MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Early 2015 earned a 1 out of 10 in iFixit's repairability assessment.
Once you've bought your parts and tools, check out iFixit's MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Early 2015 repair guides for step-by-step instructions on how to make the fix.
Our battery kits include all the needed tools. The MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display models require a P5 Pentalobe Screwdriver to remove the lower case to begin any internal repairs. Our battery repair kits include the needed adhesive. The battery in a MacBook Pro 13" Retina Early 2015 is adhered to the inside of the upper case. The most common repairs with the 13" Early 2015 model MacBook Pro with Retina Display laptops are replacing a dead battery or a damaged display assembly. This model introduces Apple's "Force Touch" trackpad, has an estimated 10 to 12 hours of battery life, more advanced processors, and faster integrated RAM. Like the 20 models, this machine has no Ethernet or Firewire ports, although adapters are available. The Early 2015 model has two USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot, a MagSafe 2 port, two Thunderbolt 2 ports, Bluetooth 4.0, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The 13.3" widescreen 2560x1600 (227 ppi) display, external ports, and Wi-Fi capabilities are unchanged. Externally, this "Early 2015" model looks very much like the "Late 2013" and "Mid 2014" models. Its performance won’t break any records, but the improved battery life provided by Intel’s new Broadwell processor is genuinely impressive.In MaApple introduced a new 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Even so, it provides solid performance at a competitive mid-range price as long as you don't need to buy too many upgrades and its outstanding battery live ensures that it will really earn its keep when you're on the road. Graphics processing is handled by an integrated Iris Graphics 6100 graphics card with 1.5GB of VRAM. The 13' MacBook Pro (Retina, Early 2015) - MF839LL/A was released in 2015 and features a 2.7 GHz Core i5 processor and 13' Retina display. The 13in MacBook Pro isn't quite in the mobile workstation class and, try as we might, we don't find the new Force Touch trackpad as innovative as Apple seems to think it is. 13' MacBook Pro (Retina, Early 2015) / 2.7 GHz Core i5 / MF839LL/A MF839LL/A / MacBookPro12,1 / A1502.
The increase over its Haswell-based predecessor are small, but this lengthy battery life, combined with the laptop's light weight, make this MacBook a good choice for working on the move. Answer (1 of 5): I answered a similar question here: MacBook 15' 2013 vs 2014 vs 2015 Is there really a need to upgrade from 2013 to 2015 I also posted a good chart there to compare the models.
It lasted just under 22 hours in our light usage test and an impressive ten hours and 21 minutes when playing a high definition YouTube video.
To be fair, that performance isn't bad for the price, but if you want a more powerful quad-core processor or discrete graphics card for 3D design work then you'll have to step up to the 15in version of the MacBook Pro Retina.īattery life was exceptionally lengthy as we've come to expect from Apple laptops.
However, the Iris 6100 did perform well for 2D graphics work, scoring 95 per cent in our Photoshop tests, and was only let down by its weaker performance in 3D graphics (53 per cent) and video rendering (63 per cent).