In July, Apple updated its Retina MacBook Pro line, and while the new models are identical on the outside to their 13in and 15in predecessors, released late last year, the ‘mid-2014’ models feature processors that are just a little bit faster. As modest as these internal improvements are, they do provide more performance bang for the buck.
The new lineup includes five standard configurations. The $1599 system has a 13in Retina display, a 2.6GHz dual-core Core i5 processor (up from 2.4GHz in the previous $1599 model), 128GB of PCIe-based flash storage, and 8GB of RAM (up from 4GB). For $1849, you get the same system, but with 256GB of flash storage. The high-end 13in model, at $2199, includes a 2.8GHz dual-core Core i5 processor (up from 2.6GHz in the previous…