introducing apple macbook pro with retina display 2012 - 15-inch & 13-inch model

Performance Tech SpecsBuilt‐in AppsOS XDesignFeatures

The highest-resolution notebook ever. And the second-highest.


Stunning Retina display.Millions of pixels ahead of its time.

One look and it’s clear: with over 4 million pixels on the 13‐inch model and over 5 million pixels on the 15‐inch model, the Retina display on MacBook Pro is an incredible engineering feat. Whether you’re retouching

professional photography or editing a home movie in HD, all those pixels give you images a level of clarity you’ve never seen on any notebook – or any computer, for that matter. With colors so rich and vibrant and details so

sharp, it’s a display worthy of the world’s most advanced notebook


MacBook Pro with Retina display is built entirely around a flash architecture. Flash is the fastest, most reliable storage technology. And it provides unprecedented power and capability in an

amazingly compact 13‐inch and a superslim 15‐inch model. The processor, graphics, and I/O all benefit from the higher bandwidth speeds that flash storage offers. Together, they let this

notebook do things no other notebook can. Because no other notebook is built to.

All‐flash architecture.It makes quicker work of everything.


Thin. Kight. Powerful.There’s innovation in every nanometer.

With state‐of‐the‐art flash storage, the latest Intel processor, and next‐generation graphics built for speed, MacBook Pro packs a lot of power into not a lot of space. Apple

designers and engineers reconsidered each detail of every internal component to maximize performance and minimize size. As a result, these notebooks are the thinnest,

lightest, and highest‐performance MacBook Pro models we’ve ever made.


OS X Mountain Lion.The world’s most advanced desktop operating system.

OS X Mountain Lion takes full advantage of the incredible technologies in every Mac. It makes a powerful computer intuitive and easy to use. It makes Multi‐Touch gestures on the trackpad feel fluid and natural. It makes it easy to find, organize, share, and do just about eveything. And thanks to iCloud, it makes your Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

work wonderfully together.


A groundbreaking Retina display. All‐flash architecture. The fastest mobile processors. Remarkably thin and light 13-inch and 15-inch designs. Together, these features take the notebook to a place it’s never been. And

they’ll do the same for everything you create with it.


15‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display 15‐inch MacBook Pro

We wanted a screen as vivid as your imagination. A screen where everything you see is vibrant, detailed, and sharp. With the 15‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, we created the world’s highest‐resolution notebook display. The only thing that even comes close? The supercompact13‐inch model. They’re two of a kind. And in a class all their own.

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Multimillion‐pixel view.When you pack so many pixels into a display — over 4 million on the 13‐inch model and over 5 million on the 15‐inch model — the results are positively stunning. The pixel density is so high, your eyes can’t discern individual pixels. Images take on a new level of realism. Text is pin sharp. A spectacular 2560‐by‐1600 resolution on the 13‐inch MacBook Pro and an equally impressive 2880‐by‐1800 resolution on the 15‐inch MacBook Pro let you see more of your high‐resolution images with pixel‐for‐pixel accuracy.

More color and contrast. Less glare.The Retina display reduces glare up to 75 percent while maintaining incredible color and quality. In fact, it has a 29 percent higher contrast ratio than a standard MacBook Pro display. Blacks are blacker. Whites are whiter. And everything in between is rich and vibrant. IPS technology gives you a wide, 178‐degree view of everything on the screen, so you’ll see the difference at practically any angle. And you’re going to love what you see.

The 13‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display has nearly 2 million more pixels than an HDTV. The 15‐inch model has over 3 million more.

We wanted a screen as vivid as your imagination. A screen where everything you see is vibrant, detailed, and sharp. With the 15‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, we created the world’s highest‐resolution notebook display. The only thing that even comes close? The supercompact13‐inch model. They’re two of a kind. And in a class all their own.


When your goal is to build the high‐performance notebook of the future, you begin at its foundation. For this MacBook Pro with Retina display, that foundation was flash. Because when you

build a notebook around an all‐flash architecture, not only is everything more durable, reliable, and battery efficient — everything is fast. Really, really fast.


There’s a reason they call it “flash.”You’ll notice a difference in whatever you do — starting up takes seconds, apps launch quickly, even navigating the desktop feels incredibly fluid and responsive. It’s all thanks to flash storage, which gives you up to four times the performance of a traditional hard drive. So you can import huge photo libraries into Aperture in no time flat. And on the 15‐inch model, flash storage combines with quad‐core processors and high‐performance discrete graphics to make quick work of even the most demanding editing tasks in Final Cut Pro. Since these MacBook Pro models come with up to 768GB of flash storage, you can keep all your important files with you. Flash doesn’t have any moving parts, which makes it superdurable and quiet. And flash storage is extremely energy efficient, which means your MacBook Pro also has the ability to stay in standby mode for up to a month, without plugging in. So whether it’s been 1 day or 30, your all‐flash MacBook Pro will spring to life, right where you left off.

When your goal is to build the high‐performance notebook of the future, you begin at its foundation. For this MacBook Pro with Retina display, that foundation was flash. Because when you

build a notebook around an all‐flash architecture, not only is everything more durable, reliable, and battery efficient — everything is fast. Really, really fast.


MacBook Pro has more than just processing power. It has an incredible amount of battery power, too. So you can do more than ever — all on a single charge.

Matching power for power.A 7‐hour battery life is impressive for any notebook. But for a high‐performance notebook with an ultra‐high‐resolution display, top‐of‐the‐line processors and graphics, and a superslim design, it’s absolutely remarkable. The built‐in battery gives you up to 1000 full charge and discharge cyclesand up to 30 days of instant‐on standby time.

up to 7 hourswireless web

Power NapWith Power Nap in OS X Mountain Lion, your MacBook Pro continues to receive new email and calendar invitations while it’s asleep. And when it’s connected to a power source, it can download software updates and make backups with Time Machine. So the next time you open your notebook, everything’s right there waiting for you.


MacBook Pro with Retina display features the latest Intel dual‐core and quad‐core processors. They’re the muscle behind the most powerful

notebooks we’ve ever built.


The new mobile powerhouses.With a dual‐core Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processor, the 13‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display lets you take your most performance‐hungry apps on the road. That means wherever you can take your camera, you can take Aperture and your entire digital photo studio, too. Hyper‐Threading technology, which enhances performance by letting each core handle multiple tasks simultaneously, is included in every model. And with speeds up to 2.9GHz and Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.6GHz, these processors are ready for just about anything.

The 15‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display has the power to do even more amazing things. Third‐generation quad‐core Intel Core i7 processors with a state‐of‐the‐art 22‐nanometer microarchitecture provide the fastest performance ever in a MacBook Pro. With speeds up to 2.7GHz, up to 8MB of shared L3 cache, and Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.7GHz, these processors make quick work of even the most complex tasks in professional apps like Final Cut Pro. They also support up to 16GB of superfast 1600MHz memory. Which means the 15‐inch MacBook Pro is ready to take on whatever you can dream up, wherever your travels take you.

MacBook Pro with Retina display features the latest Intel dual‐core and quad‐core processors. They’re the muscle behind the most powerful

notebooks we’ve ever built.


These graphics are so fast, smooth, and realistic, you might just forget you’re looking at a computer screen.


These graphics are so fast, smooth, and realistic, you might just forget you’re looking at a computer screen.

The power behind the pixels.The 13‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display features Intel HD Graphics 4000 — perfect for both everyday tasks and graphics‐intensive creative apps. Scroll through large photo albums with ease. Play games with amazing detail. Even connect an external display or two. It’s just another way this 13‐inch MacBook Pro is small on size and big on performance.

The 15‐inch model has a phenomenal display — and a GPU to match. The NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics processor based on next‐generation Kepler architecture with 1GB of dedicated video memory provides up to 60 percent faster graphics performance than any notebook we’ve ever made. And it delivers enough power to drive the amazing 5‐million‐pixel Retina display as well as two external displays. All while making the most graphics‐intensive tasks — like rendering HD video and editing RAW photography — fast, easy, and incredibly fluid.


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The future of high‐speed data transfer. Ready to use today.Everything about the MacBook Pro with Retina display is high performance — even its I/O. Whether you choose the 13‐inch or the 15‐inch model, you’ll get two Thunderbolt ports — the fastest, most versatile I/O available. That’s a huge advantage when you need to connect to just about anything — external displays, RAID arrays, video capture devices, even FireWire peripherals (adapter sold separately) and Gigabit Ethernet networks (adapter sold separately). Combine that with two USB 3 ports, an HDMI port, and an SDXC card slot, and in a matter of minutes you can build an entire professional studio with MacBook Pro as its centerpiece.

Stay connected with the most advanced wireless technology.Meet the ultimate mobile creative studio. With an emphasis on mobile. Equipped with the latest three‐stream 802.11n Wi‐Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology, you’re free to unplug and still stay connected — to your network, to your wireless peripherals, and to the world. And with AirPlay and Apple TV, you can wirelessly play video, show off photos, and enjoy music from your MacBook Pro on your HDTV.


Stereo Speakers Dual Mics


Advanced speaker design. Your notebook never sounded this good.You haven’t heard it all until you’ve heard the speakers inside the MacBook Pro. For something so thin and light, the sound is huge. And with a wide dynamic range, optimal balance, and a crisp, expressive quality, these speakers might sound too good to be true. That’s because we labored painstakingly over the design to maximize the quality of every decibel you hear.

Dual mics. They’ll hear you loud and clear.Dual built‐in microphones are great for when you want to be heard. If you’re making a FaceTime call, for example, the mics reduce background noise from behind the notebook. And when you use Dictation, they create an adaptive audio beam that intelligently adjusts to detect your voice — instead of the noise around you.


Touch and go go go.In OS X, Multi‐Touch is an essential part of how you interact with your Mac. Using realistic, intuitive gestures, you can switch between apps, navigate your content, and get the most out of your desktop space. The all‐new MacBook Pro features a Multi‐Touch trackpad with a large, all‐glass button surface. So you can tap, pinch, swipe, and click away comfortably.

A brighter way to work.Thin and light, this notebook is designed to go anywhere —including places with less‐than‐stellar lighting. A built‐in sensor detects changes in ambient light and adjusts the keyboard brightness automatically. So you’re never left in the dark.


Your content. On all your devices.iCloud stores your content and lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents, and more from whatever device you’re on. So if you take a picture with your iPhoneor make changes to your meeting schedule on your iPad, iCloud makes sure everything appears on your Mac, too. And it works both ways — create a to‐do list on your Mac and you can make edits to it on your iPhone.


Your favorite software. As you’ve never seen it before.To take advantage of the beautiful Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion apps like Safari, Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and more — as well as other Apple apps including iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iTunes, Aperture, and Final Cut Pro — have already been optimized, and updates to other Apple apps are coming soon. To see the latest Retina‐ready apps for the Mac, visit the Mac App Store


When we designed the MacBook Pro with Retina display, we started with a blank slate. That gave us the freedom to imagine something radical, something entirely

different. A notebook so thin, so light, and so powerful. A notebook designed for the future, but ready to use today.


13‐inch MacBook Pro

It may be incredibly thin and light, but the all‐new MacBook Pro is also incredibly powerful. To achieve all that in a single designrequired relentless focus and a willingness to make bold decisions. Every millimeter was designed, engineered, built, and assembled to the most exacting performance standards. Bulky legacy technologies like the spinning hard drive and optical disc drive were left behind in favor of newer, higher‐performance technologies — all‐flash storage, for example. It’s much faster and far more reliable than a traditional hard drive. And it takes up 90 percent less space. Which is one of many reasons this MacBook Pro isn’t just extremely capable, it’s extremely portable, too.

13‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display

At just 0.75 inch thin and 3.57 pounds, the supercompact 13‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is 20 percent thinner and almost a pound lighter than its 13‐inch predecessor.


It may be incredibly thin and light, but the all‐new MacBook Pro is also incredibly powerful. To achieve all that in a single designrequired relentless focus and a willingness to make bold decisions. Every millimeter was designed, engineered, built, and assembled to the most exacting performance standards. Bulky legacy technologies like the spinning hard drive and optical disc drive were left behind in favor of newer, higher‐performance technologies — all‐flash storage, for example. It’s much faster and far more reliable than a traditional hard drive. And it takes up 90 percent less space. Which is one of many reasons this MacBook Pro isn’t just extremely capable, it’s extremely portable, too.

At just 0.71 inch thin and 4.46 pounds, the 15‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is 25 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than its 15‐inch predecessor.

15‐inch MacBook Pro 15‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display


The Retina display is a breakthrough — any way you look at it. We pushed the limits of technology to create a pixel density so high, you can see everything you’re doing with perfect clarity and make edits with pinpoint accuracy. Not only is it the highest‐resolution display ever on a notebook, it has a new, more integrated design that achieves a level of fit and finish never before possible. This Retina display doesn’t sit behind a layer of glass, it is the glass. Which means you get all the benefits of a state‐of‐the‐art display — vibrant colors, high contrast, and wide viewing angles —with very little glare. So there’s more to see, and even less to distract you from your work.


We designed every aspect of the MacBook Pro with Retina display with performance in mind. From the beginning, the entire internal structure was built to house the very best high‐performance components. The 15‐inch model features the most powerful processor and graphics we’ve ever put in a notebook. And the 13‐inch MacBook Pro is the lightest MacBook Pro ever — giving you great performance in a notebook almost a pound lighter than its predecessor. Despite packing such an enormous amount of power into such a slim design, we still achieved an astonishing 7‐hour battery life.2 We also found a way to integrate the highest‐quality speakers we’ve ever designed for a notebook. And we engineered a new cooling system that draws in air from three sides of the notebook. Alone, each of these elements is an incredible accomplishment. Together, they make MacBook Pro the world’s most advanced notebook.

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Designing from the ground up meant completely rethinking which ports belong on a high‐performance notebook. Both the 13‐inch and 15‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display feature the fastest, most advanced I/O technology available. They’re the first notebooks ever to include two Thunderbolt ports, two USB 3 ports, and an HDMI port — giving you the flexibility to connect multiple external displays, an HDTV, and other high‐performance devices. Without a traditional optical drive, there’s room for ports conveniently located on both sides of the notebook. We even created a slim MagSafe 2 port to accommodate its thin, sleek design. So you can take this notebook anywhere. And be ready for anything.



MacBook Pro with Retina display is the result of an obsessive focus on detail. Apple designers and engineers worked closely together to craft every single piece that went into making it —the fans, the vents, the speakers, the noise‐reducing microphones, the screws, even the machining of the thumbscoop. Everything was considered, and nothing overlooked. Because when a notebook becomes this advanced, every nanometer counts.

SpeakersFans Mics

High‐Efficiency FansAsymmetrically spaced impeller blades and back and side airflow vents work together to move the maximum amount of air while reducing tonal impact.

High‐Efficiency FansAsymmetrically spaced impeller blades and back and side airflow vents work together to move the maximum amount of air while reducing tonal impact.


SpeakersFans Mics

Breakthrough SpeakersCustom speakers utilize every cubic millimeter of available space to provide high‐fidelity sound with a wide dynamic range and better bass response

Breakthrough SpeakersCustom speakers utilize every cubic millimeter of available space to provide high‐fidelity sound with a wide dynamic range and better bass response



SpeakersFans Mics

Dual Adaptive MicrophonesDual microphones precisely oriented under the speaker grille use an adaptive beam‐forming algorithm to reduce background noise and optimize performance








MacBook Pro with Retina display changes the entire notebook experience. What you see onscreen is unbelievably sharp. Everything you do is lightning fast. And if you can imagine it, you can create it. Welcome to the future of pro performance.


4x Greater BandwidthWith sequential read speeds up to 500MBps, all‐flash storage is up to four times faster than a

traditional hard drive.

Faster than the sum of its parts.The latest dual‐core and quad‐core processors help you power through the most complicated technical computing tasks. Next‐generation graphics let you take on GPU‐intensive rendering. State‐of‐the‐art I/O like Thunderbolt and USB 3 makes it possible to expand your workspace in a matter of seconds. And at the center of it all is an entirely flash‐based architecture that makes everything you do incredibly fast and responsive. Specs like these define a whole new standard for notebook computing.

Now art really does imitate life.With over 4 million pixels on the 13‐inch model and over 5 million pixels on the 15‐inch model, the Retina display is the perfect place to view and edit your high‐resolution photos. Dot for dot, more of your image can fit on the screen —which makes editing photos far more precise. And with both models offering far more pixels than any other notebook display, you can see fine details and textures like never before. In fact, the Retina display is so sharp, you can tell which photos are in focus just by looking at the thumbnails.

All your photos. In a flash.With two ultrafast Thunderbolt ports, two USB 3 ports, and an SDXC card slot, you can build a photo studio around MacBook Pro. Or take it with you and import thousands of RAW images on location — up to five times faster than on a standard MacBook Pro.2 Once your photos are on your computer, editing in Aperture is faster and more responsive than on any notebook we’ve ever built. And high‐speed flash storage lets you quickly browse large image libraries frominternal storage. So you have instant access to any photo in your library.


Edit up to four streams of uncompressed 8‐bit 1080p HD video on the 15‐inch model — right from internal storage.

Edit uncompressed video Edit in full 1080p HD


View full 1080p HD video in the Viewer while you edit on the 15‐inch MacBook Pro.

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Power on location.The processor, graphics, all‐flash architecture, memory, and display in the 15‐inch MacBook Pro give you unprecedented mobile video editing capabilities. Super‐responsive flash storage delivers up to nine streams of 1080p ProRes (HQ) content for multicamediting in Final Cut Pro X, while the latest quad‐core processors on the 15‐inch MacBook Pro decode multiple streams of video, and a powerful GPU renders millions of pixels onto the screen. With flash storage that offers up to four times the performance of a traditional hard drive, you can even edit four streams of uncompressed 8‐bit 1080p HD video, right from the internal storage on your 15‐inch MacBook Pro with Retina display.

More onscreen presence.Having four times the pixels of a standard display makes video so sharp, so clear, and so lifelike, your shots may look even better than you remember. And it changes how you edit video on a notebook, especially in Final Cut Pro X or iMovie. For the first time on a portable computer, you can view your video on the 15‐inch MacBook Pro in pixel‐accurate 1080p HD and see your editing workspace onscreen at thesame time.


Work with more pixels per inch.MacBook Pro with Retina display is the ultimate creative design studio. With 2560 by 1600 pixels on the 13‐inch model and 2880 by 1800 pixels on the 15‐inch model, the resolution of the Retina display is so high, it rivals the printed page. Reduced glare, higher contrast, and a 178‐degree viewing angle help make this Retina display the ideal place to see your work. High‐performance graphics and processors let you render images and apply filters with incredible speed. And thanks to flash storage and superfast


A powerful notebook for powerful ideas.The latest quad‐core processors and up to 16GB of 1600MHz memory in the 15‐inch model provide an enormous amount of computational power. And the latest GPU technology and the high‐resolution Retina display allow you to visualize your data like never before. From 3D molecular modeling and DNA imaging to architectural renderings and structural analysis, MacBook Pro with Retina display lets you do things that once were possible only on a desktop computer — anywhere the job takes you.


Work hard. Plays beautifully.Take your gaming to a whole new level with MacBook Pro with Retina display. Millions of pixels give you gameplay with more detail and nuance than you’ve ever seen on any other screen. Even in the most intense action games, superfast processors and graphics give you amazing fluidity and smoothness. MacBook Pro with Retina display is so thin and light, you can play wherever you go. And with all the games available on the Mac App Store, you’ll have no trouble finding something to play.


Built on a rock‐solid UNIX foundation, OS X is engineered to take full advantage of the technologies in every new Mac. And to deliver the most intuitive and integrated computer experience.


Hardware and software made for each other.Since the software built into every Mac is created by the same company that makes the Mac, you get a fully integrated system in which everything works together perfectly. OS X works with the processor in your Mac to deliver the best possible performance. It works with the Multi‐Touch trackpad in Mac notebooks so they feel natural to use. Power Nap takes advantage of the Mac hardware to keep the entire system up to date while it sleeps.1 And OS X gives you long battery life by working with the computer’s built‐in sensors to dim the screen in low‐light conditions and even regulating processor activity between keystrokes.


Multi‐Touch, Mac style.Use your fingers to tap, scroll, pinch, and swipe your way around the Mac. Because Apple makes both the hardware and software, Multi‐Touch gestures are remarkably precise. This precision makes Multi‐Touch the most natural and intuitive way to use a computer. When you scroll down on your trackpad or Magic Mouse, your document scrolls down. When you scroll up, your web page scrolls up. When you swipe left, your photos move left. These and many more gestures make all you do on your Mac easier, intuitive, and fun.


It’s remarkably simple.From the desktop you see when you start up your Mac to the applications you use every day, everything is designed to be easy and intuitive. And it all makes perfect sense, especially if you have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. The desktop is clean and simple. It takes one click to open an app and a few more to buy, download, and install new apps from the Mac App Store. On a Mac, it’s easy to find, share, and do just about everything. And a Mac does so many things automatically, sometimes you don’t have to do anything at all.


It’s incredibly powerful.Making powerful things simple requires some seriously advanced technologies. OS X is loaded with them. It’s built on a rock‐solid, time‐tested UNIX foundation that provides unparalleled stability and industry‐leading support for Internet standards. And the incredible graphics performance in OS X allows applications like Aperture and Final Cut Pro to give you unprecedented photo and video editing capabilities. OS X is engineered to take advantage of the latest technologies in every Mac.


It’s easy to get around.On the Mac, everything is right at your fingertips, right where you need it. The Dock is a handy place for all your favorite apps. From the Dock, you can launch apps quickly and switch between them easily. If an app isn’t on the Dock, you’ll find it in Launchpad. Go there to see all the apps on your Mac full screen and organize them however you like. And Mission Control gives you a bird’s‐eye view of all your open windows, so you can keep track of everything you’re working on. OS X offers systemwide support for gorgeous, full‐screen apps that use every inch of your Mac display. You can have multiple full‐screen apps open at once — along with multiple apps in windows. And it’s easy to switch between full‐screen and desktop views.

Full‐Screen AppsLaunchpadMission Control

Quick WidgetsDashboard gives you quick access to your widgets.

Handy ThumbnailsFull‐screen apps and your desktops appear at the top of Mission Control.

Organized FilesExposé groups application windows together.




Reorder apps any way you like, or organize them in folders.




Click to switch between full‐screen and desktop views. Click to switch between full‐screen and desktop views.


Find, organize, and share files fast.The Finder helps you find, organize, and access practically everything on your Mac. And features like Spotlight and Quick Look make locating the file you’re looking for effortless — even if you don’t know what it’s called. Say you’re searching for a document, and the only thing you recall about it is the phrase “surrealist painters.” Open Spotlight, start typing “surrealist painters,” and your Mac generates a list of files that contain those words. And with Quick Look, you don’t need to open an application to know you’ve found the right file —just hit the space bar and you’ll see a full‐size preview. Want to share a file with someone nearby? Just drag and drop to send it wirelessly with AirDrop.

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Four Finder ViewsWith just a click, choose how you’d like the Finder to appear.

Large IconsApp icons are clear so you can find files easier.

Simple SidebarGet quick access to drives, servers, and shared computers. .




Enter a word or phrase, and Spotlight generates a list of where it appears.




Drag and drop a file to send it wirelessly to someone on the same network.


iCloud. It’s how Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch work even better together.Sign in once with your Apple ID on your new Mac, and iCloud is automatically set up in all the apps that use it. So if you have iCloud set up on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, whatever you do on your Mac happens on those devices, too. And it works the other way around. Update something on another device, and the same update will be made on your Mac. So your mail, contacts, calendars, messages, documents, data, and more go wherever you go. From your Mac to your iPhone to your iPad and back to your Mac.


Safety. Built right in. Windows compatibility.

Safety. Built right in. Built‐in appsyou’ll use every day.

Every Mac is designed with powerful, advanced technologies that work together to constantly scrutinize, encrypt, update —and ultimately keep your Mac safer. For starters, OS X is built on a proven, secure UNIX foundation. It also includes a host of features designed to protect your Mac and the information on it. Gatekeeper makes it safer to download and install apps. FileVault safeguards data using powerful encryption. Find My Mac helps you locate your missing Mac on a map, set a passcode remotely, and more. Customizable privacy settings keep your personal information under your control. And the best way to keep your Mac up to date with the latest security features? Just install software updates with a click.

OS X comes standard with a wide range of assistive technologies that help people with disabilities experience what the Mac has to offer, including many features you won’t find in other operating systems — at any price. For example, built‐in VoiceOver screen‐reading technology, available in over 20 languages, makes it possible for those who are blind or have low vision to control their computers using key commands or gestures on a Multi‐Touch trackpad. OS X also offers out‐of‐the‐box support for more than 40 braille displays (including Bluetooth displays) and many other accessibility features, such as dynamic full‐screen magnification, playback of closed captions, and a scalable screen.

The versatility and power of OS X help a Mac fit in just about anywhere — including Windows networks. Want to transfer your files, photos, and other data from a Windows PC? OS X lets you do that easily. If you want to run Windows on your Mac, you can do that, too.3 OS X has built‐in support for the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server, so you can use your Mac at home and at work and keep all your messages, meetings, and contacts in one place. OS X works with virtually all of today’s digital cameras, printers, and other peripherals without the need to manually download separate drivers. And it opens popular file types such as JPG, MP3, and PDF, as well as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.

OS X comes in a single version that includes a collection of Apple‐designed applications. Not only do they let you surf the web, make FaceTime video calls, send messages, manage your contacts, and accomplish other day‐to‐day tasks, they also work together to make you more productive — and let you have more fun.


It comes with apps for sending email, managing your schedule, making video calls, and backing up your Mac automatically. It even comes with an app for shopping for new apps. With OS X

Mountain Lion, your Mac is more than full‐featured, it’s fully loaded.

iPhoto iPhoto GarageBand Mac App Store Safari

Mail Messages Calendar Contacts Reminders


iPhoto is an easy‐to‐use photo application that makes it fast and fun to organize and find your pictures, as well as make them look their absolute best. With features like Faces, Places, and Events, iPhoto helps you keep track of your photos by who’s in them and when and where you took them — all in an immersive full‐screen view. Quick and simple editing tools let you make so‐so shots picture perfect with just a few clicks. Photo Stream in iCloud automatically pushes new photos to all your devices, so you’re never without your latest shots.1 And if you feel like showing off what you’ve captured, iPhoto lets you share with beautiful photo books and letterpress cards or online via Facebook and Flickr.

See more of every shot as you view and edit your photos in full‐screen mode.

Share your photos with Facebookfriends or update your profile picture — right from iPhoto.


Don’t settle for boring home movies. With iMovie, you can transform the videos you shoot into your very own indie flicks. Create a Hollywood‐style trailer that’ll make your audience laugh, cry, and cheer for more. If you know how to drag and drop, you can make a movie in iMovie. It comes with Apple‐designed themes that look fun and professional. Just choose one and iMovie does the rest, adding animated titles and sophisticated transitions automatically. Customize your screen gem further with your own words and audio.

Make your very own Hollywood‐style trailers with iMovie.


Whether you’re musically gifted or mostly curious, GarageBand is the application for you. Plug in your electric guitar or USBmusic keyboard and get ready to rock with virtual replicas of the most revered amps and stompboxes in the world, as well as over 100 software instruments. Just because you didn’t grow up learning your A, B, and C sharp doesn’t mean you can’t. Basic Lessons teach you just that: the basics. Choose from 40 lessons that cover blues guitar, rock guitar, classical piano, pop piano, and more. Or get a private lesson from one of your musical heroes, like Sting or Death Cab for Cutie, with Artist Lessons. GarageBand even tells you how well you’re playing in real time with a feature called “How Did I Play?”

Groove Matching brings all your tracks together beautifully —even the ones that are out of rhythm.

Flex Time lets you quickly change the timing of your recording to fix mistakes or extend a riff.


Download thousands of apps from the Mac App Store straight to Launchpad on your Mac.

Just like shopping the App Store on iPad and iPhone, the Mac App Store offers endless possibilities to browse and purchase apps on your Mac. New apps install in one step right to Launchpad. And the Mac App Store lets you know when app updates are available, so you always have the latest versions.


It’s faster, smarter, and more than just a browser. View web pages full screen on every inch of your Mac display. Save articles to your Reading List and read them later — even without an Internet connection. And peruse pages from the clean, uncluttered, ad‐free Safari Reader. Safari works great with iCloud. It keeps your Reading List up to date across all your devices. iCloud Tabs makes the last web pages you looked at available on all your devices, too. So you can always pick up browsing, reading, shopping, and doing just about everything wherever you left off.

iCloud TabsReading ListOverview

There’s one field for search and web addresses. And Safari knows what you’re looking for.




Save articles to your Reading List and read them later — even without an Internet connection.




When you open tabs on your iOS devices, iCloud Tabs makes them accessible on your Mac, too.


Mail makes it easy to manage all your email from a single, ad‐free inbox. It features powerful search capabilities, with search suggestions and tokens built in. It works with the free me.com email account you get when you sign up for iCloud, as well as most email standards — including POP3 and IMAP — and popular email services such as Gmail, Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cox, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail. Mail supports Microsoft Exchange 2010, too. If you have more than one email account, no problem. Add your accounts to Mail and you’ll be able to access all your email from one place. And Mail looks as great as it works. It makes full use of your display with a gorgeous widescreen view featuring a full‐height message and a message list that includes snippets. With Conversations, messages from the same thread appear in an elegant timeline showing each communication as it was sent while hiding redundant text.

ConversationsOverview

Get a widescreen view of your inbox. See one open message and a list of messages with previews.


Conversations keeps messages from the same thread together in the order they were sent.

Mail makes it easy to manage all your email from a single, ad‐free inbox. It features powerful search capabilities, with search suggestions and tokens built in. It works with the free me.com email account you get when you sign up for iCloud, as well as most email standards — including POP3 and IMAP — and popular email services such as Gmail, Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, Cox, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail. Mail supports Microsoft Exchange 2010, too. If you have more than one email account, no problem. Add your accounts to Mail and you’ll be able to access all your email from one place. And Mail looks as great as it works. It makes full use of your display with a gorgeous widescreen view featuring a full‐height message and a message list that includes snippets. With Conversations, messages from the same thread appear in an elegant timeline showing each communication as it was sent while hiding redundant text.

ConversationsOverview


Messages EverywhereOverview

Send unlimited iMessages to anyone on a Mac or an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 5 or later.

Messages on the Mac replaces iChat. It does everything iChat does, and so much more. For starters, it comes with iMessage. So you can send unlimited messages to anyone on a Mac — and on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 5 or later, too. You can even start a conversation on your Mac and pick it up on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Send photos, videos, documents, and contacts. And send messages to a group. You can see when your message has been delivered and when someone’s typing a reply. Turn on read receipts, and friends can see when you’ve read their messages. With end‐to‐end encryption, your messages stay safe and private.


Messages EverywhereOverview

Start a conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Messages on the Mac replaces iChat. It does everything iChat does, and so much more. For starters, it comes with iMessage. So you can send unlimited messages to anyone on a Mac — and on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 5 or later, too. You can even start a conversation on your Mac and pick it up on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Send photos, videos, documents, and contacts. And send messages to a group. You can see when your message has been delivered and when someone’s typing a reply. Turn on read receipts, and friends can see when you’ve read their messages. With end‐to‐end encryption, your messages stay safe and private.


Keep track of your busy schedule and share it with others using Calendar. Create separate calendars —one for home, another for school, a third for work, and so on. See all your calendars in a single window or choose to see only the calendars you want. Calendar lets you create invitations using information from Contacts, update your guest list, keep track of responses, and receive the latest status information. When you or another Mac user receives a Calendar invitation via Mail, it’s automatically added. Calendar also works with iCloud, Yahoo!, and Google. And when you use iCloud, every Calendar edit you make on your Mac automatically appears on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. So no dinner dates are missed, no meeting goes unattended, and no anniversary is forgotten.

See all your calendars in a single window. Or choose to see only the calendars you want.


Contacts is a flexible and convenient place to store information for everyone you know. It’s easy to import names, numbers, addresses, and photos from other applications. And it’s designed for Facebook, too. Contacts automatically includes your friends’ profile photos and information. And when friends update their information, Contacts updates your Mac. You can create smart groups for clubs, activities, and business purposes; print address labels and envelopes; and more. iCloud updates your contacts on your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac — so when you enter someone’s contact info once, you have it everywhere. And since Contacts is built on vCard, an industry standard for storing contact information, your friends can send you cards that you can add simply by dropping them into your contacts list — no typing required.

When you add, delete, or edit a contact, iCloud updates your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac.


Reminders EverywhereOverview

Make lists. Check off your to‐dos. And see everything you’ve completed.

Reminders helps you get all your to‐dos done — on the Mac and on your iOS devices. Make as many to‐do lists as you need and easily add to them. Set due dates and you’ll get alerts as deadlines approach. Check items off your lists as you go and keep track of what you’ve completed. And to be sure you don’t forget anything, iCloudkeeps your reminders up to date on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.


Reminders EverywhereOverview

iCloud keeps your reminders up to date on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.

Reminders helps you get all your to‐dos done — on the Mac and on your iOS devices. Make as many to‐do lists as you need and easily add to them. Set due dates and you’ll get alerts as deadlines approach. Check items off your lists as you go and keep track of what you’ve completed. And to be sure you don’t forget anything, iCloudkeeps your reminders up to date on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.


Time Machine works with your Mac and an external hard drive or Time Capsule (sold separately). Connect the drive, assign it to Time Machine, and start enjoying some peace of mind. Time Machine automatically backs up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on any given day — so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.

Browse by date to see how your system looked at any previous time. And restore your Mac with a click.


Time Machine works with your Mac and an external hard drive or Time Capsule (sold separately). Connect the drive, assign it to Time Machine, and start enjoying some peace of mind. Time Machine automatically backs up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on any given day — so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.

Make video calls to anyone on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or another Mac — from your Mac.


Take fun snapshots and make short videos in Photo Booth. Right from there, you can share what you shoot on Facebook and Twitter. Use photos as your Messages icons. Assign them to friends and family in Contacts. And add photos to your iPhoto library. But the real fun starts when you use the effects and backdrops. Snap a photo of yourself at the Eiffel Tower or in outer space. Choose from nine effects that use facial tracking technology so effects look great whether you’re front and center — or left of center. Snap single photos or shoot multiples in a four‐photo burst. You can even shoot and trim video clips, complete with effects. And see your Photo Booth photos full screen.

Take quick snapshots and film short videos. Even add fun effects.


8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memoryConfigurable to 16GB.

8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L onboard memoryMemory

2.6GHz2.6GHz quad‐core IntelCore i7 processor (TurboBoost up to 3.6GHz)with 6MB shared L3cache

Configurable to 2.7GHz quadcore Intel Core i7 (TurboBoost up to 3.7GHz) with8MB shared L3 cache.

2.3GHz2.3GHz quad‐core IntelCore i7 processor (TurboBoost up to 3.3GHz)with 6MB shared L3cache

Configurable to 2.6GHz quadcore Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz) with6MB shared L3 cache or2.7GHz quad‐core Intel Corei7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz)with 8MB shared L3 cache.

2.5GHz2.5GHz dual‐core IntelCore i5 processor (TurboBoost up to 3.1GHz)With 3MB shared L3cache

Configurable to 2.9GHz dualcore Intel Core i7 (TurboBoost up to 3.6GHz) with4MB shared L3 cache.

2.5GHz2.5GHz dual‐core IntelCore i5 processor (TurboBoost up to 3.1GHz)with 3MB shared L3cache

Configurable to 2.9GHzdual‐core Intel Core i7(Turbo Boost up to3.6GHz) with 4MBshared L3 cache.

Processor

Retina display: 15.4‐inch (diagonal) LED‐backlitdisplay with IPS technology2880‐by‐1800 native resolution at 220 pixels perinch with support for millions of colorsScaled resolutions: 1920 by 1200, 1680 by 1050,1280 by 800, and 1024 by 640 pixels

Retina display: 13.3‐inch (diagonal) LED‐backlitdisplay with IPS technology2560‐by‐1600 native resolution at 227 pixels perinch with support for millions of colorsScaled resolutions: 1680 by 1050, 1440 by 900, and1024 by 640 pixels

Display


720p FaceTime HD camera720p FaceTime HD cameraCamera

Configurable to 768GB Flash storage.

Configurable to 512GB or 768GBFlash storage.

Configurable to 512GB or 768GBFlash storage.

Configurable to 256GB, 512GB, or768GB flash storage.

Storage

Wi‐Fi802.11n Wi‐Fi wireless networking; IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible

BluetoothBluetooth 4.0 wireless technology

Wireless

Height: 0.71 inch (1.8 cm) Width: 14.13 inches (35.89 cm) Depth: 9.73 inches (24.71 cm) Weight: 4.46 pounds (2.02 kg)

Height: 0.75 inch (1.9 cm) Width: 12.35 inches (31.4 cm) Depth: 8.62 inches (21.9 cm) Weight: 3.57 pounds (1.62 kg)

Size and Weight

128GB 256GB 256GB 512GB


Stereo speakers Dual microphones Headphone port Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack) Support for Apple iPhone headset with microphone

Stereo speakers Dual microphones Headphone port Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack) Support for Apple iPhone headset with microphone

Audio

Full‐size backlit keyboard with 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys, including12 function keys and 4 arrow keys (inverted “T” arrangement)with ambient light sensor

Multi‐Touch trackpad for precise cursor control; supports inertialscrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, three‐finger swipe, four‐fingerswipe, tap, double‐tap, and drag capabilities

Keyboard and Trackpad

Intel HD Graphics 4000

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory andautomatic graphics switching

Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports fullnative resolution on the built‐in display and up to 2560 by 1600pixels on up to two external displays, at millions of colors

Thunderbolt digital video output Native Mini DisplayPort output DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter(sold separately)

VGA output using Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter(sold separately)

Dual‐link DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to Dual‐Link DVIAdapter (sold separately)

Intel HD Graphics 4000

Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports fullnative resolution on the built‐in display and up to 2560 by 1600pixels on up to two external displays, at millions of colors

Thunderbolt digital video output Native Mini DisplayPort output DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter(sold separately)

VGA output using Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter(sold separately)

Dual‐link DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to Dual‐Link DVIAdapter (sold separately)

Graphics and Video Support


MagSafe 2 power port SDXC card slotTwo Thunderbolt ports (up to 10 Gbps) Apple Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter

(sold separately) Two USB 3 ports (up to 5 Gbps) Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

(sold separately) HDMI port Headphone port

Connections and Expansions



Line voltage: 100V to 240V AC Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C) Storage temperature: –13° to 113° F (–24° to 45° C) Relative humidity: 0% to 90% noncondensingMaximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet Maximum storage altitude: 15,000 feet Maximum shipping altitude: 35,000 feet

Electrical and Operating Requirements

Up to 7 hours wireless web Up to 30 days standby time Built‐in 95‐watt‐hour lithium‐polymer battery 85W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter with cable management system;MagSafe 2 power port

Up to 7 hours wireless web Up to 30 days standby time Built‐in 74‐watt‐hour lithium‐polymer battery 60W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter with cable management system;MagSafe 2 power port

Battery and Power


Inside MacBook Pro



SK HynixH5TC2GB83CFR‐PBA

DDR3L‐1600

Intel 3rd generation Core i7 processor

Mobile Intel® HM77 Express Chipset(a.k.a Panther Point)

nVidia Geforce GT650M GPU

Intel DSL3510L (a.k.a Catus Ridge)

Connector for SATA SSD

Connector for WiFi/BT

Combo module

MXIC MX25L6406E

15‐inch with Retina display


Linear Technology LT3957

Cypress CY8C24794‐24LTXI

Cirrus 4206BCNZ

NXP CBTL05023BS

SK HynixH5GQ2H24AFR‐T2C

GDDR5Texas Instruments

HD3SS212

Renesas R4F2113

SK HynixH5TC2GB83CFR‐PBA

DDR3L‐1600

MAXIM MAX15119

Texas InstrumentsStellaris

LM4FS1AH

NXP CBTL02043A

SMSC USB2512B

Texas InstrumentsTPS51980

Texas InstrumentsCD3210



Broadcom BCM20702

Broadcom BCM4331

Parade PS8401A

Broadcom BCM57100



HD Audio codecCirrus 4206BCNZCirrus Logic

▼Audio

System power management controllerR4F2113Renesas

▼EC

Gigabit Ethernet + Memory Card reader controllerBCM57100

‧WiFi:Broadcom BCM4331, Single‐Chip 802.11n Dual‐Band 3x3 Wireless Solution

‧Bluetooth:Broadcom BCM20702, Single‐Chip Bluetooth® 4.0 HCI Solution with Bluetooth LowEnergy (BLE) Support

BCM94331CSAX WiFi/BT combo moduleBroadcom

▼Communication

GPUGeForce GT 650MnVidia

Integrated GFX in the 3rd generation Core i series CPU.Intel HD 4000Intel

▼Graphics

Intel PCH

Mobile Intel® HM77 Express Chipset(Intel® BD82HM77 PCH)PCN/MDDS: SLJ8C(a.k.a Panther Point)

Intel

▼Chipset

Video meory for nVidia PCIe GPUGDDR5(SK Hynix H5GQ2H24AFR‐T2C)

System/video memory, up to 16GBDDR3L‐1600 memory on board(SK Hynix H5TC2GB83CFR‐PBA)

SK Hynix

▼Memory

Processor + Intel HD 4000 graphicsIntel 3rd generation Core i7 processorIntel

▼Processor

FunctionDeviceManufacturer



Complete DDR2, DDR3 and DDR3L Memory Power Solution Synchronous Buck ControllerTPS51916

USB2.0 camera interface ICVC0358VMICRO

Multiplexer/demultiplexer switch chip for DisplayPort v1.2 signals and the control signals of a 10 Gbit/s channel(Thunderbolt Switch)

CBTL05023BS

Two differential channel, 2‐to‐1 multiplexer/demultiplexer switches for PCI Express Gen3 or other high‐speed serial interface applications.

CBTL02043ANXP Semiconductor

Inverting converterLT3957Linear Technology

Apple‐specific IMVP7 CPU/GPU power controllerMAX15119MAXIM

Serial flashMX25L6406EMXIC

HDMI repeaterPS8401AParade

Intel Thunderbolt controllerDSL3510LIntel

‧High‐speed passive switch capable of switching two full DisplayPort 4 lane portsfrom one of two sources to one target location in an application.

‧For DisplayPort Applications that HD3SS212 also supports switching of theAuxiliary (AUX) and Hot Plug Detect (HPD) signals.

HD3SS212

MicrocontrollerStellaris LM4FS1AH

CD3210

Dual channel power switchTPS2561

Synchronous buck controllerTPS51980Texas Instruments

USB 2.0 Hub ControllerUSB2512B SMSC

PSoC® Programmable System‐on‐Chip™CY8C24794‐24LTXICypress

▼Others

Touch pad controllerBCM5976Broadcom

▼User Inputs




SK HynixH5TC2GB83MFR‐PBADDR3L‐1600 memory

Intel 3rd generation Core i7 processor Mobile Intel® QS77 Express Chipset

(a.k.a Panther Point)

Intel DSL3510L (a.k.a Catus Ridge)

Texas Instruments58872D



Linear Technology LT3957Cypress

CY8C24794‐24LTXI Cirrus 4206BCNZ

NXP CBTL05023BS

SK HynixH5TC2GB83MFR‐PBA

DDR3L‐1600

MAXIM MAX15119

Texas InstrumentsStellaris

LM4FS1AH

SMSC USB2512B

Texas InstrumentsCD3210


Texas InstrumentsOPA2333

(Package Marking BQZ)



STMicroelectronics LIS331DLH



Broadcom BCM20702

Broadcom BCM4331



HD Audio codecCirrus 4206BCNZCirrus Logic

▼Audio

Gigabit Ethernet + Memory Card reader controllerBCM57100

‧WiFi:Broadcom BCM4331, Single‐Chip 802.11n Dual‐Band 3x3 Wireless Solution

‧BluetoothBroadcom BCM20702, Single‐Chip Bluetooth® 4.0 HCI Solution with Bluetooth LowEnergy (BLE) Support

BCM94331CSAX WiFi/BT combo moduleBroadcomm

▼Communication

Integrated GFX core in the 3rd generation Core i series CPU.Intel HD 4000Intel

▼Graphics

Intel PCH

Mobile Intel® QS77 Express Chipset(Intel® BD82QS77 PCH)PCN/MDDS: SLJ8B(a.k.a Panther Point)

Intel

▼Chipset

System/video memory, up to 8GB(x8 4Gbx8x2)DDR3L‐1600 memory on board(SK Hynix HH5TC4G83MFR, 4Gb DDR3L)

SK Hynix

▼Memory

Processor + Intel HD 4000 graphicsIntel 3rd generation Core i7 processorIntel

▼Processor




USB2.0 camera interface ICVC0358VMICRO

Multiplexer/demultiplexer switch chip for DisplayPort v1.2 signals and the control signals of a 10 Gbit/s channel(Thunderbolt Switch)

CBTL05023BSNXP Semiconductor

Inverting converterLT3957Linear Technology

Apple‐specific IMVP7 CPU/GPU power controllerMAX15119MAXIM

HDMI repeaterPS8401AParade

Intel Thunderbolt controllerDSL3510LIntel

58872D

1.8V, microPOWER CMOS OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS Zerø‐Drift SeriesOPA2333(Package Marking BQZ)

MicrocontrollerStellaris LM4FS1AH

Precision Adjustable Current‐Limited Power‐Distribution SwitchesTPS2557

CD3210

Complete DDR2, DDR3 and DDR3L Memory Power Solution Synchronous Buck ControllerTPS51916

Dual channel power switchTPS2561

Synchronous buck controllerTPS51980Texas Instruments

USB 2.0 Hub ControllerUSB2512B SMSC

PSoC® Programmable System‐on‐Chip™CY8C24794‐24LTXICypress

Accelerometer LIS331DLHSTMicroelectronics

▼Others

Touch pad controllerBCM5976Broadcom

▼User Inputs



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