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What reviewers said about the MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

1 review of this exact model; 1 of a sibling configuration (same chassis; a different chip or size, or the review does not state this Mac’s base chip with its CPU and GPU core counts), used for design topics only. Quotes are short, word for word, and each links to the article it came from. Every one was checked against that article on . MacIQ gives no score and no stars, and averages nothing.

Only 2 reviews could be used for this Mac, so this page is not offered to search engines. Nothing is added to make up the number.

What reviewers raise

A count of the reviews we quote on this page that have a quote on each topic, from the findings shown below. A review may say more on a topic than we quote, so it counts what is quoted here, not everything each review covers, and it says how often a topic is quoted, not what was said about it. Battery, performance and heat are counted over the 1 review of this exact model.

Where reviewers and Apple differ

No reviewer’s own figure on this page can be set beside an Apple claim for the same kind of test, so nothing is compared here.

The reviews

Newest first, in the order of the date each article prints (which may be an update date, not a first-publication date). Each quote links to its article; the date is the one the article prints, labelled as the article labels it. “Published” and “Updated” appear only where the article prints that word beside the date; “Dated” means the article prints that date with no label, so the date itself does not say whether it is the first publication or an update. A later update that an article mentions only in an editor’s note is not used as its date.

Macworld

Reviewed: 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display (mid 2014), 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, dual graphics (Intel Iris Pro and NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M)

This is a different configuration of the same chassis. Only its comments on design are quoted here; its battery, performance and heat findings belong to the chip it tested.

Ports

There’s one USB 3.0 on each side of the body, arguably rather frugal, and no ethernet port.

Macworld

Tested: Mid-2014 MacBook Pros with Retina display, all four standard models: 13-inch 2.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 and 2.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5; 15-inch 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 and 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7

Display

The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display sports a 15.4-inch IPS LED screen with a 2880-by-1800 resolution.