The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina now starts US$1,499, or US$200 less than before. The higher-capacity 256GB version costs US$1,699, or US$300 cheaper than the original price. The processor clock speed also gets boosted to 2.6 gigahertz from 2.5GHz.
The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina gets a speed boost, with the lower-end version getting its clock speed bumped up to 2.4GHz from 2.3GHz, and the higher-end version getting bumped up to 2.7GHz quad-core processor from 2.6GHz, as well as double the RAM at 16 gigabytes.
The line of MacBook Pros with Retina displays have always been a higher-end item that fewer consumers could buy. The starting 13-inch MacBook Pro is significantly less at US$1,199. With its own iPad sales cutting into Mac revenue, Apple is likely looking to goose interest with a minor price cut and spec upgrade.
Apple also cut the price of its high-end MacBook Air. The 256GB version now costs US$1,399, or US$100 less than the previous price.
The prices have yet to take effect on Apple's Web site, but will change later today.
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