Is the 13-Inch Apple MacBook Pro With Retina Display Worth It? The video above does a good job of going into all the features and weighing them versus the overall cost. Apple announced a slew of new products, including the new iPad Mini, which gets it ready for a potentially robust holiday season.

It’s still stunning to think of how far Apple has come over the years. The Steve Jobs story is well known, and Apple has really made a big difference in people’s lives. Just think back to what life was like even before desktop publishing was available. Apple revolutionized industries like advertising even before Steve Jobs made his Apple comeback in the late 1990s. Of course that’s very hard for younger readers to fathom – a world without personal computers or Apples at all. So many businesses today are a direct offshoot from those innovations. Things we take for granted like printing out photos, reports and brochures we create on our Macs were just a pipe dream years ago, let alone the ability to work with an online printing company today. Now you can use your attached printer, or get more sophisticated options with things like UPrinting cheap brochure printing. The creativity and competition this has inspired is staggering.

Of course there are always new gadgets, and it sometimes takes a small fortune to keep up, so do your research on the new MacBook Pro before buying one.