Audio Port on a MacBook Pro Retina

I'm thinking of buying a new MacBook Pro with retina. I want to be sure that the audio port works for input as well. Is there someone who bought one recently who can confirm this for me? Thanks.

It's a headphone or headset jack. It is not an audio input.

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YES, it is SO worth it. The big expense is the 512G flash SSD. Besides being more shock resistant, not subject to fragmentation, its blankty blankaty FAST! So many programs load twice as fast. (I am running windows in Parallels, a huge diff. in start up speed). Video editing SO much faster. That is a huge part of the cost. The rest is the lovely screen. When I picked mine up yesterday (Tuesday) opened it in the apple store, put it next to the current 15" MBP and there is a noticeable improvement including less glare.
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