Please recommend between Macbook pro retina and non-retina.

I need to buy Macbook pro 13 but confused between Retina & non-retina. My main use is internet browsing, watching movies, & email (movies with mainly bluray) So what would you recommend? Does the non retina plays movies (bluray) with good quality?

A BluRay movie is only 1920x1080 pixels at most. Any Mac display would show it just fine - the Retina display doesn't give you any advantage. As the previous poster pointed out, though, you need a BluRay player connected, and software from MacGo. It actually works pretty well in my experience.
http://www.macblurayplayer.com/
The Retina display is great for displaying high resolution photos, but movies are much lower resolution. Email and Internet won't benefit at all.
Matt

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2nd check the specs page
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
Then Bing/Google for reviews, Ars is always good but dozens have done one.
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-USB (2011: USB2.0 only, 2012: USB3.0)
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in pop there is a setting to leave the mail on the server ... I would have one main device that i used for managing .. ie. deleting email, and use the others for just reading. obviously the macbook would be the managing device ... but i have to say a laptop is not a great email manager because of the limited storage. alternatively you can start to use imap where all the email stays and is managed on the server, then your mobile-device-only lifestyle will work better and you do not have to worry about backups if your ISP takes care of that.
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your philosophy seems to be to stay mobile and light. i archive all my email forever ... at least anything I think is important or personal. just a different workflow i guess. in future i will move my mail folders to a readynas box with 12TB storage because of the size of multimedia is going to be getting bigger and bigger. Goggle's email already allows 20MB emails.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht6008
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And
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http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/13-inch-macbook-pro-vs-13-inch-macbook-pr o-with-retina/#!M6CRphttp://

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Which is the meaning of “MFR # Z0RC” ?
I hope your answer!
Thx

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