Upgraded system rumored to hit the shelves this October

Jul 11, 2012 08:16 GMT  ·  By

A benchmark unearthed from Geekbench logs in late June for an unreleased “MacBookPro10,2” model suggests Apple could be on track to release a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display.

Analyzed by AppleInsider, the benchmark shows a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8 Build 12A2056. The machine is equipped with an Intel Core i7-3520M Ivy Bridge processor running at 2.9 GHz.

The Geekbench score of 7806 is below the score of 10999 obtained by the new 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pro, but higher than the scores of around 5000 earned by 13-inch MacBook Pros shipped in early 2011. In other words, this is an upgraded machine that hasn’t yet been released. The test machine is said to have 4GB of DDR3 RAM clocked at 1600 megahertz.

DigiTimes reported this week that Apple could be on track to launch this system in October.