MacBookPro10,2

Posted on 10 Jul 2012 by John Poole

An interesting Geekbench 2 result for a Mac with an unfamiliar model identifier appeared on the Geekbench Browser late last month. Similar to other unknown Macs that have appeared on the Geekbench Browser there has been a lot of speculation as to whether this result is an unreleased Mac or a clever forgery.

Like those other unknown Macs I believe this result is legitimate. Like the other results, the system information is quite consistent and, as MacRumors states, the Mac uses a new motherboard that was referenced in early Mountain Lion builds but has not yet been seen in a production Mac.

What's also interesting about this result is that is the model identifier itself. Here are the model identifiers for the current MacBook Pro lineup:

	13-inch	15-inch
Regular Display	MacBookPro9,2	MacBookPro9,1
Retina Display	?	MacBookPro10,1

If this unknown model identifier, MacBookPro10,2, follows this pattern then that means the Geekbench 2 result is from an unreleased 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. While model identifiers tend to change between lineups, they tend to be consistent within the same lineup. I believe that we'll see an Ivy Bridge 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro sooner rather than later.

John Poole is the founder of Primate Labs and lives in Toronto, Ontario with his wife Deborah. You can find John on Twitter or Google+.