Yesterday Apple held a special media event to announce the long awaited MacBook and MacBook Pro updates—and boy does it look like it was worth the wait! We will be covering these products in a little more detail soon, but for now, here’s the run down of what Steve introduced during the media event.
MacBook Pros
The new MacBook Pro is stunning. The new version Apple’s professional notebook packs a wallop, loaded with tons of new features and technology that could make even the most conservative notebook buyer become a bleeding edge early adopter. Redesigned from the ground up, the MacBook Pro is one solid piece of aluminum that makes the notebook thin, light, and most importantly, durable. The MacBook Pro ships with:
- Seamless 15-inch LED-backlit display
- Advanced NVIDIA 9600M GT graphics chip
- All-new, smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad with up to 4-finger recognition for switching through apps and open windows
- Upgraded battery with up to 5 hours of wireless productivity
- Reduced environmental impact as well as an EPEAT Gold rating
The 17″ models were not introduced yesterday, but the word on the street is that they will arrive at Apple stores sometime in the early part of 2009.
MacBooks
Don’t worry, Apple wouldn’t dare leave out the “pro-sumers” with this upgrade. The new MacBook is the incredibly capable little brother of the MacBook Pro and in more ways than one. They too are sculpted out of one solid piece of aluminum to create a lighter, thinner and stronger “unibody” that should make it a lot easier to take on the go. The new MacBook has a ton of features too, most of which you’d probably only expect to find in the MacBook Pro. Some of these features include:
- Seamless 13.3-inch LED-backlit display
- Advanced NVIDIA 9400M graphics chip
- All-new, smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad
- Upgraded battery with up to 5 hours of wireless productivity
- Reduced environmental impact as well as an EPEAT Gold rating
There are two available models:
- 2.0 Intel Core 2 Duo / 2GB RAM / 160GB HD - $1,299.00
- 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo / 2GB RAM / 250GB HD - $1,599.00
24″ Apple LED Cinema Display
As we thought, Steve introduced an all-new Apple Cinema display yesterday that will be available in November. This is honestly one of the most beautiful displays we’ve ever seen (and not just because it’s from Apple). There are some well-thought-out features included in the displays, including:
- 24″ Backlit-LED technology for the best picture possible
- Integrated power cord for charging your MacBook without it’s included power adapter
- Built-in iSight camera, mic, and speakers (possibly the best part!)
These new products are incredible and we can’t wait to get our grubby little hands on them. The MacBooks and MacBook Pros should be available for viewing (and more importantly purchasing) today and we can expect the LED Cinema Display sometime in November. My holiday wish list just got a little longer!
Sorry, but I can’t follow you: All new prdoucts have got a shiny, “glossy” display… I can’t work with that!
You know, I thought that too before getting my 13″ MacBook (older, black version). It really isn’t as bad as you would think. Sometimes it’s difficult, but for the most part, I am able to adjust the viewing angle of the screen so that the light reflection isn’t a factor.
But I will be interested in seeing how the new Cinema Display looks under Apple’s store lights. It might be a little harder to control the reflection there…
it really isn’t as bad as you would think. Sometimes it’s difficult, but for the most part, I am able to adjust the viewing angle of the screen so that the light reflection isn’t a factor.
sorry to bother you but: “sometimes it s difficult” is definitively NOT an option for me. “it really isn´t as bad as you would think” means “ok, it is bad but i can live with it because i would like to have an apple computer”?
are you all nuts? better send jobs a mail with the question if his designers went into an asylum to get help by building the new macbooks and mbps. do not buy products that are just more or less ok lacking required usability. we are the users, we we can decide what we would like to buy.
mirroring, refractions, poor color matching, more or less ok… i thought we were talking about apple and not dell or microsoft products?
I really dislike the glass screens and must say the black border around the cinema display looks gaudy and makes the aluminum stand stick out like a sore thumb. I know I haven’t seen it in person but yikes. I also heard the laptops don’t have buttons and one taps the trackpad instead? I’ve always hated that feature on PCs so hope it works better; I’m sure it does but still.
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I don’t think the glossy screen will be a deal breaker, but I need to see it in the store before I make that call.
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