Apple Notebook Updates

Just because Dan’s away doesn’t mean the Apple news stops! Oh no, my friends. Apple updated their notebooks today, here are the details.

General

Macbooks/Macbook Pros ship with built in iSight camera, MagSafe Power adapter, 802.11N, Bluetooth, USB 2.0, FireWire and built-in SuperDrive

Macbook Pros

Macbook Pros now come with multi-touch gesture support, allowing you to pinch, rotate, swipe and interact differently with photos in iPhoto or Aperture, as well as browsing pages in Safari.

New Macbook Pro has the latest Intel Core 2 Duo technology going up to a 2.6GHz processor, 6MB of shared L2 cache.

Macbooks

Black 2.4GHz model ships with 250GB 5400 rpm HD – this was previously available as an option.

So, just updates under the hood, no new laptops – but did we really expect anything right after the Macbook Air

danchoice

you get an extra usb port on the pro line.

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Ian

Figures, Mom just bought a Macbook last week. Maybe she’ll return the old one under the 14 day policy and pick up a new one. Then again, Mom doesn’t really care about having the latest and greatest.
Laydros

Grrr…. Seriously just bought a Macbook on Saturday. I did my homework to make sure it wasn’t the end of the product cycle and everything.
http://www.katwa-consulting.org dedko

Meh… here in Euroland, the graphics cards have a max of 256MB. Which kinda sucks big time. :o(
PJ

Aww, I want a video card for my current macbook. Argh! I need even faster guild wars :P
Justin

I thought the multi touch on the macbook air was a bit annoying in store. I go to click on iTunes and I resize the icons instead : \ swipe was handy though.
http://loquent.blogspot.com lo

I was hoping for the multitouch for the MacBooks too.
http://petehindle.com Pete

I remember when the iBook was a G3 processor, and it was just so far behind the pro-series stuff that it wasn’t funny. It would have been simple to put the multi-touch into the Macbook, not least stop offering a DVD ‘combo’ drive and just put a writer in there.