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Apple Notebook Updates

Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Geeky, News, Random, Tech by Evan at 9:55 am

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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

  • All Macs Ship with Leopard OS, iLife ‘08
  • 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.
  • Illuminated Keyboard with ambient light sensor that auto-adjusts brightness
  • New Macbook Pro has the latest Intel Core 2 Duo technology going up to a 2.6GHz processor, 6MB of shared L2 cache.
  • Up to 4GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
  • Up to 300GB HD
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with up to 512MB video memory

Macbooks

  • Faster Processors available - 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz
  • 120GB or 160GB 5400rpm HDs
  • Black 2.4GHz model ships with 250GB 5400 rpm HD - this was previously available as an option.
  • Black Macbook ships with 2GB standard.
  • Up to 4GB memory on all Macbooks

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

8 Comments, Comment or Trackback

  1. danchoice

    you get an extra usb port on the pro line.

    d

    Feb 26th, 2008

  2. 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.

    Feb 26th, 2008

  3. 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.

    Feb 26th, 2008

  4. dedko

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

    Feb 26th, 2008

  5. PJ

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

    Feb 27th, 2008

  6. 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.

    Feb 27th, 2008

  7. lo

    I was hoping for the multitouch for the MacBooks too.

    Feb 27th, 2008

  8. 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.

    Feb 28th, 2008

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