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Apple Releases New Notebooks

by Jarrett Martineau | October 14, 2008 at 09:37 am

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has just unveiled the newly re-engineered and re-designed MacBook Pro -- which appears to be lighter, faster, thinner, and sleeker than ever before -- all things we've come to expect from Apple's annual hardware upgrades.

Here are some of the specs, as compiled and liveblogged by Gizmodo, Apple Insider, and Engadget.

The latest MacBook Pros are shipping today and will be available in stores on Wednesday.

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New MacBook Pro: full glass screen like the iMac, thin display, all I/O ports on one side, instant-on LED display, mini DisplayPort connector. Unibody enclosure made from one piece of aluminum. Jobs is passing around a chassis to the crowd.

The new MacBooks will feature a new glass multi-touch trackpad with a 39 percent larger tracking area. The entire trackpad acts as the button.

"We've added a new chip from NVIDIA -- the 9600M GT, 32 graphics cores, we're including both the 9400 as integrated graphics, or choose the 9600M for big graphic performance. 5 hours of battery on the 9400, 4 on the 9600."

The ports on the new MacBook Pro are from left to right: Magsafe, Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire 800, two USB ports, a Mini DisplayPort, Audio In/Out (analog and optical digital), ExpressCard 34, and a battery indicator..

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hadsie

at 09:54 on October 14th, 2008

I'm not personally that impressed with the upgrades to the mbp or the air, but the new macbook is starting to look a lot better (feature wise, not looks wise ;) ). The aluminum case and more powerful graphics card.

From the pictures the new pro's look way uglier. What gives?

chowdawg

at 10:03 on October 14th, 2008

Pretty slick.

JeffHuang

at 10:41 on October 14th, 2008

Looks good. I don't mind trading in for a new one

smokeonit

at 10:46 on October 14th, 2008

the new macbooks are replacing the smaller macbook pros!

kayakkid613

at 14:47 on October 14th, 2008

you can use the photo

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Jordan Yerman

at 04:16 on October 15th, 2008

And, as with each case upgrade, less and less stuff comes in the box. This time, it's the VGA adaptor: not only has it been shifted to yet another proprietary format, but it's no longer included. Seriously annoying: Apple's stuff is made under the same factory conditions as PCs, and with the same components since the switch to Intel- if we're gonna be paying double the price of a PC, just give us the free VGA adapter!