The new MacBooks

Turns out the rumor mill was correct this time. The October 14th Apple event yielded some brand new products (or nice updates to products). There were updates to the whole product line of Apple notebooks; MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Personally I’d really like to get the MacBook Air (as I like to be mobile); but the MacBook and the Pro version of it looks jummy as well. The new production technology that was predicted turned out to be correct. The notebooks are made out of a brick of aluminium; making them quite a bit more durable.

When it comes to the MacBook, it has got a brand new design. Aluminium, as mentioned above, is the main body. It features a glossy screen with a black border around it. Looking very nice. Also, the mouse trackpad has lost it’s buttons and now use virtual buttons in addition to gestures as the MacBook has. The graphics card, that was previously an on-board Intel gaphics chip, has been updated to a (5 times more) beefier NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chip which should make the MacBook a much better machine for simple gaming.

The MacBook Pro has been updated aswell. The design is the same as the MacBook, with all the features mentioned above, except the Pro got a larger screen. MacBook Pro also features 2 (!) graphics chips; one of them is the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chip as in the Macbook, the other one a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT which gives top performance for graphical intensive tasks. You will be able to choose between the two graphics card, where the latter one will provide you with 4 hours of battery life and the first one 5 hours.

Last, but not least, the MacBook Air received an update. Designwise the machine is the same, but the graphics card has been updated; in addition to the hard drive and CPU that has received a storage/speed bump aswell.

Apple also announced a new monitor, the 24″ LED Cinema Display. Featuring easy connections to the MacBook line of products it is assured to be a hit. Except the price which is a huge hit to the wallet…

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