new apple macbook systems

Here’s the latest on what you need to know about Apple’s “Spotlight turns to notebooks” event:

  • New notebooks will take a page from the MacBook Air construction. Single unibody aluminum construction.
  • Yes, Apple is using NVIDIA chipsets over Intel chipsets for the next generation notebooks. The chipset is the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M which combines your traditional motherboard chipset with a graphics core on a single die. 70 percent goes to the GPU and the rest goes to the chipset functionality. 55 percent performance improvement over the current NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT in the current MacBook Pro.
  • New multi-touch glass trackpad which is 39 percent larger than before. Added up to four finger gesture support
  • New MacBook Pro system features
  • Glass instant-on LED displays
  • All connectors on the left hand side
  • Precision aluminum unibody enclosure
  • NVIDIA chipset/graphics – NVIDIA GeForce 9400M built right into the Pro
  • multi-touch glass trackpad
  • mini display port connector
  • backlit keyboards
  • magnetic latch
  • motion sensor
  • speakers
  • iSight
  • slot load SuperDrive
  • FireWire 800
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • microphone
  • Optional solid state drives
  • Measures 0.95 inches thick
  • Oh yeah – you can also add a GeForce 9600M GT GPU into the MacBook Pro for additional performance. 5 hours of battery life with the 9400M and 4 hours of battery life with the 9600M GT
  • Two models for MacBook Pros:
    • $1999 model with a 15.4 inch LED backlit display, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, Both NVIDIA GPUs, 250GB HDD, Slot-loading SuperDrive
    • $2499 model with a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB RAM, 512MB on the NVIDIA 9600M GT, 320GB HDD – all shipping today with the stores getting these tomorrow
  • MacBook Air receives an update also – new model to receive NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 120GB HDD with option for 128GB SSD, new mini display port. Two models now:
    • $1799 model with GeForce 9400M, 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and 120GB HDD
    • $2499 model with 1.86GHz processor, 128GB SSD
  • New 24 inch LED Cinema Display with 1900 x 1200 display, built-in iSight camera, microphone, stereo speakers, three port USB 2.0 hub. Available in November
  • Original MacBook models will be reduced from $1099 to $999
  • New MacBook models feature corner to corner glass, precision aluminum uni-body enclosure, LED display, next generation graphics, multi-touch glass touchpad, mini display port connector etc
  • Two new MacBook models which fit between the old MacBook and the new MacBook Pro systems:
    • $1299 – 13.3 inch display, 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, GeForce 9400M graphics, 160GB HDD, slot loading SuperDrive
    • $1599 – 2.4GHz processor, 250GB HDD, backlit keyboard

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