Just in time for Spring (although it feels a wee bit more like Summer right now in LA), Speck announces two new colors to their SeeThru soft-touch hard shell MacBook/MacBook Pro cases – hot pink and high noon yellow.

The SeeThru case is an easy to install/remove two-piece hard shell case design featuring:

• Rubberized exterior finish
• Durable ulta-thin profile
• Access to all ports and interfaces
• Rubberized feet
• Vents for heat dissipation

You can purchase the new colors now for $49.95 – either at http://www.speckproducts.com or at http://www.apple.com/

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Curious to see what the pre-beta build of Windows 7 would be like on a Mac system? Well the folks at PC Magazine/Gearlog did exactly this by installing the pre-beta build delivered at last week’s PDC on a new MacBook Pro system using Bootcamp. Unfortunately it appears the Mac drivers for Windows Vista did not help with Windows 7 as various features were not working including wireless networking, and mouseover preview. They’ve posted a video up on YouTube (shown below).

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Speck Products announces two new cases for the newly introduced Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro systems – the new Fitted fabric covered form fitting hard shell case, and the SeeThru durable polycarbonate plastic case.

First introduced for the Apple iPhone 3G, the new Fitted cases are soft to the touch yet have a hard inner casing, come in a variety of styles, and offer complete access to all controls and ports on the systems. Prices range from $69.95 to $99.95 with new styles and patterns to be announces seasonally.

The Speck SeeThru case comes in a variety of colors, utilizes a snap-on/off design, and protects the notebooks from scratches and bumps while providing full access to all controls and ports on the system. SeeThru comes with rubber feet to help keep the system in place on slippery surfaces. The Speck SeeThru case goes for $49.95.

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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

• $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

• $1799 model with GeForce 9400M, 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and 120GB HDD
• $2499 model with 1.86GHz processor, 128GB SSD

• $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

Various links of interest:

• Macworld coverage
• Engadget’s coverage
• Gizmodo’s Hands-On with MacBook Pro 2008

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