Apple Updates MacBooks

October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Apple announced their latest lineup of notebooks that have a number of new improvements, the most exciting being the glass Multi-Touch trackpad.

The old trackpad has been replaced with a single pad. That’s right, no more clicker, which gives you more room to scroll on the new silky glass surface. Because of this new design, Apple has changed the way you move around on your computer.

To move about your MacBook, you, “Use two fingers to scroll up and down a page. Pinch to zoom in and out. Rotate an image with your fingertips. Swipe with three fingers to flip through your photo libraries. Swipe with four fingers to show your desktop, view all open windows, or switch applications. If you’re coming from a right-click world, you can right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area on the trackpad,” as told by Apple.

Apple also added a new keyboard. The MacBook Pro sports an aluminum keyboard curved to fit your fingers that’s illuminated as well.

Some other features are the new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M intergrated graphics processor, battery life up to 5 hours and a glossy LED-backlit display with a glass enclosure.

As for pricing, Apple has their first notebook for under $1000 – actually it’s $999. The new pricings for this lineup are as follows:

MacBook:
$1299. 13.3″ Glossy Display, 2.0GHz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 160GB HD.
$1599. 13.3″ Glossy Display, 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 250GB HD.

MacBook Pro:
$1999. 15.4″ Glossy Display, 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA 9400M + 9600M, 250GB HD.
$2499. 15.4″ Glossy Display, 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA 9400M + 9600M, 320GB HD.

Apple also introduced their first LED-based Cinema display. The screen size is 24″ and it comes with 3 USB 2.0 ports, built-in iSight, microphone and speaker system. This is going to set you back $900.

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