Apple’s Spotlight Turns to Notebooks Event
posted by pylornsI’ll be updating today as we get more information as many of you know we’re waiting for the unveiling of an update to the Macbook Line.
If you check the apple store you’ll see that it’s currently down:
Pre-Conference Rumors and pictures here at apple insider.
Update picture from engadget
Gizmodo has a live feed of this as well.
Pic from Gizmodo:
Apple outgrew the market for 14 months, 17% Market Share now.
Verification notebooks are made from a solid piece of aluminum now. Start with 2.5LB piece of metal end up with a quarter pounder with cheese. er 1/3 Lb notebook base.
Now on to the nVidia chipset stuff.
GeForce 9400M - pretty fast… 3x to 8x performance increase
Whoa, multi-touch glass touchpad.
There is no button?! The buttons are setup in the software for customization, that is strange.
Run Down of Features:
Glass TouchPad
All aluminum
Connectors all on one side
Thinner Display
KB buttons are backlit
LED - Backlit display - less battery power
Magnetic latch
Sudden motion sensor
isight/mic (usual)
Mini display port that drives any type of connector with an adapter (sold separately of course…)
5 hours of battery life when using the Nvidia 9400 4 on the 9600
Price Points:
Macbook Pro:
15.4 Inch $1999 2.4 GHZ 2GB RAM
15.4 Inch $2499 4GB RAM
Update to the MacBook Air - new Nvidia 9400M 120GB drive, 128GB SSD and a Mini display port.
24″ Cinema Display LED
3 connectors
1920×1200 Resolution
$899 (I can buy a 24″ Benq display for $400. )
$999 for entry level macbook.
$1299 Better stuff
$1599 the bestest
New Macbook Aluminum Body
LED- Backlit
Nvidia Graphics
Multi-Touch Glass touchpad
Mini-Display Port
3d gaming on a Macbook is now possible - meaning you can get reasonable performance out of these things now.
Ok www.apple.com and check out the videos.
Tags: apple, event, mac, Macbook, notbooks, pro, spotlight, update
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October 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Hate to disagree, but gaming is actually quite possible on the current MacBook line. I’ve played WoW on mine (had to try it again out of curiosity), and Spore apparently plays quite well on the intel 3100 chipset. It’s not gonna handle Crysis any time soon (then again, neither will many notebooks), but it does alright.
October 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Right, but real 3d performance has not been attainable. I really don’t tackle too much with mine.