Here are the latest specs and photos of the new MacBook’s that are going to be announced later today.
Glass Track Pad (Multi Touch Support)
No Track Pad Button (Double Tap and Gestures)
Glossy Screen (No matte option)
NVIDIA Graphics Chips
New Aluminum Case (except for the white 13″)
There was allot of buzz and hope surrounding rumors that Apple will be refreshing its’ line of MacBook’s and maybe even making a few additions to its notebook family. Apple confirmed these rumors yesterday by finally making the October 14th 2008 Event official. The Cupertino Apple campus Town Hall event is limited to selected media and guests and the invite says “The spotlight turns to Notebooks” which is a clear indication that this event is all about notebooks and the MacBook family.
There are rumors that Apple may finally introduce a sub $1000 USD notebook to compete with Dell, HP and others who have control of the sub $1000 notebook market. There are indications that Apple may introduce a line of notebooks that range in price from $800-$3100 USD.
There are allot of rumors based on the events leaked code name for the star of the show, “the Brick”, and what it could be. Some are speculating that it is a new technique for carving the MacBook casings from one piece of aluminium, doing away with allot of seams, screws and less pieces to the notebook. Others speculated that this may be the code name for a new Touch Tablet or even a new AppleTV/Mac Mini crossbreeed. In the end, we’ll only have to wait until next Tuesday to find out. Below are a couple photos of the supposed new MacBook ‘Brick’.
Looks like the first leaked photo of the new MacBook Pro has found it’s way onto the internet. The leaked photo is presumably the new MacBook (pro maybe) and it sports the new MacBook Air styling, and iMac screen trim, tying the two Apple lines together.
Most interestingly is the touchpad, it seems to be glass and looks like it has the dock located in it. Could it be Apple is using the same touchpad and screen as the iPhone/Touch as the trackpad on its’ new line of MacBooks?
While the Let’s Yawn - I mean - Rock event yesterday was big and everything, besides the iPods and iTunes and little if any news about an iPhone/Touch 2.1 update, allot of people were expecting allot more. There have been allot of rumors recently about Apple getting reading to launch a Multi Touch enabled MacBook, but there was no news outside of the iTunes, iPods/Touch updates.
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber reports that according to his sources Apple is planning another event on October 14th just for its laptop line. Ahh, hopefully we will see some new faster aluminium MacBooks, a new faster thinner lighter MacBook Pro, an updated MacBook Air with a faster processor and 120GB HDD (same as the new iPod Classic). Please can I haz?
The arrival and announcement of the 3G iPhone is imminent as the June 9th WWDC 2008 comes close. (only a couple weeks away)
With that in mind, every news blog and fan boy have been monitoring every channel of information to sniff through the matrix for anything that could lead to the BIG story about the 3G iPhone.
Import Genius is reporting that Apple Inc and its shipping and logistics partners have imported 188 containers from Hon Hai Precision Corp. and Quanta Computer, China that have the contents listed as Electric Computers in the shipping manifests.
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The arrival and announcement of the 3G iPhone is imminent as the June 9th WWDC 2008 comes close. (only a couple weeks away)
