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New Apple stuff today
Fosfor —
... As you might now Apple is hosting a big event today where they will present some new products. We will do an update about this tonight but if you want to follow the event ‘live’ here’s a couple of sources:
Engadget
Gizmodo
Macworld
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Here's where to follow the Apple Notebook keynote live. As in, not here.
Boing Boing Gadgets —
• Engadget – Standard blog post, reverse chronological, with pictures. Does not autorefresh.
• Gizmodo – Auto-refreshing web page with pictures.
• MacRumors – A Twitter feed.
• Ars Technica – A regular blog post.
• Macworld – A regular blog post. Macworld's post-mortems tends to be very well written.
• Technologizer – A regular blog post. I've never followed one of McCracken's liveblogs, so I'm looking forward to seeing how he ...
Apple Event Coverage
I4U News —
... is filming these events anyway, but only releases the video after the event. The highlights of rumored new things to be found in the new Apple laptops include, all aluminum cases (brick), two NVIDIA GPUs in MacBook Pro, glass multi-touch trackpad with no buttons, and possibly (but unlikely) a sub $1,000 MacBook. As reported earlier the Apple Store is already down . Anyway to get the news about the new MacBooks as early as possible visit either one of the sites below: Engadget Gizmodo Arstechnica MacWorld SlashGear Posted on Tue, 14 Oct ...
Apple’s Steve Jobs: we’ve got some exciting new notebooks
PR News: —
Cell phones have now been silenced and people have got to their seats, as people sit down, they see Steve Jobs come to the stage.
Jobs has said good morning to all, he then said that everyone know that today is about notebooks, he added that Apple have some exciting new notebooks.
Tim Cook has taken to the stage and is talking about their old range at the moment, as well as going on to other topics, like Vista, that made the Audience laugh.
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New Apple MacBook and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 M Chipset and GPU
PR News: —
... that we can expect in the Apple MacBook’s. Steve Jobs has been explaining it in detail.
The first hardware change is the graphics, Apple have added a new NVIDIA — the 9600M GT. This GPU has a 32 graphics core. You will have the choice of the 9400 as integrated graphics, or the 9600M for better graphic performance.
If choosing the 9400, the battery life will be about 5 hours; The 9600 GPU will offer you up to 4 hours of battery life.
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New Generation MacBook: Like Pro but Smaller
PR News: —
... said that people have been asking for a metal enclosure, as well as a LED backlit display and a faster graphics.
Jobs thinks that Apple have figured a way how to bring this much wanted features to the new MacBook line.
So Apple have given us a new MacBook that has the same casing, they have given us that LED backlit display, oh yes and that cool looking glass trackpad. The new notebook seems to have the lot, all packed into that small casing.
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Apple’s newest notebooks – the new MacBook Pro and the MacBook Mini
Krunker —
... 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
Various links of interest:
Macworld coverage
Engadget’s coverage
Gizmodo’s Hands-On with MacBook Pro 2008
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Making MacBooks from giant sheets of aluminum
MAKE Magazine —
... - the cool thing (I think) is Apple showed videos of how their new laptops are made from carving them out of sheets of aluminum - how things are made (and why) is becoming more important and the lead story once everything else was commodified in the industry. There's great coverage on Engadget and ...
Apple Notebook Event and Live Blog Round-Up
PR News: —
... The Multitouch Glass Trackpad is also another new feature; it has a 33 percent larger tracking area. Apple have optimized the friction on the glass, the big change is, there is no button, the whole of the trackpad acts as a button.
The new MacBook and MacBook Pro’s are made from Aluminum and come with a backlit keyboard. The Air has also been updated; the 9400M in the Air comes with a 120GB hard drive, as well as an option and a mini display port.
For a full round up of the Apple event
The Notebook World
Geek In Disguise —
... Like most of the rest of the web I watched the Apple Macbook announcements this evening albeit after a fine pint of Guinness in London village. After all is said and done (which will take a while in the blogosphere bubble I live in) the graph above tells a story in itself. ...
More Bad News for Blu-Ray
Today @ PC World —
... Steve Jobs expressed concerns about including the Blu-ray format in Apple products like the new MacBook. OK, that's the sugar-coated version of it. What Jobs actually said was that Blu-ray is "just a bag of hurt," and that he's still waiting until "Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace." But wait, didn't ...
