October 14, 2008
Live from Apple Town Hall: New MacBook Pro, $1999 or $2,499; new MacBook Air $1,799 or $2,499 w/SSD, $899 display
Recommend ThisFull flat-glass display to edges of bezel, LED backlight, glass trackpad, Display Port connector, Nvidia chip set and graphics controller (Nvidia GeForce 9400 Pro). Unibody saves half discrete structural parts over MacBook Pro.
New MacBook Pro: $1,999, 2GB of RAM, 256MB of graphics RAM; $2,499 4GB of RAM, 512MB of graphics RAM
$1,799 MacBook Air: 120GB hard drive, Nvidia 9400M, 128GB SSD (solid-state drive) option, Display Port, kick-up graphics controller Nvidia 9600M GT
Steve: "Hundreds of people have worked on this for many, many, many months."
Steve passed around single-machined unibody.
Hybrid graphics: 9400M for five hours of battery life, 9600M GT discrete GPU w/up to 512MB of display RAM. Both included in every model.
Ports: Dual USB, slot-load DVD, FireWire 800, analog/digital audio in and out.
First MacBook Pro to support SSD. Access battery and hard drive from bottom panel.
MacBook Pro shipping today. MacBook Air shipping November.
New 24-inch LED backlit Cinema Display. 1,920x1,200, iSight, stereo speakers, MagSafe charge connect to charge notebook. $899, ship in November.
Tom Yager writes InfoWorld's Mobile Edge blog.
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