Apple To Reveal Thinner MacBook Pro at WDDC 2012?
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will be on June 11 in San Francisco. And it is now rumoured that Apple will be revealing a new thinner MacBook Pro running Intel Ivy Bridge chipset and also announce the release date for Mac OS X Mountain Lion, iCloud services and new IOS features.
Apple Releases Faster MacBook Pro With Thunderbolt
Apple unveiled its new line of MacBook Pro which is twice as fast as the previous generation, AMD Radeon HD graphics processors, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology and a new FaceTime® HD camera.
Thunderbolt, codename Light Peak, is a new high-speed PC connection technology that combines high-speed data transfer and a high-definition display on a single cable. Apple is the first to use Thunderbolt in the market. And this will probably replace USB 3.0.
From Apple press release:
Starting at $1,199 the new 13-inch MacBook Pro offers amazing value and performance in a compact design. The highly portable 13-inch MacBook Pro features Intel Core i5 and Core i7 dual-core processors up to 2.7 GHz and Intel HD Graphics 3000. The powerful 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models feature quad-core Core i7 processors up to 2.3 GHz and AMD Radeon HD graphics processors with up to 1GB of video memory for high performance gaming, pro video editing and graphics intensive applications.
New Apple MacBook Pro Out Soon
Apple will soon release the next iteration of MacBook Pro and this could come as early as next week. One of the new feature rumoured Apple will include in the new MBP is Intel’s new high-speed optical connector technology, dubbed Light Peak.
22 Megapixel Laptop Running On A MacBook Pro
Students from the University of Tromsø, Norway, created a 22 megapixel display wall using one old MacBook Pro. The display wall consists of 28 projectors and each has a resolution of 1024×768 pixels, totaling 7168×3072 pixels when the projectors are tiled together.
The PhD students also used Apple’s Mac OS X to handle the multiple displays.
Source: The 22 Megapixel Laptop
Apple Releases Faster MacBook Pro
It was only last week Apple announced iPhone OS 4, and now the company has updated their range of MacBook Pro with faster processors, better graphics and longer battery life.
Apple includes the faster Intel Core i5 and i7 in the larger MacBook Pro models. The machines are graced with a more powerful graphics processor GeForce 320M from Nvidia. The 13-inch MacBook Pro has a 10-hour built-in battery. Read the full press release after the jump. 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models, which start at $1,799 and $2,299 respectively. The 13-inch model, which starts at $1,199.
Apple Updates MacBook Pro With New Battery And SD Card
Apple has increased the specs of their MacBook Pro range of laptops adding li-polymer battery that offers up to seven hours of life, SD Card slot, 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and it passes the new Energy Star 5.0 specs for power efficiency.
Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing said, Across the line, all of our new MacBook Pro models now include Apple’s innovative built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life, while staying just as thin and light as before. Starting at just $1,199, the aluminum unibody MacBook Pro is more affordable than ever and sets a new standard for environmentally friendly notebook design.
Press Release: Apple Updates MacBook Pro Family with New Models & Innovative Built-in Battery for Up to 40 Percent Longer Battery Life
Macworld 2009: New 17-Inch MacBook Pro Unveiled
We have predicted Apple will release a new 17 inch unibody Apple MacBook Pro at this year’s MacWorld. Apple has now announced the new laptop with new built-in battery that delivers 8 hours of use & 1,000 recharges.
There are now two screen options, matte or gloss. The new not accessible battery is similar to MacBook Air which save space and has a new “adaptive” recharging technology.
Full press release after the jump.
Macworld 2009: 17 inch Unibody Apple MacBook Pro
A new 17 inch unibody Apple MacBook Pro will most likely be shown at this year’s MacWorld. The new laptop will come with a new type of battery that last longer than the current model but which isn’t easily removable.
Will the new 17 inch MBP have both matte and gloss screen?
Source: Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro to go Unibody, sans removable battery (Silver-Zinc replacement?)
Apple Reveals New MacBooks
Apple have finally revealed the new MacBook range with new precision aluminum unibody enclosure, ultrathin 15-inch LED-backlit display, high-performance NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics and a new smooth glass Multi-Touch trackpad. The new glass trackpad can do Multi-Touch gestures, including swipe, pinch, rotate, and the new four-finger swipe.
On the minus, Apple has dropped the Firewire 400 and the Mini-DVI port replaced by Mini DisplayPort.
Read more information on the press release after the jump.
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Apple Put A Spotlight On New Laptops
Apple has sent out invitations (“the spotlight turns to notebooks”) for next Tuesday’s press conference to reveal their new range of laptops. The rumour of a “brick” laptop constructed from a single block of metal with no screws has been running wild recently. On the other hand we have rumours of Apple introducing price reduced MacBooks. Time will tell and we will all know on October 14.
