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Apple Updates MacBook and MacBook Pro Laptops

by Thomas Houston on February 26, 2008 at 10:07 AM



Following months of rumors, Apple finally upgraded its two main laptop lines with this morning's announcement of updates to both the MacBook and the high-end MacBook Pro line of laptops.

The new MacBook Pros have a larger, multi-touch mousepad similar to the one found in the MacBook Air and iPhone. While the exterior design looks much the same, the MacBook Pro line received several important hardware updates: New Penryn Intel mobile chips running as` fast as 2.6-GHz (perfect for video editing, gaming and other processor-intensive tasks), faster NVIDIA graphics cards (smoother video, gameplay and visual effects), LED backlighting (crisper, brighter colors), and increased memory and storage (great for storing movies, photos and music). It's good to see speed bumps and greater storage capacity on the entry-level the MacBooks, but we wish Apple had added multi-touch to the new models.

Available now, the MacBooks begin at $1099 and the MacBook Pros start at $1999.

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