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MacBook Announcement Expected on Tuesday
wwhsgrad2002 writes "Both ThinkSecret and Apple Insider are reporting that Apple could hold a press conference as early as Tuesday, May 9th, to announce their new line of MacBooks. The laptop will be the Intel-based successor to the company's popular iBook line. The 13.3-inch widescreen MacBook is expected to sport Core Duo processors from Intel Corp and pack novelties such as a completely magnetic latching system, built in iSight video camera, and MagSafe power adapter. Additionally, each MacBook is expected to come bundled with Apple's Front Row and PhotoBooth software applications. A coding glitch with Apple's Web site has all but confirmed the MacBook moniker for the new consumer laptop."
...or will they get screaming hot like the MacBooks Pro do, thus preventing you from actually putting one on your lap?
You were shooting for score:5, Funny - right?
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Yay! It's YetAnotherAppleProductLaunch time. Why aren't we bored yet? Moore's Law should have been something like "Every eighteen months twice as many product launches will occur". You might be interested now, but will you still be interested when there are a thousand product launches a day? Sooner or later people will turn their attention to the more interesting genuine innovations which occur more and more regularly (but which will inevitably be surpassed by something else). Leave the who-makes-what in the past and concentrate on the inventors who make it all possible. It's scary to think how so few young people are aware of what is happening in front of them. The trend towards ever-faster technological innovation has sufficient credence now to at least acknowlege that humanity as a whole is going to drastically change during in even short lifetimes. Why are so few young people aware of how much things will change during their life? I think the problem is always that the previous generation instills their own expectations onto the next. Most parents can't quite get to grips with just how different their children's life will be. Or not, as it is conceivable that some people well into parenting age may have no idea what their life expectancy is likely to be. It will be interesting to witness the loss of appeal of consumer product launches as their frequency surpasses our ability to keep track of it, and to see where people's attention will then turn. I hope our society is mature enough to adapt and come out healthier as a result. But already we see increasing numbers of people turn to old reassurances: war, religious fundamentalism, commercial and territorial expansionism. And little wonder we have so many people medicating themselves 24 hours a day just to cope with the demands of modern life. I have to go now. I've heard AMD is about to announce a new chip...