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Apple Announces New MacBook, Pro, Air

Posted by kdawson on from the must-have dept.

Steve Jobs just got through announcing new MacBook lines in Cupertino. The MacBook, the Pro, and the Air all got revved. The old line of plastic-body MacBooks drops in price by $100, to $999. The new MacBooks have a metal body and multi-touch trackpad, just like the new Pros. The Pro features two NVidia graphics chips. Quoting Jobs: "With the 9400M, you get 5 hours of battery life, with the 9600M GT you get four hours of battery life. You choose." In summary: "We're building both [MacBook and Pro] in a whole new way. From a slab of aluminum to a notebook. New graphics. New trackpad, the best we've ever built. And LED-backlit displays that are far brighter, instant on, far more environmentally responsible." They are shipping today and should be in stores tomorrow. Oh, and one more thing: Steve's blood pressure is 110/70.

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  1. Uneven coverage? by b96miata · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are we going to start seeing frontpage articles here on slashdot when all the other notebook manufacturers come out with new models?

    Please, be the one site that doesn't feed into the "omg apple news must be reported WITHIN 30 SECONDS" mentality. It's a glorified press release. With all the crap apple as a company pulls that's anti-developer and anti-consumer, does /. really need to be yet another extension of their marketing dept?

    1. Re:Uneven coverage? by manekineko2 · · Score: 0, Troll

      I'm not so sure number of comments is a good metric of justification to be on the front page. By that rationale, everytime Slashdot posts some story about snake oil free energy (see e.g. this), and it gets 800 replies talking about how the article is total trash, Slashdot has no editorial standards, and that even the editors of /. apparently don't read or think about the articles before publishing, those posts justify their place on the frontpage too.

      Of course, Slashdot continues to post all of this, and the ad money continues to flow in from all the commentators, so maybe you're right. Maybe traffic is the only metric that matters.

  2. So what? by Carson+Napier · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple cracks me up! Steve Jobs is like some messiah that comes out to the mountain top every so often to give a sermon and everything he says and does is perfect and right and never questioned!! br> For me, Apple is too "look at me I'm different". Right. Different, anlong with all the other fanboyz.
    I can't say I'm that excited about anything new here. This doeesn't make me want to run out and drop a grand on a laptop... sorry.
    By the way, Steve Jobs needs to get some new clothes!!

    --
    If I wanted my mind made up for me, I'd do it myself!!
  3. No HDMI? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    sucky sucky

  4. Balony by PenGun · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Oh, and one more thing: Steve's blood pressure is 110/70."

      I really doubt it. /Digs out meter. Mine goes from 112/65 to 120/75 in a normal day. It changes constantly ... noone has a "blood pressure".

      He's just a baby anyway, 10 years younger than me. I'm probably in better shape but then I use Lunix exclusively, none of that evil DRM stuff to clog my arteries.