Enter faster MacBooks and Multi-Touch enabled MacBook Pros

Enter faster MacBooks and Multi-Touch enabled MacBook Pros
Posted on Feb. 26, ’08, 6:16 AM PT by Aayush Arya

Apple launched updated MacBooks and MacBook Pros today with faster processors and larger hard drives across the board. The new MacBooks come in 2.1 GHz and 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo configurations, up to 250GB of hard drive space and 2GB of RAM standard (except for the lowest configuration). The price remains the same and so does the screen, trackpad, design and, quite unfortunately, the combo drive in the cheapest MacBook.

*www.macuser.com/2008/02/26/MacBook%20Pro%20Multi-Touch.jpg

The new MacBook Pros boast of an even meatier upgrade. The standard configurations include 2.4 and 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 2GB of RAM, 200GB and 250GB hard drives, dual-layer SuperDrives and the NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT with 256 and 512 MB of onboard memory. Most importantly, these shiny new babies come with a Multi-Touch trackpad, à la the MacBook Air. We know a lot of people had been eagerly waiting for this, so they now have the chance to plunk $2000 or more for one of these. Read more...

[Via MacUser]

just chked this on engadget, so no sdk reports of it being delayed were true afterall

The new MBP looks an amazing product. If you're buying from the USA, the price difference for a similar product in India is almost negligible.

OK. This officially sucks.

The MacBooks don't ship with the Apple Remote anymore. Apple showing its money-hungry evil corporation side again.

iMav said:
just chked this on engadget, so no sdk reports of it being delayed were true afterall

February isn't over yet.

aryayush said:
OK. This officially sucks.

The MacBooks don't ship with the Apple Remote anymore. Apple showing its money-hungry evil corporation side again.

Whoa! Such strong statement from you! Yaar it shows that no business corporation(MS, Apple etc) is doing charity. They are shrewd businessmen.

Not giving it is one thing. Giving it for two years and then snatching it away just to rake in more money is just plain being greedy.

^^ hey they are giving u multi-touch :lol:

so they discontinued it, in the words of steve jobs - we feel that users dont want to own their apple remotes, everytime we went out to them they said that they dont want to own their apple remotes, so we decided to pull them off

damn. still 8600GT. why not 8700M GT ? Why not some newer more powerful card ?

It's a Mac, u don't need a powerful graphics card. Even a 8400GM is good enough to run that OS.

The configuration of Macbook is seriously flawed & unbalenced though.

I guess they use the hardware which is more than enough for the current OS X version and perhaps the next version too. People do not use a notebook for more than 2-3 years usually.

gx_saurav said:
It's a Mac, u don't need a powerful graphics card. Even a 8400GM is good enough to run that OS.

The configuration of Macbook is seriously flawed & unbalenced though.

ROFL.

Just because your future lappy (or you don't have need for Gfx cards), are you commenting thus? :lol:

Even Mac users play games. And did you forget Pro apps like Aperture, Final Edit, DJ softwares, etc?

And I would buy that MacBook for $1100 (Rs 44k) eyes closed. I just want to know a similar product and how much it costs in India.

$20 is a very small amount for people in the USA. Even Students earn as much every hour. Also I hardly use Front Row / AppleTV on my MBP. My mom likes it though.

MetalheadGautham -
The question is why not 9600m GT.

I say again, the most annoying thing in the MacBook is the combo drive in the lowest model

I wonder when Dell will offer t8*00 proccys in their lappys.

@grudge: whats the use of a DirectX upgrade in a non windows environment ? I was about to ask what you asked, but then realised that 9600m GT is not going to be giving you lots of OpenGL improvements over the 8 series.

are for Mac OS X even a 6600GT is good enough. Leopard UI is made in OpenGL 1.5 & compiled for OpenGL 2.0 too (compiled, not optimised)

gx_saurav said:
are for Mac OS X even a 6600GT is good enough. Leopard UI is made in OpenGL 1.5 & compiled for OpenGL 2.0 too (compiled, not optimised)

but what if the mac owner wants to play Gears of War or Unreal Tournament 3 ?

Then he has to buy a legal license of Windows Vista which goes against the policy of Mac users "We don't even touch Windows"

gx_saurav said:
are for Mac OS X even a 6600GT is good enough. Leopard UI is made in OpenGL 1.5 & compiled for OpenGL 2.0 too (compiled, not optimised)

I'm not sure if you're acting childish on purpose. It looks stupid.

Why would Mac PC be happy with 6600 GT? People need to run pro apps, play 1080p videos and dual boot 'Wind-woes'. I know many people who have XP installed only to play games.

Yeah, it's the only thing Windows is good at. I'm not sure why you're so proud of that. It's actually a disgrace.

aryayush said:
OK. This officially sucks.

The MacBooks don't ship with the Apple Remote anymore. Apple showing its money-hungry evil corporation side again.

February isn't over yet.

if you guys are talking about iphone sdk, its release has been pushed back by a month,isnt it ?

Thanks for the info
but its sad that there's a combo drive in cheapest ver.

Yeah.. There should be @least a DVD writer drive...

Really cheap moves from Apple lately. No Combo drive still? WTF is up with them? It might even be costing them more to manufacture that Combo drive than the DVD writer given that most of the other drives are Superdrives.

And the Apple remote, well, shame on them. The MBA not having it was one thing, but if the Macbook ceases to have one of these it just plain sucks.

Love the other upgrades though. 2.4Ghz for the Macbook is highly appreciated!

@Qwerty: Seriously? Typing "@" is so much simpler than "at"?

Pat said:
if you guys are talking about iphone sdk, its release has been pushed back by a month,isnt it ?

No, it hasn't.

gx_saurav said:
Then he has to buy a legal license of Windows Vista which goes against the policy of Mac users "We don't even touch Windows"

if you read my post, you are much mistaken. Epic Games releases games for all platforms, not just Window$ Pi$ta

drgrudge said:
I'm not sure if you're acting childish on purpose. It looks stupid.

Why would Mac PC be happy with 6600 GT? People need to run pro apps, play 1080p videos and dual boot 'Wind-woes'. I know many people who have XP installed only to play games.

I am one of those people. windows is only for gaming. Linux for other jobs and pro stuff like GIMP, Maya, etc

aryayush said:
Yeah, it's the only thing Windows is good at. I'm not sure why you're so proud of that. It's actually a disgrace.

when disgrace graces your name hundreds of times, you have an illution of grace in disgrace

aryayush said:
No, it hasn't.

*news.worldofapple.com/archives/2008/02/23/iphone-sdk-delayed-several-weeks/

It says "may be" but I think it "will be"!

It's a rumor. All rumors say "may be", but only about 1/10th of them actually turn out to be true.

Basically, it hasn't been announced by Apple so no one knows what will happen. The "may be"s and "will be"s will always be there, but we can only know for sure when we hear from Apple.