Guys Upstairs - Tech

Apple’s long awaited event at the Cupertino headquarters announced several updates to the MacBook line of notebooks. Many of the rumors were true, including the brick manufacturing process. The manufacturing process involves cutting down a solid block of aluminum and after 13 milling processes and other machininery it finally gets made into the base of the MacBook.

The MacBook as well as the MacBook Pro will feature a new glass trackpad which is 39% larger than previous ones and allows up to four finger gestures. Also updated is the display which is now LED backlit, and the graphics card - Nvidia GeForce 9400M and 9600M (with 512 MB RAM) on the MacBook Pro and 9400M on the MacBook.

Prices for the MacBook will start at $999 (2.1GHz, Intel GMA X3100 graphics), with the Nvidia graphics card available on the more expensive $1,299 and $1,599 models. The MacBook Pro will go for $1,999 for 15.4″ display, 2.4GHz, and 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory.

Check out the entire keynote here. It appears that Steve Jobs is trying to ease the world into the possibility of him leaving sometime in the future.

[Ars Technica]