Apple Updates The MacBook Line

So the Apple Store is down, and the blog­gers are at the ready because today Apple is announc­ing updates to their Mac­Book line of prod­ucts. We’re already seeing photo’s and reports of what these lap­tops look like and have in them but we won’t know for sure until Steve tell’s us. Some of the spec­u­la­tion is quite excit­ing. Pic­tures have been leaked and con­firmed and the Mac­Book Pro is finally get­ting a style update. The cur­rent case design is one that has been around for a while mainly because it is so good, there’s not much wrong with it. But as Apple does they always find a way to make it better. The case is one piece of alu­minum no plas­tic around the edges con­nect­ing the top and bottom. The dis­play now has black plas­tic fram­ing like the iMacs and I’m hear­ing that there will be no matte dis­play (boo to that). There is no phys­i­cal latch but the magnet style latch that the Mac­Books have had and the key­board has been updated to the newer Mac­Book style. Also a new glass track­pad that has no seper­ate phys­i­cal button but is a button in itself. Rumors of new dis­plays are also flying around and pos­si­bly a sub $1000 notebook.

And what rumor post would be com­plete with­out the oblig­a­tory blurry pic­ture (source Engad­get):

You can follow along with all the offi­cial action today on a few sites:

• Engad­get
• Giz­modo
• Ars Tech­nica
• Mac­world

Have fun refreshing!

UPDATE:

Well that was fun. Most of the rumors were right about the new Mac­Book Pro. The new look is great and the updated hard­ware is won­der­ful. I’m won­der­ing why the updates weren’t applied to every­thing the 17″ Mac­Book Pro didn’t get the case refresh so I wonder if they are con­sid­er­ing phas­ing that model out. They came close on the sub $1000 note­book, the old white plas­tic MacBook’s are now priced $999, with new models that have the same styling as the Mac­Book Pro start­ing at $1299.

The new Cinema Dis­play is prob­a­bly where the most inno­va­tion took place. The new Cinema Dis­play now has a mini-​dvi con­nec­tor and a magsafe power con­nec­tor to plug into your new Mac­Book or Mac­Book Pro making them great for lap­tops. The styling gets an update with a black bevel. A few new fea­tures includ­ing an iSight camera, speak­ers in the mon­i­tor are great features.

You can get more info on the Mac­Book, Mac­Book Pro, and the Cinema Dis­play on the Apple site and poten­tially go even deeper in debt at the Apple Store.