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Apple Event on October 14
In: Apple| Technology
12 Oct 2008
Apple is holding an event on Tuesday to announce updates to its notebook computers. Rumors suggest a new portable laptop line, cheaper MacBooks, MacBook shell carved out of a single piece of aluminum, and perhaps new NVIDIA chipsets instead of Intel’s chipsets.
We’ll have to wait and see what Apple has in store for us.
Here’s a roundup of most of the rumors: Apple MacBook Event 2008 [Gizmodo.com]
Info on the supposed new NVIDIA chipsets: Apple dumping Intel chipsets for NVIDIA’s [AppleInsider.com]
And to get live coverage of the Apple event by the folks over at Gizmodo, check out live.gizmodo.com
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Prashant
October 24th, 2008 at 2:41 am
UPDATE: Apple did indeed release new Macbooks and MacBook Pros with a unibody aluminum fram and new NVIDIA chipsets, improving its graphics.
Two disadvantages that I found:
1) The Macbooks don’t come with any Firewire ports. I think this is a huge disadvantage to all those who do any sort of video editing as most of those users use video cameras and hard drives that utilize this data transfer technology. The Macbook Pro, however, does come with one FW800 port that is also compatible with FW400.
2) The new Macbooks and Macbook Pros do not give the options of a matte screen in place of the new glossy finish screens. This is likely going to be a huge turn-off to many graphic designers as it is very difficult to calibrate and use glossy screens for color and contrast critical tasks. Hopefully in the future, Apple will provide a matte display option, at least when creating a built to order notebook.