AHN Staff Cupertino, CA (AHN) - Apple Inc. launched Tuesday two new models of MacBooks that are energy-efficient, light, due to the aluminum casing, and have faster 3D graphics. Apple CEO Steve Jobs described the 13.3-inch MacBook and 15.4-inch MacBook Pro as “the industry’s greenest notebooks” for meeting stringent Energy Star 4.0, EPEAT Gold and RoHS environmental standards.
New Apple MacBook and Air with 45-nanometer Montevina CPU
Posted on 2009 under iPod nano | No Comment3 Jan
Instead of using the old 65-nanometer Penryn-class chips, Apple decided to change over to the 45-nanometer Montevina processor, these chips are more advanced. In some cases the new chip boasts the memory, so instead of the old 65-nanometer Penryn-class chips with 2MB or 4MB cache, the new the 45-nanometer Montevina processor, has 3MB or 6MB of cache.
Mr. Jobs introduced new versions of the company s MacBook Pro and MacBook portable computers that are carved from 2.5-pound blocks of aluminum. He said that the manufacturing process would allow Apple to build more rigid and reliable products. We end with this remarkably precise part that now only weighs a quarter of a pound, said Jonathan Ive, Apple s senior vice president for design. Ever the showman, Mr.
Apple on Blu-Ray, Touch Screen Displays, Netbooks
Posted on 2009 under MacBook Pro | No Comment3 Jan
While Apple did drop the price of the lowest-end MacBook yesterday to $999, that model retains the old MacBook architecture and casing. Readers should note, however, that the new entry level MacBook ($999) now ships with a SuperDrive. The previous $1099 MacBook contained only a Combo Drive.
As the dust settles on the launch of Apple’s new laptop range, one thing is becoming clear: if you’re a musician, the new MacBook could be best avoided. It saddens me to say this ‘“ the new machine looks beautiful and has several benefits ‘“ but the lack of a FireWire port is a major bugbear. For me, buying a new MacBook simply wouldn’t be an option, as both my audio interface and digital video camera are FireWire-only devices.
Apple has awoken sleeping giant Nokia – now it gets nasty
Posted on 2009 under iPod touch | No Comment3 Jan
In fact, according to analyst firm MultiMedia Intelligence, Apple awoke several sleeping giants. Apple did not copy the rest; it taught them a lesson, said Mark Kirstein of MultiMedia Intelligence. It made a sleek, sexy and cool phone that people wanted. Motorola did this earlier with the Razr, but it did not sustain the effort. Apple went beyond simply replacing the keyboard with a huge touchscreen display, it created a fun yet effective user interface.
The new MacBook line will be powered by NVIDIA s new GeForce 9400M. Don t scoff at it just because it is an integrated 3D graphics processor, as it is powerful enough to feature 16 parallel processing cores while delivering up to five times the 3D graphics performance as previous MacBook and MacBook Air designs.
Jackass of the week honors go to Duncan Riley at Inquisitr, who a week ago launched the ‘њ$800 laptop from Apple’ќ rumor … That’s not close . That’s totally and utterly wrong … it is dominating post-event news coverage and quite possibly a significant factor in Apple’s stock price dropping 5 points on the day. Bonus jackass points to Sanford Bernstein financial analyst Toni Sacconaghi, who …
Apple revamps Macbook Air and throws in more storage and better graphics
Posted on 2009 under MacBook Pro | No Comment2 Jan
Apple has packed it with more memory - 120GB HDD or 128GB SSD - which is a generous step up from the 80GB HDD and 64GB SSD in the original. The new MacBook Air also offers better graphics too, thanks to the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M processor (also found in the new MacBook) which according to Apple gives it a quadruple boost in graphics performance.
Apple’s new notebooks answer the call for innovation
Posted on 2009 under Apple acessories | No Comment2 Jan
WorldBooks had it first You could say that I saw much of this coming. Back in July, I laid out the specifications for what I considered to be the perfect notebook computer ; actually, two perfect notebook computers. I took what knowledge I have about manufacturing processes, component costs, and user’s desires (well, my own) and painstakingly “designed” a pair of imaginary notebook PCs that my editors polished and dubbed WorldBook.