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There Will be New MacBooks

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It’s now almost certain that there will be new MacBooks introduced in a few days at Apple’s October 14 notebook event. A PDF-format repair guide was accidentally posted on Apple’s website. It detailed how the Airport Extreme Card would be replaced, and it specifically said … Read more

Apple: Notebook Event on October 14, 2008

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Apple MacBook Air Next Tuesday, October 14, 2008, there will indeed be an Apple event after all, and it will definitely be notebook oriented (which matches with some of the rumors we’ve seen recently).

AppleInsider has the details – an invitation sent to the media yesterday shows what appears to be an aluminum Apple notebook with the words “The spotlight turns to notebooks.“.

The event will be at the Cupertino headquarters of Apple at the “Apple Town Hall” at 10:00am (Pacific) next Tuesday. As AI points out, this has been used to make Mac-related product announcements in the past. Earlier this year, the venue was used to launch the new aluminium iMacs.

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Apple, the Brick, and Reality

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With all of the rumors swirling around Apple coming out with new designs for their MacBook and MacBook Pro lines (including moving the MacBook to the same materials and a similar design as the MacBook Pro), as well as some kind of manufacturing the entire … Read more

Apple and Netbooks

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Apple MacBook Air Kevin Tofel over at jkOnTheRun wrote a good summary of why we’ll probably see an Apple netbook sometime this year. He listed three very good reasons why Apple will produce a netbook, and I agree for the most part – I differ on the issue of timing, but I’m not so sure that Apple has a choice on timing at this point. With one of the last holdouts, Sony, even saying “we have to participate“, Apple will be the only major player without a netbook.

Kevin’s reason:
1) Apple is way overdue on MacBook Pro refreshes and designs (important when taken in context with the other reasons). His reasoning – a lot of new technology has come out since the MacBook Pros were first released, and a major refresh would take advantage of those newer technologies.

2) The 13.3” MacBooks could possibly be absorbed into the MacBook Pro line, based on what HP just did (HP has released the 13.3″ Pavilion dv3500t which has an NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS graphcis chipset while the MacBook is relying on Intel’s integrated graphics chipsets, and the dv3500t is in the MacBook price range). If Apple adds better graphics to the MacBook, then it would be very close to the MacBook Pro (as Kevin points out, one of the key differences between the consumer and pro Apple lineups is the graphics chipsets).

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MacBook Changes in October?

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Earlier this month, there were reports that the 13.3″ Apple MacBooks would be updated sometime this year (aluminum body, styling more in line with other aluminum Macs, etc.). Now AppleInsider (and earlier this month Daring Fireball) are reporting that sometime next month, Apple maybe holding … Read more