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Apple MacBook Pro revealed

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Oct 14th 2008 No Comments

Rumors ran right up until a few hours before the Apple notebook event today and it seems most are being proven true. We got our first look at the new MacBook Pro today and as Steve Jobs said, “It’s just gorgeous.”

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Apple Brick rumor confirmed: new notebooks carved from solid aluminum block

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Oct 14th 2008 No Comments

After a rather lengthy discussion of where the Mac has been, Steve Jobs got back on stage and revealed a rumor to be true. All of those “brick” rumors we’d been hearing about were confirmed. The new Apple notebooks are to be carved from a solid brick of aluminum for a lighter and stronger product.

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Live at the Apple MacBook event; a walk down memory lane

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Oct 14th 2008 No Comments

Steve Jobs walked on stage this morning to applauds and began the Apple MacBook event with a review of all that has come before. The on-screen demonstration showed off the current notebook line as it stands.

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MacBook event rumor roundup; live blogging to start soon

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Oct 14th 2008 No Comments

Anticipation is in the air! The Apple notebook event is set to start in under an hour and the rumor mill has continued to churn over night, it seems. Even though you can find out all the real details very soon during our Live Blog of the event, here are a few last minute rumors to further heighten the excitement.

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Apple’s online store down for updates

By Staff Editor on Tuesday, Oct 14th 2008 No Comments

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Just minutes before Apples announces the new line of MacBooks and MacBook Pros the online Apple store went down for updates. While we all know what will be added to the store, we won’t be able to get a look at the MacBooks until after the event. From what we have read they will be refreshing all of the current MacBook and MacBook Pro models, however rumors of a $900 MacBook will be cleared up very shortly during the Apple launch event. Follow our Live coverage at http://live.slashgear.com

Apple Macbook event today; SlashGear is live blogging

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Oct 14th 2008 No Comments

The rumors have been rampaging and now we’re only hours away from Apple’s “The spotlight turns of notebooks” event that is said to focus on their laptop line. But you won’t have to wait for the news. SlashGear will be there live blogging the whole thing.

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New Spyshot shows off Macbook Pro

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Oct 13th 2008 2 Comments

It’s now the night before the Macbook event tomorrow, that we’ll be Live Blogging from, and though we’ll all know the truth soon enough, many are still speculating about what the new Macbook and Macbook Pro will entail. And a new spyshot is giving us a good, albeit blurry, look at what might be announced tomorrow.

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Rumored BestBuy listing for MacBook and MacBook Pro

By Staff Editor on Monday, Oct 13th 2008 No Comments

More BestBuy inventory sheets have surfaced this week, this time they lists the new MacBook and MacBook Pro that will be announced tomorrow at Apples event, (that we will be live blogging). Nothing large or mind blowing was revealed in the inventory sheets. The main focus is really on the pricing that they list.

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Apple support document confirms upcoming MacBook & MacBook Pro

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Oct 12th 2008 No Comments

While there seems little mystery to the fact that new laptops are being announced on Tuesday, Apple still like to keep up their clandestine facade. In a PDF document initially published to their support site, and since taken down, the company refers to the “MacBook/MacBook Pro (Late 2008)”, presumably the models that will take the stage this coming week.

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NVIDIA graphics for MacBook & MacBook Pro, plus Blu-ray?

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Oct 12th 2008 No Comments

nvidia macbook logo 480x384 Despite the blame flying around between Apple and NVIDIA over ongoing MacBook graphics failures, the upcoming laptop refresh will apparently include video chipsets from NVIDIA’s MCP79 platform, rather than use Intel integrated graphics, together with Blu-ray drives. They’re the latest multimedia rumors surrounding the upcoming MacBook and MacBook Pro refresh; Apple Insider suggests that GeForce 9300 and 9400 series integrated mainboard graphics processors will find their way into the entry-level 13-inch models, better differentiating them from Windows machines using Intel’s less-capable GMA 4500MHD chipset.