NEW Apple Laptops Feature GLASS Trackpad For A `Lower Price !!!

by **J The Kidd** Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:25 am

Apple Inc. touched up its line of laptop computers Tuesday with a
minimal nod to the economic turmoil that might push consumers to be
more frugal this holiday shopping season.

Apple did lower its least expensive laptop, the existing version of the entry-level MacBook, by $100 to $999.

But in the updated versions of its MacBook and MacBook Pro
machines, Apple focused mainly on adding features. Some had been in the
svelte MacBook Air, including thinner laptop casings and a "multitouch"
track pad, which, like the iPhone, understands gestures for spinning
and zooming.

As at other events in the last few months, Jobs appeared thin but, in a
tongue-in-cheek nod to persistent questions about his health, projected
a slide with his healthy 110-over-70 blood pressure reading.

The redesigned laptops are thinner and lighter, and use what Apple
touted as a construction "breakthrough" when it debuted in the
super-slim MacBook Air in January. All the new laptops now use casings
cut and tooled from aluminum, without a stronger skeleton fused to the
insides.

At the lowest end of the redesigned laptops, a MacBook will cost
$1,299, while the most expensive MacBook Pro, which comes with two
graphics chips from Nvidia for extra-fast graphics processing, costs
$2,499 _ a $300 reduction from the previous top model. An updated
MacBook Air, the ultra-thin portable notebook that does not have a CD
or DVD drive on board, begins at $1,799, just as the previous Air did.

The track pads built into MacBooks and MacBook Pros also got a
makeover. They're much larger and made from glass for smooth scrolling,
and instead of a separate button to clicking of a mouse, the entire
track pad depresses.

Jobs declined to take questions on the economy, telling reporters and
analysts that "there are much smarter people than us that you can ask
about the global financial meltdown."

Apple shares fell $6.18, 5.6 percent, to close at $104.08.

"Clearly the MacBooks and MacBook Pros were in need of a refresh,"
Baker said. The update was incremental, he said, but "that's kind of
where the PC market is these days."

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