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Apple Announces "Update" to MacFaithful Credit Cards

John Paczkowski — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:01:39 +0000

It’s been 267 days since Apple last updated the MacBook Pro. That’s 81 days longer than the company historically takes between updates. Which means it was high time for an upgrade. And today we were finally given one.

This morning Apple (AAPL) refreshed both its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, adding Intel’s Penryn Core 2 Duo chipset (up to 2.4 GHz for the MacBook and up to 2.6 GHz for the MacBook Pro). As Apple’s flagship portable, the MacBook Pro now boasts the same multitouch trackpad found in the MacBook Air and an LED backlighting option for the 17-inch model. All but the low-end MacBook feature a two-gigabyte RAM, with a build-to-order option that allows for their upgrade to a four-gigabyte RAM. New Macbooks are priced from $1,099 to $1,499, new MacBook Pros from $1,999 to $2,799.

Apple Announces "Update" to MacFaithful Credit Cards

John Paczkowski — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:01:39 +0000

CES: Intel Announces Faster MacBooks

John Paczkowski — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:41:44 +0000

Well, not exactly. But the debut of Intel’s Penryn laptop processors at the Consumer Electronics Show today likely means there are some big changes in store for Apple’s product line, and we’ll almost undoubtedly see a few of them at Macworld next week.

Intel uncrated 16 of the new processors, all of them smaller, denser and faster than their predecessors, thanks to the company’s 45-nanometer manufacturing process. Among Intel’s Penryn offerings: chips ranging in performance from 2.10GHz with the Core 2 Duo T8100 processor to 2.80GHz with the Core 2 Extreme X9000.