The New Macbook Pro
I've included a Video for the New Macbook. You will need Quicktime installed in order to view it (or a media viewer compatible). It's in streaming format as it's a whopping 146MB and I didn't think anyone would want to download that large a file. it's quite fascinating to watch the manufacturing process. Does anyone know why the 'brits' pronounce aluminium funny? ~giggles -- There were two spellings of the element to make matters even more confusing...(Webster's Dictionary of 1828 has only aluminum, though the standard spelling among US chemists throughout most of the nineteenth century was aluminium).
(the Myspace geeks disabled this link as spam or phishing, it's just an .mov file)
http://wereit.us/1_Video/New_macbook_video_20081014.mov
The next-generation MacBook.
The new MacBook has something for everyone. Less than an inch thin and 4.5 pounds, it fits your backpack (and your mobile lifestyle). It offers great integrated graphics performance for playing 3D games or creating photo books in iPhoto and making movies in iMovie. And it has all the MacBook features you want at a price you'll adore. The ultimate mobile powerhouse.
It's all about performance. If you want desktop-class graphics and a bigger display, you want the all-new MacBook Pro. With a double graphics punch — both integrated and discrete NVIDIA graphics processors — the 15-inch MacBook Pro is fast enough to run the most graphics-intensive games and professional applications, but portable enough to come along for the ride.
The only downside I can share is the following:"Apple customers, unhappy that the company dropped FireWire from its new MacBook (not the Pro), are venting their frustrations on the company's support forum in hundreds of messages. Within minutes of Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapping up a launch event in Cupertino, Calif., users started several threads to vent over the omission. 'Apple really screwed up with no FireWire port,' said Russ Tolman, who inaugurated a thread that by Thursday has collected more than 300 messages and been viewed over 8,000 times.
'No MacBook with [FireWire] — no new MacBook for me,' added Simon Meyer in a message posted yesterday. Several mentioned that FireWire's disappearance means that the new MacBooks could not be connected to other Macs using Target Disk Mode, and one noted that iMovie will have no way to connect to new MacBooks. Others pointed out that the previous-generation MacBook, which Apple is still selling at a reduced price of $999, includes a FireWire port.
Apple introduced FireWire into its product lines in 1999 and championed the standard."
