More laptop details

Continuing the stream of last minute reports and confirming our earlier report, Apple will indeed introduce MacBook Pros as well as MacBooks at Tuesday morning's event: the new laptops will feature a single buttonless (but clickable) glass trackpad. According to Daring Fireball, the "new trackpad is similar to the Air’s, in that it is bigger and supports additional multi-touch gestures. But unlike the Air’s, the MacBook Pro’s new trackpad is made of glass, and is a button itself. You just press and it clicks." Confirming MacNN's report, Apple will not ship a 17-inch MacBook Pro model (due to the production issues reported earlier), but will bump the storage/RAM (and perhaps processor) to fill the high-end gap.

Apple will also only ship two MacBook models (2GB/160GB and 2GB/250GB for $1,299 and $1,499, respectively) and leave the current $1,099 2.1GHz MacBook to fill the $999 price point (without the updates featured in the new MacBooks).

In addition, the report says that Apple will MacBook Air with a larger 120GB hard drive and larger 128GB SSD option and confirms that the circulating $899 MacBook is false and the SKU reflects the price of a new DisplayPort-enabled $899 24-inch LED Apple Cinema Display.

The MacBook will reportedly feature an improved NVIDIA 9400M GPU, while the MacBook Pro will also have a dedicated 9600M GT GPU for even more performance.

by MacNN Staff