October 15, 2008 at 11:32 am · Filed under Apple
Everyone else is writing about them, so I thought I would too.
As I’m sure you all know, Apple have released design and hardware refreshes of the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air lines. Most of the design refresh is actually behind the scenes – they have changed to a new manufacturing process that involves taking a slab (or ‘brick’) of aluminum and carving out the body of the laptop, causing it to be made out of one piece (more or less). This improves strength and makes it lighter. They’ve also added some new nVidia chips across the board, improving the graphics somewhat. They’ve also added a bunch of glass; a multitouch glass trackpad which has no button – it’s all a button, and a glass front to the new LED full-colour screens.
Nothing surprising there then, there were so many rumours about all this, and the later ones got it all right. They all look pretty nice, nothing ground breaking though. Elysium is pleased because she plans to get a MacBook for university next year, and it looks like this design will be the design she gets.
Finally, don’t you think Jony Ive is the next Steve Jobs? Just look at the MacBook video.
