This post was written by Mary Joseff
The very process of unboxing Apple’s Macbook Pro is enough to melt all but the coldest of hearts. Grab the MacBook Pro with both hands and it exudes a sturdiness that eludes other laptops. And it’s surprisingly slim, too. The 1,440 x 900 resolution strikes that perfect balance between a roomy desktop and legibility, and image quality is beyond reproach. The downside of the glossy finish, beyond the increased reflectivity, is that amorous fingers soon leave it smudged and dirty.
Apple has launched its new MacBook consumer notebook family in India. The company is offering seven models in three product categories. All of them are built using the new mechanical design which uses a single ‘unibody’ ultra light aluminium chasis. This enables the company to claim the lightest, thinnest title in their class, for many of the offerings. The seven new releases include the MacBook, MacBookPro and MacBook Air categories. All the machines share Apple’s trademark design innovations: a gesture-sensitive touch pad; recessed ports; displays back lit with LEDs; light-adjusting keyboards.
Following Apple Inc.’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer comment that its gross margins would continue to be affected by a planned “product transition” throughout fiscal 2009, there has been continuous speculation regarding the high-profile product transitions. The rumor mills suggest that Apple is preparing to launch brand new versions of its highly popular MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops. With a widely proffered release date of as early as this coming September, a number of ardent Apple watchers believe the new hardware offerings will be revamped in several ways.