If you’re an owner of one of Apple Inc.’s popular MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops then perhaps you’d be well advised to take a snapshot of your computer for posterity. For, if current Apple rumours are to be believed, the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines as we presently know them are destined for a significant makeover.
Rumours suggest Apple is to abandon its iconic white designs in new MacBook line. Credit: Dan Taylor/Flickr.
AppleInsider reports that unnamed sources have let slip that the consumer-specific 13-inch MacBook range will receive the greatest overhaul, with its plastic exterior casing set to be replaced with significantly greener materials including a mixture of aircraft-grade aluminium and stainless steel.
If such an aesthetic change does actually come about through the revamped MacBook, it will certainly go some way to underpinning Apple’s intent to cast itself in a much more eco-friendly light. It will also mark the first time Apple has leant its MacBook devices firmly away from the iconic all-white presentation the California-based computer company has relied on for so many years.
The more business-oriented MacBook Pro line will reportedly also receive aesthetic alterations that will include the addition of aluminium and matte black casing elements -- likely lifted, in an inspirational sense, from the aluminium iMac desktops offerings of summer 2007 -- along with oversized trackpads and the MacBook Air’s keyboard.
Any such design alterations will be the first to arrive on the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines since they embraced Intel Corp. processing technology back in 2006
AppleInsider also suggests that the upcoming aesthetic and eco-conscious changes will arrive on the back of internal alterations to the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, including the addition of Intel’s Montevina-based processors, which are built on the Centrino 2 platform. The new processors will come equipped with 2.2GHz and 2.8GHz clock speeds along with 1066MHz front side bus performance.
In terms of an official MacBook and MacBook Pro announcement, Intel Corp. is expected to confirm the arrival of its Montevina technology in June of this year, at roughly the same time that Apple will be hosting its annual developers conference in San Francisco.
BGO!-Blasting Glimpse of the Obvious!Apr 10th, 2008 - 05:11:19
Is it just me, surely everyone else is not blind.
The new machines will look like bigger Airs!
Joe
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