21.09.2009 10:35 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

New MacBook and iMac Models Soon?

The fact that the Apple Store was closed for hours yesterday fueled the rumor mill about future product announcements, especially new models of iMac and MacBook. Let's start with the MacBook. It was the only 13.3" notebook to have a Firewire port for months, however, the release of the MacBook Pro 13.3" give FW back to users. So, the only important point for the MacBook today, is its price, 200 Euro less than the MacBook Pro 13.3", but with a lower hardware too: slower CPU and memory, shorter battery lifetime, etc so at the end it does not really pay to get it now. The new model would feature the polycarbonate enclosure, but should be thinner. This would require Apple to deeply change the way component are organized inside the machine. So, we would not be surprise to see the new MacBook as a polycarbonate clone of the MacBook Pro 13.3". According to some rumors, it could also lose its optical drive, becoming now a externa

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