Apple Announces New MacBook, iMac, Mini

Today’s announcements by Apple were good news for those waiting on updates to the MacBook, iMac, and the Mac Mini. All three were given major updates.

MacBook

The past few updates to the MacBook line have been uneventful, but that hasn’t stopped the MacBook from being the best-selling computer in the company’s history. The new design and $999 price point will probably insure that it stays that way.  Here are the basic stats:

2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor

2GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM

320GB Hard Drive, 8x Double-layer SuperDrive

13-inch LED-backlit Glossy Widescreen Display, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics

Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, Up to 7 Hours of Battery Life

iMac

The new iMac has undergone some nice changes. Both the 21.5- and 27-inch screens give it the feel of a home entertainment center, instead of a merely a desktop PC.  The standard hard drive on the high-end iMacs is now 1 Terabyte (TB). That’s a lot of room for downloaded video and music, but if it’s not enough, you can purchase the optional 2 TB drive and up to 16 GB of RAM.  The fastest 21.5-inch model has a 3.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6MB shared L2 cache, while the fastest 27-inch iMac has the 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 8MB shared L3 cache. Remember that 2.8 is a QUAD-CORE chip. That’s some major number-crunching.

Mac mini

With either 2GB or 4GB of memory, Mac mini has twice as much memory as the previous generation. You also get a 2.26GHz or a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a blazing-fast 1066MHz frontside bus, and 3MB of L2 cache.

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The New MacBook

The New iMac

The New Mac Mini