“Apple as early as Tuesday will introduce a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a fixed internal battery and a new version of the Mac mini, both of which will feature chipsets from NVIDIA, AppleInsider has been able to independently confirm,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.

The 17-inch MacBook Pro’s “battery will be fixed in place and not easily removable by users, similar to the MacBook Air’s,” Jade reports.

“Additionally, AppleInsider can also confirm that a similarly-timed makeover to the Mac mini will see the diminutive desktop adopt chipsets from NVIDIA’s MCP79 platform,” Jade reports.

“In addition to sporting both a Mini DisplayPort and a Mini DVI connector, it’s now also rumored that the new Mac mini will see the addition of a FireWire 800 port and a fifth USB port, with the legacy FireWire 400 port going away,” Jade reports.

More details in the full article here.

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