“It’s [got] two full-on NVIDIA GPUs — sounds like a hybrid SLI setup to us, which is pretty wild. Wilder still, they say the MacBook and 17-inch MacBook Pro aren’t getting refreshed,” Patel reports.
MacDailyNews Note: NVIDIA describes Hybrid SLI technology: Based on NVIDIA’s industry-leading SLI technology, delivers multi-GPU (graphics processing unit) benefits when an NVIDIA motherboard GPU is combined with an NVIDIA discrete GPU. Hybrid SLI increases graphics performance with GeForce Boost and provides intelligent power management with HybridPower.
Patel continues, “John Gruber over at Daring Fireball, the first to accurately predict today’s launch event, has confidentally chimed in with many more details. The button-less trackpad is indeed glass, and ‘is a button itself.'”
Another photo (from the side) and more details in the full article here.
John Gruber reports for Daring Fireball: It’s the real deal. Major visible changes from the previous MacBook Pros:
• A new iMac-style black border around the display.
• A single-piece aluminum frame. No more chintzy plastic trim along the edges and seams.
• No more physical latch.
• MacBook Air-style black keyboard.
Gruber reports, “And good news for those of you who’ve been bitching about Apple’s laptops having a single button: the single-button trackpad is gone. Which is to say there is no button at all. The new trackpad is similar to the Air’s, in that it is bigger and supports additional multi-touch gestures. But unlike the Air’s, the MacBook Pro’s new trackpad is made of glass, and is a button itself. You just press and it clicks. This is not like the current software option where you can enable ‘Tap to Click’ in the trackpad preferences, but instead a glass trackpad that acts as a physical button, with a click you can feel.”
Gruber reports, “The new MacBook Pro is not available with a matte-finish display. If you don’t like glossy, you can suck it.”
“I don’t know if the 17-inch revision is simply forthcoming, or whether it’s being phased out. My hunch is that it’s being phased out,” Gruber reports.
“The new regular MacBooks look like 13-inch versions of the new MacBook Pro… MacBook Pro prices will remain the same, at $1999 and $2499. Same for MacBook Airs: $1799 and $2499… [MacBooks will go for] $1299: 2.0 GHz, 2 GB memory, 160 GB disk [and] $1499: 2.4 GHz, 2 GB memory, 250 GB disk… the 2.1 GHz white MacBook remains in the new lineup, at a new price of $999 — technically breaking the $1000 barrier, but nowhere near the $800 price point some financial analysts have [predicted.]”
Much, much more in the full article here.