Get Your Apple Liveblog Today At CrunchGear
Starting in about an hour at 1PM ET/10AM PT, CrunchGear will be liveblogging today’s Apple event. Will Jobso announce a new line of laptops with cases milled from a single brick of aluminum? (Does aluminum even come in bricks?). Will any of these laptops cost less than $1,000, or is that just a new Cinema Display? And what’s the deal with those weird ports in the leaked spy pics?
What about Blu-Ray drives? A new fancy, all-glass, multi-touch trackpad? Networked Apple HDTVs? A mug holder that uses the heat from the NVIDIA graphics chips to keep your coffee warm?
Update: Find out in about an hour right now. Apple announced two new MacBook Pros ($2,499 and $1,999), a new MacBook Air ($1,799), and a new $999 MacBook (as well as $1,299 and $1,599 versions). The company is also introducing new Cinema Displays. No Blu-Ray. No Apple HDTVs (Calacanis!). No mug holder.
Excerpt:
- All connectors on one side.Unibody enclosure, Led Display, Next-Gen graphics
- Multitouch glass trackpad
- Mini Display Port connector
- All of the regular stuff: Backlit keyboard, built in isight and mic, stereo speakers, mag latch, sudden motion sensor
- “Unibody saves us half the parts”
- “Much more rigid, strong construction that we get”
- Lights are going up so we can see it.
- He’s passing it around. Show and tell!!
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- “A new way to build notebooks”
- Steve’s back on.
- In the first three quarters, they’ve already matched 2007 at 7.1 million sales
- Surpassed Dell to become #1 notebook in the education sector
- One out of three dollars spent on retail computers spent on Macs
- Showing that one picture of the college classroom with nearly all Apple laptops
- Revenue share: 31.3%
- 17.6% of unit sales in US retail
- Outgrew the market 14 of last 15 quarters
- Over 50% of sales are new to Mac
- 400,000 visitors to Apple retail stores each day
. . .
- Steve’s Blood pressure: 110/70
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