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The new MacBooks are 0.95″ thick and weigh 4.5 lbs.

$1599 for 13.3″ LED backlit display, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory, 9400M GeForce, 250GB hard drive and SuperDrive.

$1299 for 13.3″ LED backlit display, 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory, 9400M GeForce, 160GB hard drive and SuperDrive.

MacBook Pro Configurations

The new MacBook Pros are 0.95″ thick and weigh 5.5 lbs.

$1999 for 15.4″ LED backlit display, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory, both NVIDIA chips, 250GB hard drive, slot-loading SuperDrive, 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1. 0.95 inches thick.

$2499 for 15.4″ LED backlit display, 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 6MB L2 Cache, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 memory, both NVIDIA chips, 250GB hard drive, slot-loading SuperDrive, 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1. 0.95 inches thick. This model can be upgraded to 2.8GHz.

New features of the MacBook Air:

MacBook Air, measuring only 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, 0.76-inches at its maximum height and weighing just three pounds, now includes new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics and a faster architecture to provide robust support for 3D games and enhanced performance. Starting at $1,799, MacBook Air is available with a 120GB 4200 rpm hard drive, a 50 percent increase from the previous generation, or a new 128GB solid state drive.

Construction

Apple detailed a new “unibody” construction method for the MacBook Pro that improves upon the current model’s thin aluminum shell reinforced with an internal frame. The new design is pattered after the MacBook Air released in January, although it appears similar to the MacBooks.

Half the structural parts of the former “discrete” MacBook Pro design
Strong, torsionally rigid, light, and thin
MacBook Air-style keyboard
Ports all located on left side

MagSafe
Gigabit Ethernet
Firewire 800
Dual USB 2.0
Mini Display Port (HDMI could not drive a 30″ display)
Analog/digital audio in and out
ExpressCard 34 slot
Side mounted battery indicator light

Optical drive located on right edge (DVD, not Blu-ray)
Backlit keyboard
Magnetic latch
Motion Sensor
Stereo Speakers, iSight, Mic

[photos via Engadget details via AppleInsider]

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Glass Track Pad (Multi Touch Support)
No Track Pad Button (Double Tap and Gestures)
Glossy Screen (No matte option)
NVIDIA Graphics Chips
New Aluminum Case (except for the white 13″)

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There are rumors that Apple may finally introduce a sub $1000 USD notebook to compete with Dell, HP and others who have control of the sub $1000 notebook market. There are indications that Apple may introduce a line of notebooks that range in price from $800-$3100 USD.

There are allot of rumors based on the events leaked code name for the star of the show, “the Brick”, and what it could be. Some are speculating that it is a new technique for carving the MacBook casings from one piece of aluminium, doing away with allot of seams, screws and less pieces to the notebook. Others speculated that this may be the code name for a new Touch Tablet or even a new AppleTV/Mac Mini crossbreeed. In the end, we’ll only have to wait until next Tuesday to find out. Below are a couple photos of the supposed new MacBook ‘Brick’.

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In other news, a recent report on AppleInsider indicates that according to NPD the iPhone 3G is now the second best-selling mobile handset in the United States (and I am sure in many other countries too). The Apple iPhone 3G is second place the the Motorola Razr V3 according to US sales charts. More importantly these same charts show that the iPhone 3G is now the top selling smartphone, outselling the BlackBerry Curve, Pearl and Palm Centro.

Last week a malicious rumor was started and posted on many iPhone and Apple News Blogs reporting that Steve Jobs suffered a massive heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. I choose not to post the news, even if they were true I wanted to make sure they came from an Apple announcement. These rumors were thankfully false and Apple CEO, Steve Jobs is in good health according to a Apple PR. Regardless the Apple stocks (AAPL: 106.34 +2.17%) fell almost 10 points that Friday before recovering slightly, but since then the (AAPL: 106.34 +2.17%) stock price continues to fall.

This rumor shows how affected Apple Stock Price is on the health of Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs and how closely he is tied to it’s future and success. This is very unsettling to investors and I personally think this is being reflected in Apple (AAPL: 106.34 +2.17%) stock value recently, and the recent US stock market down turn isn’t helping either. But this all still comes after Apple has had one of it’s best overall sales years for iMac’s Laptops, iPods and of course iPhones.

Let’s all hope that with Steve Jobs himself unveiling the rumored “Brick”, along with Apple’s new improved, cheaper MacBook line and maybe some sort of Touch Tablet will help increase some confidence in Apple Stocks (AAPL: 106.34 +2.17%) and more so, the CEO’s health.

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“We’ve been exploring different ideas with the 3G unlock, but this past weekend one of us hit a big snag. For whatever reason, all of our poking and prodding of the 3G baseband caused it to finally have a breakdown.   After one specific exploit run, all of a sudden our baseband stopped responding to the OS.   Even after multiple restore attempts, we were plagued with errors like this:

Somehow our software hacking had caused the baseband chip’s SPI bus to stop responding (so it looked like a hardware problem).   Even though BBUpdaterExtreme reported the correct baseband version, it failed basic tests like memtest:

If you’re familiar with the baseband revision history for the 3G iPhone, you may have noticed that the above captures were done at the original 01.45 baseband.  As dire (and hardware-related) as these messages sounded, though, there was a simple solution.  We just updated to 01.46 and then downgraded again (because we can run unsigned code on the baseband CPU) to 01.45.

We tried to recreate the problem by using the same exploit over again, but it doesn’t appear to be reproducible (which is actually disappointing, as it might have been exploitable).

Anyway, there you go…a random, technical snapshot of dev team work.”

One readers comments suggests that this may be the method that leads to a 3G baseband unlock if the Dev Team can re-create the error again and are able to upload unassigned code that can execute the unlock.

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You guys are geniuses!!! All you have to do at this point to recreate the exploit is to migrate in the reference file ICE2 to the CFI loader. Once you do that, the bootsector is going to change its boot mode from 0xCC to 0xFF. Which of course is going to allow you to send a flash ID to the Protocol configuration sect which ultimately will allow the core kernel to redirect and redistribute the command queue, preventing it from stalling on command 2215. Once all this is accomplished you can then run any unsigned code on the baseband. So there you go guys.

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• Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist.
• Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano.
• Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading.
• Improves checking for updates from the App Store
• Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.
• Addresses problems syncing Genius results to iPod.

[via MacRumors and the Forum]