The Angry Drunk

The first sub­stan­tive announce­ment was updates to the Macbook and Macbook Pro line­ups. I don’t have the patience to detail all of the changes, but you can read up on them here. The gist of the updates are: The Unibody 17, 15, and 13 inch mod­els now all fall under the MacBook Pro label. The poly­car­bon­ate 15-inch Macbook gains an offi­cial place in the lineup. The Macbook Air gets a price drop. Firewire 800 and a Secure Digital card slot are present on all Macbook Pros, regard­less of size. And finally, ExpressCard remains only on the 17-inch Macbook Pro. Notably, although not sur­pris­ingly, miss­ing from the announce­ment was the long dreamed for Apple netbook.

To me, there are some inter­est­ing impli­ca­tions of yesterday’s note­book announce­ments. First, Apple has finally seen the prob­lems inher­ent in main­tain­ing a Macbook vs. Macbook Pro dis­tinc­tion arbi­trar­ily based on screen size and port avail­abil­ity. Now it is clear that Unibody mod­els (except­ing the Air) are to be seen as “pro­fes­sional” machines and the poly­car­bon­ate model(s) are

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