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SAN FRANCISCO - Apple introduced a
new line of laptops with more features and prices very tight,
which include the new MacBook Pro and improvements to the MacBook Air,
that a few weeks of the start of a holiday season that is expected to be
the worst in decades the sector.
Lightest.
It is the first serious retouching in
two years the number of MacBook laptops following the introduction of
the MacBook Air model, the thinnest Apple, in January 2008.
Experts and journalists also were expecting the launch of a new
revolutionary model, since in recent days, rumors were circulating that
Apple would present a more simple and inexpensive laptop, whose
price would not exceed $ 800.
Although there was a new line of models with price-adjusted, the model
for times of crisis failed. However, Apple reduced the price to $ 100 in
the 13-inch MacBook with a white casing, the cheapest model of the firm,
to be at $ 999.
"The new MacBooks offer features that will
delight users to like-metal designs, stunning 3D graphics cards and
displays LED-priced up to $ 700 lower than before," said Steve Jobs,
Apple's chairman.
The new prices will range between $ 1299 and $ 2499 in the United
States. The new family of MacBooks have filed a case manufactured from a
single block of aluminum, which makes them thinner, lighter and
resistant than others.
The line will include a MacBook with 13-inch screen with Intel Core 2
Duo 2.0 or 2.4 GHz and a 15.4-inch MacBook Pro with options of 2.4 GHz
or 2.53 GHz.
The cheapest MacBook line on the market costs $ 999 and the new 17-inch
MacBook Pro, the most expensive sold for $ 2799.
All new models include LED display and a trackpad (tactile device
that serves as a mouse) with functions similar to those of the phone's
touch-screen iPhone and 40% more surface area.
Will also have an NVIDIA graphics cards instead of the current Intel
which, as explained by Steve Jobs, will allow activities such as playing
video games in three dimensions are up to six times faster.
These graphics cards will be introduced in two updated versions of the
MacBook Air with Intel Core 2 Duo processors from 1.6 GHz to 1.86 GHz,
respectively. The computer has less than an inch thick, but no reader of
CDs or DVDs.
Like the rest of the sector companies, the firm based in Supertino,
California, is aware that the economic crisis will make the current
campaign is the most disastrous holiday in decades.
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