New Macbooks Official, Meet Multi-Touch And Penryn

It has been rumoured for a while, but only moments ago is it official. There are new Macbooks and Macbook Pro’s on the Apple block, and they got some handy, but not life changing updates. The biggest one is the introduction of the Air’s Multi-Touch pad to the whole Macbook range and the updated processors to Intels flagship Penryn series.
They’re also getting a much more powerful graphics processor, with the introduction of the sweet new Nvidia 8600GT with 512mb of memory onboard, on all the new Pro’s. The new top end processor is the beastly 2.6 GHz processor with 6MB of shared L2 cache.
The rest of the package is pretty standard affair, but is nice to see Apple rolling out the Multi-Touch feature to its minions. Starting from $US1,099, the new Macbooks are available from the Apple website immediately.

For a whole lot more info, click over to Apple Insider.

The N96 Is Officially Official

It seems today was the worst day to buy a new mobile phone, with a slew of companies releasing their new fancy pants range or devices. The one that a lot of people have been waiting for has just become official, and that is the Nokia N96. It has been pictured before, but I have the official specs and info on this full featured handset.
First off it will have a few similarities to the N95, such as A-GPS, 5MP camera and a Symbian OS. This little fella gets a 2.8-inch screen (up from 2.6-inch’s), 16GB of flash storage (take that iPhone) and a DVB-H receiver (watching TV in Europe and Asia). It also features the new N-Gage gaming platform, that will hopefully out last the last N-Gage.
The N-Gage doesn’t seem to feature 3G support, so not so good for the US and Australian market, and will cost around $US800. There is no release date know set of the device, but I hope the price tag is pure RRP.

For more info, jiggle over to Gizmodo.

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