Nothing New Outside, but Inside?

       Nothing New Outside, but Inside?

By Michael Van Hoesen

        On Tuesday May 11th, Apple released their newest version of the Mac Book Pro family. Over time their laptop lines have encountered many changes. Apple first started with the Power Books all the way from the beginning of their laptops. Then the iBook line was introduced. They then when through iBook and Power Book G3 and G4.
         The first is up to a ten hour battery life. The previous generation of Mac Book's had up to six hours of battery life. I think that the reason for this push is because Apple wants the Mac Book Pros to have similar battery to the iPad so consumers spend over $1000 rather than just $500.
      The next important upgrade on these computers  are the next generation of NVIDIA graphics. We first heard of NVIDIA on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 when Apple announced the new Mac Book. As the story goes, NVIDIA came to Apple very excited about creating an amazing graphics chip for desktops, NOT LAPTOPS. Apple, being very optimistic, helped them design an amazing, energy efficient, and very stable graphics chip. The biggest upgrade by far with these new computers is the graphics chip. Apple has now upgraded from Intel Core Duo's to Intel i7 and i5. These processors are so much faster than the Intel Core Duo's. They make the laptops even faster than they were before, even though they were already faster than the speed of light!
      Then, they redesigned their laptop brands completely. They got rid of the iBook brand and the Power Book brand and replaced them with the Mac Book and Mac Book Pro. The Mac Book Pros were always full metal, while the Mac Books were just black and white plastic.
In 2008,  Apple redesigned their Mac Book brand completely. They scrapped the plastic and went with an all metal unibody enclosure. This meant that instead of having many small parts that are very easy to break, they only had one large part that was very sturdy and light weight.
        They also redesigned the touchpad. Instead of having just you average track pad and button click, they turned the track pad into one complete glass structure, and now the whole track pad is the button. The next year, they combined the Mac Book and Mac Book Pro lines.
       They then just recently announced another upgrade to the Mac Book Pro computers. This upgrade has nothing to do with the outside of the machine, it is all internal. There were three main upgrades in this generation.