October 14 MacBook Event Confirmed

Written on October 09, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 20 people have commented

Members of the media have just received word that the rumored October 14 MacBook event is rumor no more. Invitations sent by Apple’s PR department confirm that next Tuesday will see a special event hosted by the company at its Cupertino campus.

The image sent with the email and the tagline “The spotlight turns to notebooks” confirm that the event will indeed see a much-anticipated refresh of the company’s laptop line. While it’s not entirely clear in the picture, the finish on the MacBook lid does appear to support rumors of all-aluminum casing.

Once again, here’s a quick breakdown of the rumors circulating:

New models and price points, from 8 to 12 base configurations ranging from $800-$3100
New manufacturing process and facility to produce notebook casings from a single block of solid aluminum
Wider touchpads, slimmer casing, and keyboards matching that found in the MacBook Air
Nvidia integrated GPUs in MacBook line
Possibility of in-built screens in touchpads
Possibility of tablet-type Mac introduction (sadly seems unlikely)

What are you hoping for?

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Comments (9)

Alistair Kerr on October 9th, 2008 at 11:56 am

I’m hoping for a puppy! But seriously I just want something faster, sexier and that works all day, battery life using Photoshop is still a joke. I’d like to see the price tumble a bit to, every other manufacturer seams to be doing it.

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Jack Mottram on October 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

I’m hoping they *don’t* come out with a nice little netbook – if they did, it would be impossible to resist buying one to replace my Eee PC.

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Brian Warren on October 9th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

I’d love to see LED displays across the line, a high resolution option for both the 15″ and the 17″ (only in 17″ at the moment).

Megabonus would be 3G networking as well.

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Brandon Eley on October 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

I’m looking forward to new MacBook Pros. A “netbook” and tablet would be useless for me but I think it would be neat to see them.

I’ll be upgrading my computer in the next year, so I’m looking forward to new MacBook Pros with multi-touch, maybe visual trackpads. I also really like the keyboard on the MBA and am hoping it makes its way into the new MBP.

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BJ Clark on October 9th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

I think everyone is over looking “Notebook”.

They didn’t say MacBook. They say Notebook. WTF is that?

I’d say we see something that’s not a MacBook, or the MacBooks go bye bye to make way for another product line/product name.

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Flavio Mac on October 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

I’m hoping for an isight camera built-in behing the screen enabling eye-contact chats.

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Edgar on October 10th, 2008 at 1:24 am

“They didn’t say MacBook. They say Notebook. WTF is that?”
Not true…they said “The spotlight turns to notebooks” meaning portable computers in general..could be macbook, macbook pro or possibly a whole new unit

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George Gavrielides on October 12th, 2008 at 9:36 am

According to my source, on tuesday the 14th Steve Jobs will release SNOW LEOPARD.

George Gavrielides
Latsia
Cyprus

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SysRq on October 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

I haven’t heard anyone else talking about Snow Leopard, it’d be a stretch in my opinion.

Cheers,
~SysRq

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