Apple Refresh today

Apple refreshes a large majority of its computer products today. All are more energy efficient and push past the Energy Star 5.0 requirements.

All pictures taken from Apple's main site.

Apple redesigns its white plastic notebook. It's more oval-y.

• Also it's unibody like the aluminum ones. This means no removable battery. Dead batteries can be replaced for $129, which includes installation and environmentally responsible disposal of old battery.
• The bottom side has a non-skid surface.
• Glass multi-touch trackpad; same as aluminum unibody macs.
• New mag safe power adapter. Well, it's not new, but it's the same one as the Air and is more durable.
• New 7 hour battery life span. LED display. still 13.3 inch screen size.
• Still no SD card slot, 2 USB and mini display port. Not many ports unfortunately.
• Supports 4 GB of ram now (may have done this before, wasn't really paying attention).
• Same dual core 2.26 GHz processor, but now comes with 250 GB of HDD space.

Still for $999. No price cut.

iMacs

iMacs have better displays. They're edge to edge glass and now 16:9 aspect ratio. Smaller iMac is now 1080p compatible, the bigger one has (obviously) higher resolution. So sharper image all around. They're also now LED using IPS technology. That means that color consistency is more accurate and the display now has a 178 degree viewing angle. There's a new SD Card slot. I think the backs are now aluminum too, not black, as they previously were. Firewire six pin 400 is removed.

Power Tripin'

Offers up to 2 TBs, 16 GB of DDR3 ram, both dual and quad core. ATI Radeon 4670 and 512MB of GDDR3 for 4850 on the 27 inch models, integrated Nvidia GeForce 9400m, 256 MB GDDR3 for ATI 4670 for the smaller iMac.

Quad core comes in i5 and i7 flavors. Dual cores come in 3.06 GHz intel core 2 duo with 3 MB cache or 3.33GHz with 6 MB of cache for the 21.5 inch iMac.

27 has quads that goes with the 2.66 GHz quad core i5 with 8MB of shared L3 Cache and 2.8 quad core i7 with same cache. Turbo Boost is imbedded in the mac programming processors that allows it to turn off cores that aren't being used, to boost the speed of the cores that are being used. Turbo Boost makes the i5 3.2 GHz, and the i7 3.4 GHz.

Price for new iMac starts at $1,199 for 21.5 in and $1,699 for 27 in.

Both iMacs are even more energy efficient and more green friendly than before; has something to do with how they develop the software and the hardware, so they can better integrate the performance for you.

You can do anything if Magic Made it

New wireless mouse; called Magic Mouse. Its multi-touch on a mouse, it recognizes gestures, scroll any where (in any direction), swipe (which is a mac function that allows you to either go back or forward a page or view pictures through), and zoom to magnify the screen. Click anywhere, because the entire thing is a button. Top right corner is designated for right clicking, but it can be switched through system controls on the operating system. It uses a new laser tracking engine so that it can be used on multiple surfaces. It uses bluetooth to connect.

RIDICULOUS. Priced @ $69.

Stronger Mac Mini

Just faster processor and more space. No design changes.

Curiously

There is no updates to the Mac Pro.

Remotely Possible

Ironically, the smallest things posted, have the largest pictures.

Apple secretly let this slide by, but they released a new remote for their laptops and iMacs, except it now works with an iPod or iPhone, if they're connected to an iPod Universal dock. Made of aluminum now, instead of plastic, it just looks like weird knock off iPod.

It works with all the previous mac models. Also, the battery is much easier to change.

Edit: I will be constantly changing information on this post, as long as information keeps trickling in, so feel free to check in randomly all day. This is probably going to be the only post I do today.