From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"RobertB"  wrote in message
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> In article ,
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
>
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>> one can rest on one's laurels and let the competition catch up - only
>> several more weeks till the Macworld Expo though and hopefully they'll
>> announce more than the expected HDMI displays.   - keeping my fingers
>> crossed for the rumored ultra thin Macbook Pro
>
> How thin is thin? The current slate of MacBook Pros are about 3/4 inch
> thick from what I last saw. Not as heavy as the older  models  also. My
> friend just bought a refurbed MacBookPro, a coreduo model. Very nice
> machine.

I haven't seen any site that gives any measurements - just the words ultra
thin and ultra portable and shipped sometime in 2007
http://www.macosrumors.com/20061210-1A.html


We can unequivocably confirm that such an ultraportable Macintel laptop
exists -- not only that it exists, but that recent rumblings on the
grapevine have been unusually close to the mark.

The key mission of the "Thin" project was to scale down the size
of Pro features without compromising them. The Thin is intended to be the
fastest, most feature-rich ultraportable laptop on the market.

Without further ado, here are the specs we have been told to expect based
on exhaustive recon from trusted sources in Cupertino and Southeast Asia:

    * "Macbook Thin" -- spec-wise, primarily a variant of the Pro
family but
will probably be branded as separate from the standard *or* Pro MacBook
families. Shipping name is unconfirmed.
    * 12-inch widescreen display, 1280x800 resolution.
    * 2.16 or 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors
    * 1GB of DDR2-667 memory standard. Max. capacity 3GB.
    * Standard "Pro" ports: USB2, Firewire 400 & 800, Gigabit Ethernet,
Digital/Analog Audio minijack I/O ports.
    * ExpressCard expansion slot (believed to be /34 type)
    * Similar storage to "Pro": 2.5in SATA HDDs at 120GB &
up, 'Combo' or
'Super' optical drive.
    * ATi Radeon Mobility X1600 or nVIDIA GeForce GO 7600 graphics systems
with 256MB of VRAM.
    * Mini-DVI display connector with full second display capabilities
    * Of course, Built-in iSight, stereo microphone, Airport Extreme and
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR.
    * Battery life is expected to be "best in class" at about 6.5 hours
real-world, some reports have suggested up to 8 hours is possible.

All in all, a very solid new offering....the real question, at this time,
is when it will ship. Right now the lineup of new non-Mac products at
Macworld San Francisco that Apple will be introducing is so jam-packed with
iPhone and iTV (new high-end iPods are expected to be announced several
weeks later) plus several new software packages and an updated Leopard
Preview that many rumor-mongers are skeptical about a MacBook Thin
announcement the same day....but either way, it's not too much longer to
wait now.

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