I quizzed the Apple rep who was showing off the new MacBook Pro, but he himself hadn't been briefed on it yet. So, there appears to be no word on what the battery life is going to be (Apple may still be testing and tweaking it, was the claim). I did learn that the new 'book has 2 USB ports, one FireWire 400 (gone is the FireWire 800 port), and that is about it. There is no built-in modem, instead you are supposed to use the $50 USB modem that Apple released alongside the new iMac.
That is really fine for me - it has been a long time since I have used a modem.
The size is basically the same as the PowerBook that I have now. It is slightly slimmer, but not by a whole lot. What is amazing is that the integrated iSight doesn't appear to have made the display any thicker. there is some extra space at the top of the display (the border is thicker at the top), which looks a little odd, but that's all. Apple did some amazing engineering in order to shoe-horn that camera in there.
I plan on going by there again to poke on the MacBook in depth, once the crowds dissipate some.
-Andy.
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