Evening all!

We've had a revision of the MacBook Pro range tonight with quite a few spec bumps across the overall line. The results are a *very* nice set offerings with increased CPU power and hard drive space, a larger cache, more hard drive space, a faster optical drive, and did I mention the heaps of hard drive space?

MacBook Pro...

These new machines now step up to the plate with a 2.16GHz or 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a maximum of 3GB of RAM as an optioned upgrade in 2 slots, 4MB shared L2 cache for a reported 39% speed increase, up to 200GB of Hard Drive space (!), a 6x or 8x double-layer-burning SuperDrive AND the re-introduction of Firewire 800 across the board. This is the most fantastic offering in the professional portable environment to date and I'm pleased to report there have been no price increases!

MacBook Pro - 2.16GHzIC2D/15"/1GB/120GB/6xDL Superdrive
$3,199 inc  

MacBook Pro - 2.33GHzIC2D/15"/2GB/120GB/6xDL Superdrive
$3,999 inc

MacBook Pro - 2.33GHzIC2D/17"/2GB/160GB/8xDL Superdrive
$4,399 inc

http://www.apple.com/au/macbookpro/

Airline Power Adapter...

Also of interest is the release of the Magsafe Airline Power Adapter.
"With a MagSafe Airline Power Adapter, you'll never again worry about losing power while traveling. Just plug it into your airline seat power port and keep your MacBook or MacBook Pro powered up for the entire flight."

Magsafe Airline - Power Adapter
$89 inc

What on earth is 'perpendicular recording'...

Firstly, Perpendicular recording is a relatively new technology introduced in Jan '06 which finally brought us away from the restrictions on longitudinal recording laptop drives in which we were restricted to 120GB MAX in 2.5" size drives.

Perpendicular recording is a new means of orientating the bytes of data on the hard drive platter, 'perpendicularly' rather the 'longitudinally' as historically has been done.
In a nutshell imagine standing each byte up-right instead of laying them down thus allowing up to 10x the storage in the same special area.

For a basic and easily understandable explanation please visit this link...

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/...