At the WWDC today, Apple announced that its game complete revamp of laptops. First news: the MacBook disappearance, they are all MacBook Pro now, even the little 13 “. They are all made of aluminum unibody enclosure and are all equipped with the new battery to battery life (7 hours according to Apple). Apple also continues to improve its environmental record in introducing computers almost entirely recyclable and even less energy.

MacBook Pro

The most interesting new feature for photographers is the new backlit LED screen is brighter and expanded the color range of 60% compared to previous versions. In terms of graphics, it remains the same as the previous generation of MacBook is the Nvidia 9400M. Some models of 15 “and all models 17″ are also provided with a second graphics processor (higher), the NVidia 9600M GT delivers impressive graphics performance.

Summary of Features:

* 1 FireWire 800 port, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 1 port MiniDisplay, an Ethernet port, Input / Output Audio
* 1 slot for SD cards (new)
* WLAN 802.11N and Bluetooth connectivity
* SuperDrive 8X Double Layer
* ISight camera
* Hard drive up to 500GB (or 250GB SSD up)
* Up to 8GB of memory clocked at 1066 MHz
* Intel Core 2 Duo up to 3.06GHz with FSB 1066 MHz
* Touchpad Multi-touch
* Backlit Keyboard

Video Cards

* NVidia 9400M and 9600M GT
* LED backlit display with a range of color 60% larger

Apple also announced an update to the MacBook Air and a decrease in its cost base. Always thin, but also more efficient.

MacBook Pro

More than a year and a half is the period during which the 8800 GTX is still what we may call high-end NVIDIA. Now of course, six months after its release, and happy coincidence, just before the arrival of the R600, we saw land a 8800 Ultra with slightly higher frequencies, but nothing Folichon. There are two and a half months, the arrival of the 9800 GTX foreshadowed a substantial increase in performance but in the end the card offered only limited profit on our good old GTX and was behind the Ultra version. If the owners of these cards could rejoice in their investment, there was still time to propose more than a few MHz scraped here and there or to use combinations of two GPUs on one card.

GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA finally heard us: the GTX 280 offers the first real reworking of the architecture G8x. We know now the modus operandi of the Californian firm: introduce a new architecture on a proven method of engraving. Indeed, given the often high number of transistors the chip is expensive to produce and using the cards are still expensive but it can occupy the land. During the years following NVIDIA derives its architecture on the whole segment of the range by using an etching finer but less optimized for high frequencies. Finally when the new process is controlled NVIDIA actually enjoy premium sound that becomes more affordable. We saw it with the G70/G71, G80/G92 and the history repeats itself: here is the GT200, a real monster of 1.4 billion transistors engraved at 0.65µm.