At its Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple introduced laptops influenced by the iPad with new Intel and Nvidia technologies. A super-thin next-generation MacBook, says Apple, is the best notebook it’s ever made.
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference kicked off with a number of device introductions, including updates to its MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lineups, as well as an iPad-like, next-generation laptop that Apple—in a move as awkward as deciding to call the third-generation iPad “the Pad,” instead of the iPad 3—is calling the “the next-generation MacBook."
The latter—the most fun of these notebook announcements—is as thin as the MacBook Air, at 0.71 inches. In building it, Apple executives said they figured out how to eliminate the need for a separate glass cover. It weighs 4.46 pounds and features a 15.4-inch display that, like that newest iPad, is a Retina display with a resolution of 2880 by 1800 pixels. It’s the world’s highest-resolution notebook, according to Apple.
“The pixels are so small that your retina cannot discern them,” Apple’s Phil Schiller told the WWDC crowd, according to the live blog from The Verge. Read More
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