All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links.
As promised by yesterday's leak from Vietnam, Apple has updated the plastic unibody MacBook. The new model, which appears on Apple's traditional new hardware day - Tuesday - gets the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor and the new aluminum MagSafe power-cord. It also gets another feature not revealed in the inexplicably leaked Vietnamese MacBook: a claimed ten-hour battery-life.
The battery life estimates keep on growing as Apple squeezes better power management out of its machines, but the biggie for buyers of the $1,000 MacBook is the new graphics chip, which is made by NVIDIA exclusively for Apple and also found in the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The 320M shares system memory and uses PureVideo HD to decode hi-def video within the GPU, helping to keep the fans from spinning up when watching video with compatible apps.
The new MacBook is available now, in Vietnam and elsewhere.
MacBook [Apple]
See Also:
- New, Faster, Unreleased MacBook Shows up in Vietnam
- New MacBook Pro: 10-Hour Battery, Hi-Res Screen, i7 CPU
- Chinese MacBook Air Knockoffs Actually Look Awesome
See Also:
