Apple intros new MacBooks, 24" LED Cinema Display

Apple has announced its new range of MacBooks and its first LED backlit Cinema Display at a press conference at its Cupertino headquarters.

The company presented new 13.3" MacBook and 15.4" MacBook Pro designs – the chassis are, like the rumours suggested, built from a solid block of aluminium.

There were two new MacBook Pro models announced, both featuring a 15.4" LED-backlit display with a glossy covering that will undoubtedly split opinion down the middle. What's more there's no matte option available with any of the new MacBooks – it's clearly going to be a love-it-or-hate-it affair.

The priciest model comes in at £1,749 (inc. VAT) and features a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo (6MB L2 cache), 4GB of DDR3 1,066MHz memory, a 320GB hard drive, a GeForce 9400M integrated graphics chipset and a GeForce 9600M GT 512MB discrete graphics card.

The cheaper MacBook Pro comes in at £1,399 (inc. VAT) and features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo (3MB L2 cache), 2GB of DDR3 1,066MHz memory, a 250GB hard drive, a GeForce 9400M IGP and a GeForce 9600M GT 256MB discrete graphics card.

Both weigh 2.5kg, feature a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a Firewire 800 port, a mini-DisplayPort socket, Gigabit Ethernet, integrated 802.11n WiFi, a built-in iSight camera and everything else you'd come to expect. There's one thing you won't be familiar with though, and that's the button-less multi-touch glass trackpad – there are no buttons and you tap the trackpad instead of clicking a trackpad button.

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