Yesterday, Apple released their latest incarnation of their Macbook range.

Cut from a solid piece of aluminium it has the looks, certainly the bottom end of the range 13″ laptop looks much better than its black/white plastic forerunner. Slightly slimmer in height, with improved processor, graphics and few other components the machine looks nice.

One nice feature, is the glass touch pad, technology from the iphone. This is probably the laptops best new feature, supporting 1, 2, 3 and 4 finger gestures. The back lit keyboard is nice too.

But probably not enough to want me to upgrade from by current macbook. It is my second laptop anyway so new features don’t really give enough.

Apple seem to be singing the praises of the new build technique, milling the case from solid aluminium, it is nice, but since when was the case the most important technological achievement when talking about a computer. Surely the Hardware and Software are the key components. Maybe I’m missing something, lets make it Hardware, Software and Case in future.

Don’t misunderstand me, I do like it, but can’t we concentrate on what’s inside.

What I would really like is an Apple Tablet. Their has been lots of talk about the tablet over the last couple of years, but still no sign. I can dream…

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