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As usual, it seems to be time for they frequent and rather unanounced/secretive. This latest lineup includes faster processors and better graphics, along with new hard drive brackets (in the sense of tiers, not affixing). It’s another one of their ‘fairly big improvements, but secretive updates’ that I suppose would annoy those that had recently bought a very expensive and powerful MacBook Pro. But hey, that’s the risk you take with Apple. I guess die-hard fans should be happy they got 16 months of the iPhone 4 being the latest rather than the tyical 12 months and then the next update being rather insignificant. Is it though? I think it does bring several better feautures to the table, the camera alone.

As you probably know, Steve Jobs took a medical leave of absence and is still away (and apparently getting worse). Normally for these recent updates we would expect some news, a brief keynote at most, that could have coincided with the imminent iPad 2 launch. Anyway, Apple has launched their new generation of MacBook Pros! They sound pretty cool, and from what I could see, same base price (couldn’t get further dues to the iconic updating).

So, can’t wait for them and hopefully I will buy one this year to release me from the clutches of a five year old HP laptop. Don’t worry, I would still run Windows under bootcamp, as I can’t live without it. Also announced (allegedly) is that there is no more Mac OS Server Edition! That’s right, it’ll be part of Mac OS Lion, thus completely killing the small gap that so many compared to Microsoft’s many versions/tiers of Windows.