Prince McLean, AppleInsider

The new 17“ MacBook Pro claims an industry leading 8 hours of battery life, thanks to a series of innovations Apple highlighted in the new notebook’s introduction. Even so, many of the advancements are not actually new, but rather the product of Apple’s incremental engineering efforts to increase its notebooks’ usability and desirability by thinking differently.

A closer look at Apple’s advanced notebook battery tech

Prince McLean, AppleInsider

It was no surprise to see a unibody refresh of the 17“ MacBook Pro; many wondered why the model wasn’t included with the 13” MacBook and 15“ MacBook Pro released last fall. Apple’s belated high end notebook refresh did give Phil Schiller ”one more thing“ to introduce in his keynote however

First look: unibody 17” MacBook Pro (with photos and video)
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Daniel Eran Dilger

Predictably, there was great disappointment with Macworld Expo 09. But when has there not been, outside of the iPhone announcement (which many pundits tried their best to blow off as too expensive and likely to be immediately copied by more entrenched smartphone competitors)?
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Prince McLean, AppleInsider

While bowing to studio pressure to offer variable pricing on iTunes tracks, Apple has also finally convinced all the big labels to release their music as DRM-free ‘iTunes Plus’ tracks at the same 99 cents.

iTunes Store goes DRM Free, offers over-the-air downloads