NEWS FLASH: Apple releases new, highly anticipated, innovative products that get a lot of attention.

I've heard from a lot of our readers for our upcoming Top 100 Products issue (look for it in mid-January) that they love their Mac laptops. So the big releases yesterday should really get you excited. More powerful, smaller and more compact, with cool new features.
The new MacBook laptop has a 13-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor up to 2.4GHz, hard drive up to 320GB or 128GB solid state, Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics chip, weighs 4.5 pounds, and starts at $1299. The larger MacBook Pro  has a 15.4-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor up to 2.8GHz, weighs 5.5 pounds and starts at $1999. Both are less than an inch thick!
The features that really get everyone's attention, though are those like the "multi-touch glass trackpad," for example, which enables you to use multiple fingers to pinch, rotate, zoom in, or scroll through photos or other files. And dispenses with a trackpad button entirely, kinda like an iPhone screen. Pretty neat, though I wonder if it can get frustrating and confusing to use. One early reviewer called it "surprisingly usable," which isn't all that reassuring. The other feature touted by Apple is the manufacturing process: each chassis is carved from a single brick of aluminum, making them more solid and durable. I can only exclaim "Apple!" which translates as "Wow, that's cool!" and "Wow, that's expensive!" simultaneously.