The new Apple MacBook Pro (MB604B/A) has a long battery life that lasts up to 8 hours on a single recharge. Unlike most other notebooks, its extra long battery life is this machine’s special feature. Despite being thin and ultra mobile, the notebook has a bigger battery designed and built into the computer so that it saves on space. It offers a LED-backlit 17 inch widescreen display with a resolution of 1920X1200. This high resolution screen offers a richer and more vibrant colours and better brightness too. With high quality images and videos, it is visual delight to watch images and videos on this screen. The glass enclosure of the laptop makes the display stronger and more durable. Moreover, the glass is eco-friendly since it is arsenic-free and mercury-free. The environmentally friendly notebook’s body has been designed out of a single block of aluminium and is extremely slim and streamlined. Just 0.98 inches thin, MacBook Pro is one of the world’s thinnest and lightest 17-inch notebook.

High on graphics, the notebook offers a high-speed, high-end game-playing power. It is equipped with graphics-intensive applications like Aperture and Motion. It also uses the new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processor for an amazing performance. Completely mobile, the Apple MacBook Pro (MB604B/A) laptop has the latest 802.11n wireless technology built into it. At the click of a button, you can surf the Internet, send email, video chat, print, stream your music and much more. Bluetooth and webcam are other built-in features of this Apple MacBook, which comes with a one year warranty.

It seems as if computer manufacturers the world over have been infected by the Eee PC craze. Only months after the surprising and stunning success of the Eee PC subnotebook, or netbook, an entire new laptop genre was created, with every major computer maker struggling to announce their own competitive model. Recently Lenovo, and Fujitsu-Siemens Computers joined the ranks of companies like Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, and HP, by announcing their Netbooks. It appears as though no computer manufacturer has been left untouched, or are we forgetting one major player; namely, Apple? One might think Apple already has their own dedicated market and the company doesn’t need to get involved in the cheap netbook market, however, recent rumours and assertions by top analysts claim Apple has also been infected by the netbook virus; with their own Apple netbook planned for a 2009 release.

USB analyst Maynard Um has questioned his sources in the industry and believes Apple will upgrade and update its MacBook by the end of this year. Furthermore, he goes on to claim the next generation MacBook will be a true subnotebook, not like the MacBook Air. While the Apple MacBook Air is thin and light, its 13 inch screen is relatively large. The advantage of netbooks like the Eee PC, despite the reduced performance, is that they are easily transportable in small personal bags, and can be effortlessly opened in small spaces with no hassle.

If the appearance of “Hackintosh” netbooks is any indication, there is ample demand for a smaller Mac: Leopard has already been successfully installed on the Eee PC, MSI Wind and other devices. On the hand, all of these netbooks occupy the lowest price range, something Mac computers are not known for. According to the Analyst Um, the Apple netbook was originally slated for a 2008 release, but will be delayed to 2009.

With this prediction UBS has certainly started the rumour mills, and only time, or confirmations by Apple, will tell how accurate the assertions prove to be.