The glossy 15.4‑inch LED panel looks vibrant behind its glass enclosure, set against a black border that effortlessly disguises the built‑in iSight camera. The screen has also been redesigned, incorporating a new magnetic latch, and follows the same aluminium‑plus‑glass approach originally introduced with the current iMac incarnation. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have accidentally dropped such a prized possession, only to find odd parts of the metal skin protruding in a most unseemly fashion, so I'm grateful that such deformation will no longer be an issue.

When you see the new 15-inch MacBook Pro, the result is an impressively slick and stylish appearance but perhaps the best quality will be evident to any owner of an older aluminium‑based Apple laptop. According to Ives, the resulting enclosure, which Apple are calling a 'unibody' enclosure, not only makes it possible to create a lighter and stronger part, but the scraps of aluminium left over are easily recycled, making the process environmentally friendly. For Apple's new laptop design, however, the company's engineers devised a way of manufacturing the product from a single block of aluminium, where the internal structure is essentially carved out by a machining process.

With the previous laptops Apple have manufactured from aluminium, they would start with multiple parts to make the internal structure, which keeps the various components of the system in place, and then wrap this in a thin layer of aluminium. Ives teased the audience by commenting that 'for years we've been looking for a better way of building a notebook, and we think we've found it.' The new MacBook Pro represents the first major design shift for the company's professional line of laptops in five years, and during the presentation Jobs invited Jonathan Ives, Apple's celebrated Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, to discuss the new approach. In addition to announcing minor improvements to the 17‑inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, Steve Jobs took the stage at a recent Apple special event to introduce brand‑new models of both the 15‑inch MacBook Pro and the MacBook. Photo: AppleĪccording to the date on the cover of the magazine you're reading, it's a new year, and there's also a new line‑up of laptops from Apple, bringing 2008 - a year that started with new laptop technology in the form of the MacBook Air - full circle. The new 15‑inch MacBook Pro offers an innovative 'unibody' aluminium enclosure and offers mobile users performance that matches its impressive looks. We consider the good, the bad, and the incompatible. Despite offering powerful new features and an innovative design, Apple's new MacBook and MacBook Pro could pose problems for musicians dependent on Firewire audio interfaces.

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