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June WWDC updates

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Here's some of the updates from the recent WWDC yesterday.

Apple Revamps Entire MacBook Pro Line
Apple's laptops see a significant speed boost, up to 3.06GHz with an Intel Core 2 Duo. They include up to 8GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive or 250GB solid-state drive, and Nvidia 9400M integrated graphics. Higher end laptops add a dedicated Nvidia 9600M GT chipset for faster visual processing.

Safari 4 is out of Beta
Safari browser is now ready for prime time! Go download now. Improvements include speedier performance and a host of stability enhancements. Go download now.

iPhone 3G S Out June 19 in $199 and $299 Models
New iPhone with a improvements to hardware and speed is due out Jun 19th in the U.S. - will feature, 3MP autofocus camera, improved photo quality and video recording - video clips record at 30 frames-per-second, filling 640x480 pixels, and you will have the ability to edit video clips in a simple manner!

Snow Leopard Will Ship in September for $29
Snow Leopard rewrites more of the underlying technology to utilize 64-bit chips and otherwise boost speeds. Apple touts speed improvements to Mail, Preview, the Finder, the installation process, and more.

Improved multi-core support will let the OS dynamically manage multi-core threads. With Leopard, an idle program can hog the ability for the multi-core chips to execute instructions--individual treads. Snow Leopard allocates these threads so that idle apps don't waste resources.

MacBook Air Prices chopped by $700
Phil Schiller also announced a major price cut on the MacBook Air.