A busy Thursday for Apple intend a special edition of the Macworld Podcast , as we discuss all the intersection news coming out of Cupertino this workweek . I ’m joined by senior editor in chief Christopher Breen and Roman Loyola to spill the beans about thenew MacBook Prosreleased Thursday and the Thunderbolt port that highlights the changes to Apple ’s laptop computer .

We also talk about the novel detail Apple revealed about Mac OS X Lion , which will be available to consumers this summer . ( A developer release of the novel atomic number 8 get out Thursday . ) And we wrap up with a little speculation about next Wednesday ’s Apple event .

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Show Notes

The latest MacBook professional featureIntel ’s Sandy Bridge processorsand ameliorate graphics . But the actual highlight is a Modern connectivity standard dubbed Thunderbolt . you’re able to obtain out all about this peripheral - link engineering science in our templet to Thunderbolt .

In addition to MacBook Pro update and the Lion developer release , Apple also bring out a new translation of its FaceTime TV - conferencing app to the Mac App Store . We discourse that briefly in the podcast .

As for next week ’s Apple event , it ’s almost certain to focus on a new iPad . We took the liberty of suggesting 11 feature we ’d like to see Apple incorporate into the new model .

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