Apple Site Update Reveals New Core i7 iMac, LED MacBook and Multitouch Magic Mouse

Today is a big day for Apple fans because Apple has updated its site to showcase the updated lineup of products. That includes quite a few new developments, including a multitouch mouse, Core i7 chips in the iMac, unibody LED MacBooks and an updated Mac Mini. Read on for the full rundown.

Let’s start big and then work our way down to small. That means starting with the new iMacs, which are coming in 21.5- and 27-inch models with gorgeous displays that run all the way to the edge of the device (well, the glass part of the display, actually, not the pixels themselves). The display is LED backlit and the DisplayPort can make it behave as a second screen (why you’d want to do that is another matter). The processor options have been improved, so now you can choose from Corei5 and i7 quad-core chips or the Core 2 Duo, both from Intel. You can also get up to 16GB of RAM in this thing.

Next, we have the MacBook, which was left all alone when all of Apple’s other laptops migrated to the MacBook Pro party. The little white MacBook seems to be staying for a while longer with this most recent update. It’s $1000 and now includes the unibody design, rubberized bottom (no slippage here), multitouch trackpad, LED backlit screen and a non-replaceable battery like it’s Pro cousins. The internal hardware has gotten a nice upgrade too. There’s a 2.26GHz processor, 250GB hard drive and 2GB of DDR3 RAM. A nice improvement all around.

Next on the list of largest to smallest is the Mac Mini upgrade. The Mac Mini server has traded in the optical drive for an extra hard drive, so how it comes with two 500GB hard disks. Also included is the 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM and a GeForce 9400M graphics card for $1000. There are still the $800 and $600 versions with specs that scale down according to price.

And finally, we have the smallest new device to grace Apple’s site, the Magic Mouse. While the rest of the product announcements are all just updated versions of previous products, the Magic Mouse is a truly new device. It changes the entire concept of mouse navigation by making the top surface of the mouse a single button that is touch sensitive. You move it around and click just like any mouse you’re using today, but instead of using a scroll wheel you simply sweep a finger up and down or side to side to scroll around the screen. You can use two finger gestures to move back and forth in your browser history, and there’s even a right click option for opening up shortcut menus. It looks to be very accurate, but I think it might take the average user some time to get used to swiping the top of their mouse without actually moving it. The mouse is wireless, and is supposed to run for 4 months on a set of AA batteries.

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