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Mac Soda’s Keynote Liveblog will kick off at 9:30 PST! I will be posting my thoughts on the event as it happens, so don’t miss out! You can also discuss parts of the event you like and don’t like via the comments.

Oh, and we will make sure to call Bingo if we get it…

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1:52- I have to be somewhere at 2:00. It doesn’t look like we’re gonna see anything else today folks! Thanks for reading… and send me an email if something amazing happens!

1:52- In stores… tomorrow!!!

1:50- Can’t wait to watch this keynote!

1:49- Will we ever have Blu-Ray on a Mac?!?

1:49- No matte finish. Whatever.

1:48- New MacBook Pro is hot… I really like it.

1:47- Documentary was made about the brick process… 9 to 5 Mac sure called this one!

1:45- Video being shown.

1:43- Basically, the new MacBooks are cheaper MacBook Pros.

1:42- 700 dollars more affordable. For those who wanted the 12 inch Powerbook, you got it!

1:42- What’s Steve gonna talk about for the rest of the keynote? Its only been 42 minutes!

1:42- 5 hour battery life.

1:40- Updated MacBook is the same as MacBook Pro… just smaller.

1:39- ”It is the best selling Mac… ever. We sell a ton of these, and people love the. They sell for $1099, and we’re gonna keep right on selling these, but we’re going to reduce the entry price to $999.” Ooh, so close Steve, but not low enough!

Right on Engadget. It should have been 800.

1:39- Where’s the 20 and 30 inchers?

1:38- Built in iSight! Built in Speakers! MagSafe! Mini Displayport! The end of the world is near! APPLE HAS             UPDATED THE CINEMA DISPLAY!!!

1:37- Oooooh!!! Ahhhhh!!!

1:36- “Also being revealed today is a 24-inch LED-backlit cinema display.”

Dang, the last minute predictions were spot on!

1:36- New Graphics, same price, early November availability.

1:35- ”We’re putting the 9400M in the Air, adding a 120GB hard drive, and we’ve got a 128GB SSD as an option — in addition we’re putting in a mini display port.”

1:34- Both are 15.4 inch screens. No 17.

1:33- My new computer…

1:33- 0.95 inches. Thinnest ever. Chunkier than I expected.

1:32- SSD option… no word on size yet.

1:31- Mystery port was just a battery indicator :-/

1:30- No Blu-Ray

1:30- 5 hours vs. 4 hours. Not too shabby!

1:29- Two chips!

“We’ve added a new chip from NVIDIA — the 9600M GT, 32 graphics cores, we’re including both the 9400 as integrated graphics, or choose the 9600M for big graphic performance. 5 hours of batter on the 9400, 4 on the 9600.”

1:28- Doesn’t bend at all!

1:27- Well it is incredibly light and thin. Really quite impressive. -Engadget

1:27- Made from one piece of aluminum!

1:26- Exactly the case that was leaked!

1:26- Engadget…

Precision unibody enclosure… exceptionally beautiful… much more rigid construction. We’re really happy about this.” Wow, Steve is going to pass around the shell to everyone. That’s kind of awesome. “We need them back.” Big laughs.

1:25- A ton of features!

1:24- Boom!

1:24- Last night’s leak was it…

1:23- New MacBook Pro!

1:23- Four finger gestures! My speculation was right! Just not a screen…

1:22- Button is entire pad!

1:21- Silky smooth travel, bigger space!

1:20- GLASS!!!!!!

1:20- Showing off gaming, with Intel at the bottom. Ouch!

1:20- Up to 6 times performance!!!

1:19- Nvidia GeForce 9400M is the final name.

1:18- We called it! Our guy was right! nVIDIA!!!

1:17- Steve’s on stage!

1:17- Seth Weintraub of 9 to 5 Mac nailed it!

1:16- 

Instead of starting with a thin piece of aluminum and adding more pieces to the structure, they’re now going to start from one piece of aluminum andremove pieces. This makes the structure stronger and more rigid.

Remove from one solid brick!

1:14- 

“For years, we’ve been looking for a better way in building a notebook. We had a really significant breakthrough that culiminated in the manufacture of [the MacBook Air].”

Ah…..

1:14- Current Notebooks are jippy in comparison with new ones.

1:13- These notebooks are gonna be tough!

1:12- Compare and contrast: building notebooks now, vs. later.

1:12- New way to build notebooks! Lasers and bricks perhaps? Johnny Ive, come tell us!

1:10- NOTEBOOKS!

1:10- Classic Photo

1:09- Come on Laptops…

1:09- More students using Macs then Dells. Victory!

1:08- I’m getting ancy…

1:07- Retail Stores are great… yes we know!!! WHAT ABOUT THE MACBOOKS!

1:06- Showing PC as King. Steve loves attacking Microsoft, doesn’t he?

1:05- Gotta love #4!

1:04- OS X is great, Vista is terrible… we get it! Where are the computers?!?

1:03- Windows on a Mac sends a shiver through Steve’s spine…

1:02- Talking about why Macs are so great… you don’t need to convince us!

1:01- Steve’s testing Tim Cook as an iCEO… State of the Mac.

1:00- We’ve got notebooks!

1:00- BOOM! STEVE’S HERE!!!

1:00- My brain is exploding!!!

12:59-  Lights are dimming!!!

12:59- 1 minute!!!!!!!

12:57- ”There’s a product on stage covered in a black cloth, which could be the new $899 Apple LED                        display we broke word of last night.” – AI

12:56- I’ve got all the feeds going! Thank you spaces!

12:55- 5 Minutes! Engadget’s in their seats…

12:53- Via Seth Weintraub…

Glass trackpads….I think we’ll (Steve and Mac people) need to have a little talk on how the mouse button’s time to die is now and how all of those years of not having two buttons was in preparation…I wonder how he’s going to deal with glossy screens…

I think you’re right!

12:51- Less than 10 minutes left. I’ve been waiting for this for almost 2 years!

12:50- I hope you’re right Bryan. I really hope you’re right.

12:48- Do you think we’ll see any suprises? iTablet? Mid-Size Mac? Brand new Cinema Displays (not just                 the 24 inch…)?

12:46- ARE YOU PUMPED?!? BECAUSE I AM!!!!!

12:44- Via Macrumors Forums

This is the best misinformed Keynote speculation ever!!

Good job Steve!

Amen to that! I have a feeling that a lot of this is fake… kind of like the false prototypes of the iPhone. 

But more likely, its real. 15 minutes, and we’ll all know!

12:39- @ Stephen Again

Absolutely it will be a dock. I can’t see any other possibilty. Why would Apple announce 1 display at their laptop event unless there was some integration? 

Answer: They wouldn’t.

However, this is not the brick. The brick is the manufacturing process. The iPods were rainbows, and the MacBooks are bricks. That’s the end of the story. Because they are made from a single brick of aluminum. 

12:36- If JG is to be believed, Apple’s stock will tank today. If Apple doesn’t release a budget laptop, their stock will plummet.

12:35- I went to the bathroom, got three water bottles, and a box of Cheese-Its. I’m good to go!

12:30- @ Stephen: 

I have a feeling that the 17 incher might be leaving, as sad as it is. Why, you might ask? Because Apple is going to switch to a 16:9 Aspect Ratio. This would mean that the 15 inch, will become a 16 inch, and the 17 inch will become an 18.4 inch. Apple must have decided that was too big and bulky, and came to the conclusion that one, 16 inch model would be much easier for the MacBook Pros than a 15 and a 17.

Where the story seems weird is when John Gruber says that they might keep selling the 17 inch MBP. That would baffle me, and would make Apple’s laptop lineup look more like Dell’s or HP’s than the classic, simplistic lineup we’re used to. I highly doubt this will materialize.

12:26- The rumors this morning and last night are extremely weird. Let’s hope for some surprises (which I’m sure we’ll get). What do you want out of the keynote?

12:25- I’m realizing the next 35 minutes is going to be the longest 35 minutes of my life.

12:24- I just printed my Bingo card

12:20- We just received another email from a Mac Soda reader…

hey there, i did some quick math, it could appear the photo of the new battery had the 17″ MBP in it. please see the attached photo.

I find it very hard to believe that the 17 inch MacBook Pro won’t get updated at all. The way things are going now, if you believe John Gruber, will give us the following at the end of the keynote.

MacBook: The same base model as now (yes, combo drive and jippy plastic), for 999.

MacBook Aluminum: A redesigned MacBook starting at 1299.

MacBook Air: Spec bump announced, available in January.

MacBook Pro 15 inch: Completely redesigned, according to the pics we saw.

MacBook Pro 17 inch: Exactly the same.

In my eyes, this is way too much variance in the laptop line. I was looking for this event to narrow the gap between the notebooks, not further it. If all this is true, I will find it very weird.

 

12:15- We just received this email from a Mac Soda reader…

That Pics a fakey my freind good job you didnt post it

Ive found two things which are true, my source works in the finance department
now they have heard no news of relasing a macbook at $800, or at any other price

The Prices for the Laptops will remain the same I repeat will remain the same

We’ll know very shortly whether he’s right or not!

12:10- Welcome to the 1st ever, Mac Soda Live Blog. While, amazingly enough, we weren’t invited to the event, we still are going to comment on it!