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New shiny shiny macbook coming april, also cool watches from tech giant.
SHINY HAPPY MACBOOK
-- Weighing in at just 2 pounds and with no fan or other moving parts, it's the lightest, thinnest and quietest Apple laptop yet, with "all-day" battery life, which Apple defines as 9 hours of web browsing and 10 hours of iTunes movie playback.
-- Comes in three colors: silver, "space gray" and - wait for it - gold.
-- Control it with a new pressure-sensitive track pad. Screen has the 12-inch higher-resolution Retina display now available only in higher-end, heavier MacBook Pros.
-- Charge it with a new kind of connector cable and port, "USB-C," that combines power with functions now requiring HDMI, VGA or USB connections.
-- Feel good about it: Apple touts its environmental friendliness (no PVCs, mercury, or beryllium) and says it will be the most energy-efficient laptop on the market.
-- Shipping April 10, it starts at $1,299 with 256 gigabytes of storage. A faster processor and double the storage can be had for $1,599.
-- Apple will still make its MacBook Air and Pro models. Upgrades were released Monday.
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