“The Spotlight Turns To Notebooks”

Seth Weintraub of Apple Ink is beating his chest about the fact that his predictions were right. Apple DID finally send out invitations on Thursday of last week for an event to take place this Tuesday. And based on the invitation, which says “The spotlight turns to notebooks”, it would appear that all those predictions about the new portable Macs were right.

Predictions are still being made about the pricing of the new Macs. Pipe Jaffray predicts they will start lower, at $899 (U.S.). The Inquisitr goes lower, saying they’ll start at $799. Given these economic times, a lower priced notebook would certainly be welcome.

Another guess, and this one belongs to Weintraub, is that the motherboards will now be NVIDIA based, with the top of the line Intel Centrino 2 chips. Design changes have also been guessed at, with the most frequent guess being that Apple will shift to aluminum MacBooks, or a combined plastic/aluminum two-tone look. All the models will be thinner.

Weintraub states that no matter what the exact changes will be, one thing is for certain. That is that they will inherit the sexiness of the MacBook Air. We’ll all know by Tuesday, 10 a.m. Cupertino Time, and will be writing about the news here. So stay tuned!