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The long-awaited -- and perhaps overdue -- refresh to the MacBook Pro lineup finally came Tuesday morning, and along with it, a laptop surprise: Apple beefed up its consumer-grade MacBooks too. The announcements set the Apple-focused blog world on fire, with some commenters noting they were just happy to see the MacBook Pro holdouts finally get something they could spring for.

Mac Bloggers Toast iTunes, Probe Penryn Processors, Sweat iPhone SDK

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Shares of Apple rose Thursday morning after the iPod maker reiterated expectations to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, leading an analyst to maintain a top rating. The stock added $4.94, or 4 percent, to $127.90 in morning trading. Goldman Sachs analyst David C. Bailey met with Apple's operating chief, Tim Cook, at the Goldman Sachs Technology Symposium Wednesday, and said that growth opportunities remain for the company.

Apple Shares Jump on Product Strength Optimism

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When Apple first introduced its iPod touch -- a media player that uses the same cool touch technology as the breakthrough iPhone -- I was both intrigued and disappointed. While I didn't care much for the iPhone itself the notion of a touch-based device that focuses just on movies, music and WiFi Web access called to me. What gave me pause, though, was its limited storage capacity and price.

32 GB iPod Touch: Best in Class, If Not Value

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In an effort to create artificial tension for their readership or to cater to the RDFs of Apple and Microsoft, some are arguing that Blu-ray will now have to fight an uphill battle against Internet downloads. That's all pure baloney. First, it's going to be many years before Internet downloads can compete with Blu-ray discs in terms of bit rate and video quality.

Don't Hold Your Breath for iTunes to Kill Blu-ray

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Apple's online iTunes music store is now the number-two music retailer in the U.S. behind Wal-Mart Stores as measured by unit volume, market researcher NPD Group said Tuesday. NPD said that iTunes moved into second place due to the amount of music it sold during 2007, which was based on a 12-track CD equivalency for song downloads.

iTunes Rises to No. 2 Music Retailer Spot as As CDs Drift Away