14 DAY TRIAL // Not more than a week ago, we heard from Apple that they're planning to release two new models of MacBook Pro models (a 15- and a 17-inch one), new versions that will feature the multi-touch trackpad already available on the MacBook Air and Intel Penryn Core 2 Duo mobile processors (as the rumor goes, most likely sporting a 2.5 GHz clock frequency).
The new info, as macrumors.com says, comes our way via Mac desktop application called MiniBatteryLogger which - as the developer's website says - "monitors your laptop's battery, traces the graph of charge and amperage over time, compares your battery with other users, logs relevant power events and alerts you with Growl notifications." The thing that exposed the newly to be released MacBook Pro revisions is the fact that this app also offers public battery logs.
In one of these publicly available tracking logs (last time updated on 2008/01/29), there is a "MacBookPro4,1" entry that goes off the present system identifier label MacBook Pro charts. The MacBook Pros released by Apple last year sport a "MacBookPro3,1" entry.
One could very easily argue that, although the above mentioned entry can be faked altogether, there is another twist to this piece of info. The same "MacBookPro4,1" system identifier label has also been spotted in the 10.5.2 Mac OS X Apple seeds. Now, let's see how anybody can argue about this piece of evidence!
Just to be even more persuasive and make you really believe in the arrival of the multi-touch enabled MacBook Pros, as macrumors.com also states, the ip address associated to the MiniBatteryLogger generated log information is also related to Apple, therefore making the log some sort of an Apple pre-press release.
For those of you who have been passed out since New Year's Eve until now and missed Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld, this is why the new trackpads are so waited for by everybody else. Using such a trackpad you will be able, exactly like in the case of the iPhone, to use the multi-touch Apple patented technology on your MacBook Pro. Therefore, as Apple says, "you can pinch, swipe, or rotate to zoom in on text, advance through a photo album, or adjust an image".
Now, tell me you want to get yourself a MacBook Pro and you don't want the multi-touch sweetness available right on your trackpad (not to mention the Intel Penryn mobile processors).