Meet the newest addition to the family: the MacBook, Apple's brand new line of consumer portables. Available in white or black, these babies sport Intel's speedy Core Duo processors in speeds of either 1.83GHz or 2.0GHz, 13.3 inch widescreen displays supporting resolutions up to 1280 X 800, 512MB of RAM, 60GB or 80GB hard drives, and Combo or Super Drives.

That leaves only the pro level desktops to be upgraded. Patent applications in both New Zealand and the US show Apple intends to call the PowerMac replacements "Mac Pro", with Apple placing greater emphasis on the Mac brand.

Mac OS X 10.4.7 is said to be in the pipeline. Developer state that the next update to Tiger will concentrate on Safari and Mail, as well as iChat and synching. Reports from AppleInsider also state that there are to be "over 60" bug fixes since 10.4.6.

We hope to see many of you at the next Coffee gathering on June 5 at the Library. These informal get-togethers are a great way to stay in touch with fellow members during the summer. The Library has free wireless internet access, so bring along your laptops if you wish. I plan on attending (I missed last month due to being out of town), so if you want to see a MacBook Pro running Windows and Ubuntu Linux, be there!