First...
"Apple announces its updated MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple's Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook Air. The new MacBook and MacBook Pro models are now shipping and available. The 2.1 GHz, 13-inch white MacBook, has a suggested retail price of $1,099; the 2.4 GHz, 13-inch white MacBook, has a suggested retail price of $1,299."
Second...
"CNET News.com
reports when T-Mobile began selling Apple's iPhone in Germany last fall, a legal skirmish ensued, forcing the wireless carrier to sell it untethered to a contract--at $1,460, no less. T-Mobile eventually persuaded a court that the two-year contract was legal. Now that same kind of European rule would be imported into the United States -- meaning AT&T would be legally required to sell a contract-free iPhone -- if a new Democratic proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law. Sponsored by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a liberal congressman who serves as chairman of a House telecommunications and Internet panel, it's similar to but somewhat more sweeping than a bill proposed in the Senate last year. His subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on the plan for Wednesday morning. The draft legislation says every mobile provider 'shall offer to consumers the opportunity to purchase subsidy-free wireless customer equipment.'"
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