Apple has unveiled its new line of MacBook Pros with updated processors, graphics, new Tunderbolt I/O port and HD Facetime cameras.

The biggest change to the new line of MacBook Pros has to be the new Thunderbolt technology that Intel developed in conjunction with Apple, that lets you connect peripherals and high resolution displays to a single port capable of connection speeds of 10Gbps.

Apart from the new Thunderbolt I/O port, Apple has also included new HD capable Facetime cameras that offers triple the resolution of previous MacBook Pro cameras.

Apple also made a switch from Nvidia to ATI Radeon graphics for its 15″ and 17″ MacBook Pro models, along with a bump up in the CPU department adding quadcore capabilities through the new i7 CPU’s.

Apple yesterday held an event where they introduced a array of new products focussed on the Mac, some things announced was an 11″ and 13″ Macbook Air, new Mac OS X called Lion, an app store for Mac and then FaceTime for Mac.

FaceTime was first introduced when Apple launched the iPhone 4 earlier this year, it allows you to make “Video Calls” to other iPhone 4 or iPod Touch devices, that was until now. Apple has now introduced FaceTime for Mac Beta which allows you to make video calls from your Mac not just to other Macs but to any iPhone 4 or new iPod Touch device.

Using FaceTime for Mac is really simple, all you need is an Apple ID and email address and you are ready to go. Making FaceTime calls is as simple as entering an iPhone 4 cellphone number or email address if you are dialing to a iPod Touch device, a confirmation window will pop up on the other side and when the user confirms you are ready to start chatting face to face.

As with any other beta product there could be a few bugs, but if you would like to try out FaceTime for Mac you can grab it from the Apple website.

Last night twitter was a buzz with Apple news, and one thing every Apple fanatic was waiting for was the announcement of Apple’s latest iPhone, the iPhone 4.

Steve Jobs started his keynote with “Here is something you already seen”, referring to the iPhone 4 that was lost.

When it comes to looks , Apple has again done a great job with the iPhone 4. Super slim and super sexy, in fact the iPhone 4 is the slimmest smartphone available on the market coming in at a mere 9.3mm thickness.

Another feature about the iPhone 4 that stood out to me was the Retina display, what this basically does is make the pixel density more allowing for a larger 960 x 640 resolution with crisper and clearer picture.

So its no secret that I am not a big Apple fan, and apart from the long battery life and the Retina display, the iPhone 4 is still just another smartphone.

The 5 Mega-pixel camera with LED flash, is something that is stock standard on most smartphones now a days, even the HTC Wildfire, a lower end smartphone comes with this. Also 720p HD video recording is also the norm on the latest smartphones, what makes the iPhone different here is that Apple developed an app where you can edit your videos on the go, unfortunately this comes at a price as everything with an i attached to it.

Thinking of importing this baby to South Africa? Maybe you should think again, to make space for the large battery in the  small iPhone 4, Apple had to use a micro sim slot. I am not 100% sure what the status are for microsims on South African networks, so maybe you should double check before importing a iPhone 4, on the other hand you can always trim your normal sim to make it fit.

Apart from the few features I pointed out the iPhone 4 is pretty stock standard when you compare it to say the HTC Desire. One think that really annoyed me about Apple and the iPhone 4 is the fact that they trying to introduce video calling on the iPhone 4 as a new technology called FaceTime. Come on Apple my Nokia of 5 years back could have done video calling, and better than the iPhone as FaceTime will currently only work over WiFi.

All in all the new iPhone 4 is really a beautiful device, something Apple gets right every time, but when it comes to features I am not yet convinced to make a switch.

If you are however a die hard Apple fan, the iPhone 4 is expected to ship 24 June.