Apple has released their new MacBook Pros with LED-Lit displays, and Santa Rosa chips. You can view Apple’s press release here. Take a look at the specs for the 15-inch $1999 model, the one at the bottom of the MacBook Pro line:

• 15.4-inch widescreen LED-backlit 1440-by-900 LCD display;
• 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
• 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 4GB;
• 120GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
• a slot-load 8x SuperDrive® with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
• NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 128MB GDDR3 memory;
• DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video out adapter sold separately);
• built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display;
• built-in iSight video camera;
• Gigabit Ethernet port;
• built-in AirPort Extreme® 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
• ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot;
• two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, and one FireWire 400 port;
• one audio line in and one headphone out port, each supporting optical digital audio;
• Scrolling TrackPad and illuminated keyboard;
• the infrared Apple Remote; and
• 85 Watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.

That’s pretty good. You can get a lot more for that $2000 now. Just upgrade the hard drive up to 160-200GB and you’ve got a great laptop.

It seems that Ask.com has had some upgrades. Firstly, they’ve updated their design, making it looks more 3d and shiny. Besides the design, though, they’ve also been updating their results pages to be more like Google’s new “Universal Search”, where you get pictures, videos, maps, etc mixed in with web results.

No matter what they do, they’ll still be the “Newbies’ Search Engine”, ignored by experienced users in favor of Google.

Google just bought Feedburner! Is that surprising? It’s not to me (well, not too much anyway). Think of it this way:

•  Feedburner = RSS “re-hosting”, feed stats, and feed ads
•  Google = Web site stats, website ads

So, you combine the two.

I believe the feed stats will eventually be integrated with Google Analytics, the ads with Adsense, and the “re-hosting” as-is. I’m guessing feedburner.com will stay as it is now, but the services will be available in other parts of Google as well.

For example, you could access your feed’s stats at either feedburner.com or through Google Analytics.

I wonder how much Google paid for Feedburner. More or less than youTube? Personally, I think Feedburner is worth more than YouTube.