Gallery: Apple beefs up MacBooks; gives peek at Lion

Apple updated its MacBook Pro line with next-gen processors, graphics and I/O technology dubbed Thunderbolt. For good measure, Apple also released the developer preview of Mac OS X Lion. For more read Larry Dignan's blog.

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The new MacBook Pros have a FaceTime HD camera, a multi-touch trackpad, and a 7-hour battery.

The 13-inch MacBook Pro starts at $1,199 and features Intel’s Core i5 and Core i7 processors up to 2.7 GHz. The 15-inch MacBook comes in two models - a Core i7 version with a 500GB drive starts at $1,199 and one with a 750GB drive at $2,199. A 17-inch MacBook Pro begins at $2,499.

The height of the 15-inch MacBook Pro is 0.95 inches and the width is 14.35 inches. It weighs 5.6 pounds.

The ports include a Thunderbolt port (up to 10 Gbps), MagSafe power port, Gigabit Ethernet port, FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps), and Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps).

Apple also gave a "Developer Preview" of its next Mac OS X version named Lion.