Apple has come up with its new Macbooks, a consumer notebook family which was already launched a week ago in the U.S. The product offers seven models in three categories, all of them being made from a new mechanical design using ‘unibody’ ultra light aluminium chasis making it the lightest and thinnest from its counterparts.

The three categories are MacBook, MacBookPro and MacBook Air where the 13.3 inch Mac books are priced at Rs. 96,500 and Rs. 79,700, the 15.4 inches MacBook Pro will cost the consumers around Rs. 1.20 lakh to Rs. 1.45 lakh. The Pro machine is laden with a ‘stepney’ graphics chip from NVIDIA giving it a high rendering and editing speeds for the professionals in visual computing.

According to White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, the reigning first couple of the country, President Bush and Mrs. Bush, cast their ballots Friday for the 2008 election, using Texas’ early voting process. In the three elections, Bush voted in Crawford, Texas, where he owns a 1,600 acre ranch.

Saying that the President and his wife, Laura, would be at the White House for election night, Perino said the ballots will be mailed back to Texas.

The reporters, of course, are leaving no stone unturned to know which of the two presidential candidates – Republican McCain and Democratic Obama – got the present President’s vote.

According to administration sources, secretary of Governor David Paterson, Charles O’Byrne, has resigned on Friday, after a week of increasing criticism over his failure to pay income taxes for 2001-05 – an amount of $300,000 - on time, and not offering a tangible reason for the lapse.

A source told Newsday that O’Byrne has had to leave his $178,500 job primarily “because of the taxes.” O’Byrne blamed his tax delinquency on clinical depression, for which he has undergone treatment three times.

Gurgaon: An unbeaten 51 from Hemang Badani helped Chennai Superstars to defeat Delhi Giants by five runs in the ICL 20s Championship at Tau Devi Lal stadium.

Chasing a victory target of 167, the Delhi team got to a solid start as both their openers, Marvan Atapattu (25) and Monish Mishra added 60 runs in just seven overs for the first wicket. Mishra scored a quick fire 36 runs off just 20 balls with two sixes and three fours. However, after losing both their openers, no other batsman from Giants could stay at the wicket for long. For Chennai, Nantie Haywards was pick of the bowlers claiming two wickets for just 25 runs.

Scores in brief: Chennai Superstars: 166/6, H.Badani 51*, R Satish 41, Murtaza 1/11, S Bond 1/34.

The National Democratic Alliance, the CPI (M) and the BSP staged a walkout from Parliament due to the declaration by the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Murli Deora that the government shall take a week before deciding the future of fuel prices.

The Minister also stated that keeping in mind the depreciation of the rupee, an appropriate decision shall be taken.

The first match of the N. K. P Salve Challenger Trophy at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack was won by India blue defeating India Red by