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.

San Francisco - Apple Inc on Tuesday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of 1.14 billion dollars, or 1.26 dollars a share, up 24 per cent from a profit of 904 billion dollars in the same quarter last year.

The company is seeing a resurgence in sales of its computers at the same time sales of its iPhone and other portable devices are also rising strongly.

Apple said its revenue reached 7.9 billion dollars, up from 6.22 billion dollars in sales in the same period a year ago.

Apple issued invitations on Thursday, for an event next Tuesday on its Cupertino, Calif., campus that will publicize laptops. "The spotlight turns to notebooks," the invitation sent to reporters read. 

The company is expected to come up with the new versions of its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers.

On Thursday, two security flaws in iPhone were disclosed by Security Researcher Aviv Raff that could help the attackers to trick the users into unknowingly surfing to unwanted destinations. 

Back in July, Raff had tried to bring these flaws in the attention of Apple, but since company did not address them with patches, he was left with no choice but to disclose these flaws publicly. 

San Francisco - The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the motive behind a false report on CNN's citizen journalist website Friday that Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack.

The report sent the company's stock on a roller coaster ride. Shares fell 5.4 per cent Friday morning after the posting on iReport.com cited an anonymous source who said Jobs was rushed to the hospital after suffering a "major heart attack."

The report followed months of concern about the health of the iconic company founder and CEO who had surgery four years ago to treat pancreatic cancer.