News of the HP TouchSmart tx2 swept blogs, news sites, and social networks alike this week, and, as imagined, this touch screen laptop was instantly pointed out as a direct victory over Apple. For example, BusinessWeek even wrote, “Apple watchers assumed Jobs & Co. would be the first to offer a multitouch laptop, but Hewlett-Packard more »

Apple has announced the refreshed MacBook Pro, and almost all of the rumors were spot on.

Here’s a breakdown of the features on the new MacBook Pro.

• Precision aluminum unibody enclosure
• Glass covered, LED backlit screen.
• Dual GPUs. Both new NVIDIAs, one 9400M, and a 9600M GT.
• Glass multitouch trackpad
• Black keyboard
• Mini Display Port connector capable of driving a 30 inch display
• Firewire 800 port
• .95 inches thin
• 37% smaller packaging

Details and images after the break.