Leaked photos show 13-inch MacBook Pro, some specs

What sort of person leaks information about Apple, and why do they do it? I wonder if there's even an answer to that.

do the intel graphics support OpenCL?

I'm skipping this refresh since I just recently got my MBPs (December). I am more excited about seeing how the market will adopt Light Peak and when we can start seeing some nice LP storage devices. Just like SSD, I'm taking the wait approach and not pay through the nose for having the bleeding edge technology. Macs are expensive as it is.

Didn't I see Prism model in that pix?

I can imagine how hard Ives and his crew were laughing today. Imagine him in the next design video, caressing and licking his new baby and praying about "likeness" and "so totally the SAME!". You really think they present something like the new airs and then relaunch on Sandybridge with just a thunderbolt to make the difference in the whole outer design? Fffffake!

This totally makes sense. Thunderbolt is brand new so they're not going to dedicate a port to it yet.

First products to market with Thunderbolt will be Cinema Displays updated so USB and Firewire ports are available on them with no extra cable bits like they have now, and a breakout box which lets you quick-connect your laptop to any USB/FW/DP/HDMI/SATA/Ethernet peripherals with one cable.

The future beyond that is clear: Laptops with only two ports, power and Thunderbolt. Past that, one port only - power + optical in one cable with breakout box on the power adapter. Hell they already patented that.

It only makes sense. Machines are getting thinner so put the ports on an external box and connect them with a high speed interconnect.

You're seeing a glimpse of the future here folks.

This doesnt look like a legitimate box to me, the specs label is a sticker on the box and normally its printed directly on.. I might be nitpicking but it doesnt seem very apple-like to me

It's not Thunderbolt High-speed VO, it's Thunderbolt High-speed I/O. Look at the picture of the side of the box they took.

I think this supports what I've been saying about Thunderbolt. The fact that they're advertising it specifically as "High-speed I/O" is interesting; ordinarily, a monitor is something you only need high-speed output to (in the form of high-res video signal). The only thing that requires high speed in both directions AND belongs on the video port is an external discrete GPU. And since these new laptops come with relatively weak Sandy Bridge graphics, it makes sense that users would want a larger external monitor to be complimented by a more powerful GPU. That's how they'll sell it; efficient graphics for long battery life on the road, more power when you plug in your Thunderbolt monitor with integrated Radeon/GeForce GPU.

Plus, this becomes a way for Apple to sell more Apple-branded monitors. Your MacBook Pro comes with pretty weak built-in graphics, but you can have upgraded graphics built into a high-res external monitor... if you buy a Thunderbolt-enabled monitor from Apple. Apple might license the technology out to other manufacturers, using some kind of "Works with Thunderbolt" licensing, that puts more money in Apple's pocket even with non-Apple monitors sold.

I wonder if the "iSight camera" has a higher resolution. It's now called "FaceTime HD camera".

So after over a year, the only update we get is a processor bump and new connection port, highly unlikely!

It looks as though this is a replacement for the current low level Macbook, but it certainly is not the Macbook Pro. I would expect at least higher res screen to match the Air, SSD as a boot drive/main drive + option to replace the superdrive with a HDD or SSD + lighter weight as a result.