Apple has updated the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines today. The Pro inherits the iMac style aluminum case with black bordered, glossy screen. The low end white plastic MacBook is $100 cheaper at $999 and there are two additional models that are essentially 13″ versions of the MacBook Pro with the same styling and many of the same features. The MacBook Air was also updated with some of the same new features.

NOTE: The new MacBooks do not have a Firewire port and do not support Target Mode! They use USB exclusively. The MacBook Pros include Firewire 800 which is compatible with Firewire 400 via a simple cable.

New Cinema Displays: LED backlight, MagSafe connector to power your laptop, 3 port USB hub, integrated microphone and iSight camera, stereo speakers for $899, available in November.

New Features:

• Aluminum Unibody construction: more durable for less weight (same as MacBook air)
• Larger glass button-less multi-touch trackpad (not a screen, just a glass surface)
• LED backlit screen (less power, quicker start up than the old fluorescents)
• New mini display connector (and a new set of adapters to buy)
• Access to the optical and hard drives through the battery compartment for easier swaps/upgrades
• Optional Solid State Hard Drive
• More environmentally friendly design and construction

Models:

• $1999 MacBook Pro – 15.4″ screen, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 3MB of Level 2 cache memory, 2GB of RAM, two NVIDIA graphics chips: 9400M for better battery life (5 hours) and 9600M GT for turbo-mode high-performance graphics (4 hour battery life.)

• $2499 MacBook Pro – same as above except: 1.53GHz processor and 6MB of L2 cache.

• $1799 MacBook Air – 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 6MB L2 cache memory, 2GB RAM, 128GB hard drive.

• $2499 MacBook Air – same except 1.86GHz processor and 128GB Solid State Drive

• $999 MacBook – White Plastic case (same as current), 2.1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 120GB hard drive Intel GMA X3100 graphics (lower performance than NVIDIA)

• $1299 MacBook – new Aluminum & Black case, 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
• $1599 MacBook – same except: 2.4GHz processor, 250GB hard drive

All available today and in stores tomorrow.

Oh, and Steve’s blood pressure is 110/70.

• Quicktime streaming video of the event
• Apple: Which MacBook are you?
• Live Ars Technica coverage of Apple’s 2008 notebook event
• engadget: Live from Apple’s “spotlight turns to notebooks” event