Apple's Macbook laptops get glass trackpad

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA: Apple Inc's newest MacBook laptops will have a larger glass "multi-touch" trackpad and a faster graphics chipset from Nvidia. The lowest-priced machine will cost $999, $100 less than previously.

In an event at Apple's headquarters Tuesday, Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and CEO, highlighted the laptops' track pad, which, like the iPhone, understands multi-finger gestures for spinning and zooming.

He also said Apple switched from Intel Corp to Nvidia Corp. as the supplier of the laptops' graphics chips. Jobs said the change speeds up processing-intensive activities, playing popular 3-D video games, for example, as much as six-fold.