Apple announced a new and refreshed line-up of MacBook Pros with a thinner and lighter design and more powerful internals. The company also announced a 15.4-inch variant of the MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

New reports suggest that the Retina display will be coming to Macs

Apple is reportedly finishing up work on 15 and 17 inch ultra-thin notebooks. These devices will supposedly carry the MacBook Pro bran dings while sporting integrated SSDs and no optical drives. No release date is currently known.

Apple has updated its online store to list the next generation MacBook Pros. The next generation of MacBook Pros are powered by Intel Sandy Bridge processor and feature a Thunderbolt port.

Apple’s range of premium laptops – the MacBook Pro(s) are due for an update. Now, specs of the next generation 13″ MacBook Pro have leaked on the Internet.

Along with the release of the new MacBook Pros yesterday, Apple also released a new Software Update. The Software Update v1.3 is available for all the new MacBook Pros and weighs in at 258Mb. Apple also updated the Mini DisplayPort on the newer MacBook Pros.

Apple today finally introduced new the Macbook Pros. Only the 15″ and 17″ Macbook Pro get the Core i5 and Core i7 processor, while the 13″ Macbook Pro still uses the older Core 2 Duo processor. The new Macbook Pros also feature Nvidia Optimus technology.

Its been a long time since Apple refreshed their Macbook Pro line-up. All the laptop manufacturers have released new laptop models using the latest Intel Core i5/i7 processors except for Apple. But now it looks like a Macbook Pro line-up refresh is imminent.