In a town-hall event on the company's campus, Apple today revamped their entire laptop line, introducing a brand-new design for their consumer and pro laptops, and in fact have blurred the line between the two. Most of the moves are good for consumers in general, although there are some odd changes that photographers will need to grapple with.

For starters, throw out everything you knew about the differences between the consumer MacBook and the professional MacBook Pro lineups. The new units are both cosmetically and internally different, dramatically so, with both lines being comprised of the same aluminum enclosure that's both lighter and stronger than the previous models. Gone are the plastic-only MacBook consumer models (although oddly the white-bodied configuration of the previous generation still remains in the lineup).

Both use a new motherboard featuring a Nvidia 9400M chip, a screamingly fast video processor that will make these models perform much more favorably compared to a desktop system, and the MacBook Pro can upgrade to the 9600M chip. Both use a "smooth glass" trackpad that can recognize fingure gestures (a-la the iPhone) and lack the traditional mouse button found on every other laptop ever. Instead, the new surfaces are touch sensitive and respond to user presses.

The units both have LED backlit displays, which use less energy and turn on instantly.

The MacBook Pro comes in 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz flavors, and 250 and 320GB drives are available. A 128GB SSD hard drive is available in this model as well. The new case design is only available in 15-inches, the previous 17-inch MacBook Pro remains in the linuep. (Our guess is that Macworld or some subsequent event will see the launch of a new 17-inch.)

Apple took the opportunity to refresh the MacBook Air as well, which now has a 1.6GHz or 1.86 GHz processor and the new NVIDIA 9400M processor.

Also available is a new 24-inch LED Cinema Display, which features a built-in iSight and a special connector that allows it to work with the new display ports on the MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

Various configurations are available for each of the Apple laptops, and you can custom configure one at store.apple.com.