Macbook launch slips

NEVER A COMPANY TO FOLLOW TRENDS Apple decided some time ago that little piddly laptops were for losers, and that what the world really needed was another 17-inch behemoth taking up far more than its fair share of space on train tabletops the world over.

The new 17-inch Macbook Pro was conceived and the 2.66GHz Intel-powered beast was due to arrive, complete with 8GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive... well five days ago actually.

Now Apple has announced that there have been some complications, and anyone who has ordered one of the unibody laptops carved out of a single block of aliminium will have to wait until February 19th until they can test the £1,950 machine's eight-hour battery life.

A proud expectant father said, "Wrapping up the new 17-inch MacBook Pro is taking a few days longer than we expected". µ