If you follow these things, you may remember that back in January, Intel found a minor flaw in the Cougar Point chipset that's part of the latest . Intel stopped production, , and began shipping corrected chips by late February.

Ever since, would-be laptop buyers, especially those who track the ins and outs of chip technology, have wondered whether any of those early processors found their way into Apple's newest MacBook Pros.

According to Apple: No.

Now, with that piece of business out of the way, we can turn our attention to what the new MacBook Pros did get: noticeably faster quad-core Core i5 and i7 processors in the 15-in. and 17-in. models and dual-core chips in the 13-inch models, an (with a separate AMD Radeon graphics chip in higher-end models, some of which deliver 1GB of video RAM) and perhaps most notably, a new high-speed I/O technology that Apple and Intel have dubbed Thunderbolt. (It ; they're the same thing.)

There's also a new webcam, still built into the top of the black bezel surrounding the screen, that allows you to conduct high-definition, 720p video chats using FaceTime.