17-inch unibody MacBook Pro is unveiled

At Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announces a MacBook Pro that features a non-removable battery designed to last about eight hours between charges. The starting price of the new notebook, which comes with either 4GB or 8GB of memory, £1,949. It is set to begin shipping by the end of January.