27-inch iMacs! Mac minis as servers! New cheap MacBooks! A magical new mouse! Apple opened the floodgates this morning with a bushel of new hardware updates—which should set the company up for a blingin' holiday season.

Apple is acknowledging the appearance of hairline cracks along the bottom enclosure of white MacBooks and will repair the defects regardless of warranty.

When the new Macbooks came out a few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided to Apple did not contain the so-called bad bumps material believed to have caused higher-than-expected defect rates in certain notebooks, namely from HP and Dell, under certain usage models. But an investigation lead by The Inquirer seems to show this not to be the case.

Despite a raft load of nifty new features, Apple's new MacBooks will have a hard time moving off store shelves during the economic crisis, industry analysts say.

At a special press event held Tuesday, Apple introduced completely redesigned MacBooks and MacBook Pros with glass, multitouch trackpads, and Nvidia graphics.