Apple officially announced the availability of the updated unibody aluminum MacBooks, MacBook Pros, MacBook Air and the 24″ Apple Cinema Display in India at a press conference in Mumbai this morning. We are told that the MacBooks and MacBook Pros are shipping today and the MacBook Air and the 24″ Apple Cinema Display will start shipping in November. While we’ve already published the prices of the new notebooks, the price of the Apple Cinema Display was announced today. It will retail in India for Rs. 60,900. With the Rupee heading south, this is a good price (provided, of course, that $ 899 is a good price in your book for a display).

(Angeline – ‘Product Head’ (we assume Product Head Asia-Pacific) with the new MacBook Pro)

Apple’s India events are a mere formality for the press and traditional media as the blogosphere and Mac enthusiasts are usually cued in well in advance. In fact most of us get our fix of the event through live blogs in the US or through Apple’s keynote podcast the very next day.

Also, a word on MacBook family’s availability in India – ’shipping today’ doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ll see the new machines at stores tomorrow or even this weekend for that matter. But we’ll keep an eye out for them and alert you of their availability here – we personally quite look forward to getting our hands on them!

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