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I'm no techy, so I can't throw out any fancy words at you. I just have this to say: after using PC my entire life, I've seen the light and APPLE RULES.
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I love my new computer. It had everything that was written in the description and works wonderfully.
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I'm a mac user for about 2 years now, and my first mac was a very very robust and beautiful power book 12' alu (Power PC processor). Also, my brother got an imac 20' (intel) a few months back, so my review is based on my experience with those two machines.
1- the beginning, the OS change: I switched from a HD notebook (very good, I think, in terms of overall performance of the hardware and the robustness) to the PBook , due to the various overheard things about the mac platform. They were all true, and I'm never coming back. And since my brother got the imac with intel processor, with the abillity to run windows natively, I saw I needed to get an Intel mac. The search began...
2- The Macbook: I got the latest (as of 01/04/07) and the best of the lineup (a 2.0Ghz Intel core 2 duo proc., 2Gig of Ram, 160Hd.(5600RPM Vs a 200G but 4200Rpm which I think is best))
3- The opinion: so far I have it for two weeks, and I can say that it's about 2x faster than my 1.5Ghz G4 Powerbook, when encoding video for Ipod and encoding music in Itunes.
The apps take about half of they used to in the Pbook to open, even "under Rosetta"ones, like Photoshop.
The resolution is pretty good for a 13' display, at 1280/800.
It gets hot, very hot, but just as hot as my old pbook. It doesn't give me any worries.
The vent wines a bit, but just when the proc. is going for it, and I can live with that.
It feels a little bit fragile, but just a little bit. But I'm comparing it to my 15' HP notebook and my 12' alu powerbook. And when you balance it with the weight and capabilities of the Macbook it's just a joke. More than worth it.
The OS, oh the OS... I'll try not to take "the apple side" of it, but it's just REALLY another issue. And i LIKE win XP. Ilife. Isight.
- finishing: I went to dell.com and made a very similar config (impossible to make it the same). [...] dell X [...] macbook.
- result: Mac OS (plus Ilife and Isight) + Win with bootcamp (free)= no brainer. I didn't gave a 5 star because it's made of plastic, but isn't anything else out there? (besides the mac book Pro?) ;)
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Performance, heat output, and overall design are fantastic. I have one major gripe with the black Macbook, however, which is that the materials used (at least in the run from which my Macbook came) pick up grease and wear down with ridiculous ease. Handling the outside of the Macbook is almost always going to leave noticeable greaseprints, which demand constant cleaning unless you're fine with foregoing the whole point of getting the black Macbook in the first place. Likewise, the fine-grained texturing on the trackpad and keyboard keys wears down quickly: the trackpad developed a noticeable sheen near the center after only three days of use, and the frequently used keys on the keyboard followed soon after. I had to buy an iSkin to prevent further wear on the keyboard. As a new Mac user, I was extremely happy with the overall elegance and performance of the Mac, but problems arising from the materials used prove a continual source of annoyance for me, half a year after I purchased it. I've owned PC laptops before and never experienced anywhere near the same level of problems with greaseprints and trackpad and keyboard wear.
If your primary reason for buying a black Macbook over the white is about aesthetics, I would suggest avoiding the black unless you have a reasonable assurance that the quality of materials used has substantially improved (take a good hard look at the trackpad and keys on the display models in Apple stores, and actually handle the exterior). Otherwise you may be enjoying the slickness of the black Macbook for the mere two days in which it actually looks new.
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This is a fantastic product. If you are looking at this model because of the difference in price between it and the core 2 duo version that just came out, spend the money, however. If you're set on this one - get it refurbished, so it's got the latest firmware version that fixes the fan problem (or just update as soon as you get it)
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