You might interject that those specs don’t really justify the $1,299 price tag. Fans of the old MacBook may lament the disappearance of FireWire, as well, but that’s not a major drawback unless you really must use a 13.3″ laptop for video editing. That’s regrettable, although I should point out that the first-gen MacBook featured a mini-DVI port that also needed adapters for pretty much everything. DVI and VGA adapters both cost $29, and the dual-link DVI one will set you back $99. The only sour note in my view is the mini-DisplayPort connector, which requires adapters to hook up to… well, pretty much anything except Apple’s own 24″ LED-backlit desktop monitor. The Core 2 Duo is one of the latest 45nm models from Intel’s Centrino 2 lineup, too, so it mixes power efficiency and great clock-for-clock performance. That’s a pretty well-rounded feature set for a notebook these days-especially with the GeForce 9400M, which elegantly rolls core logic and surprisingly decent graphics processing features into a single chip. Of course, whereas Apple intended for the original iBook to be a kid-friendly consumer system, the aluminum MacBook is more of a luxury laptop by today’s standards. The new MacBook’s shell is carved out of an aluminum brick, which results in a machine that’s at the same time sleek, sturdy, and sexy. The latest OS X release even includes a tool that makes it easy to dual-boot with Windows.Īpple has come very far in the aesthetics and build quality departments, too.
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On the software side of things, the MacBook comes with Mac OS X 10.5-an OS that really has more in common with Nextstep and FreeBSD than Mac OS 9-and it can run Windows Vista natively. On the hardware front, Apple has switched from questionably adequate PowerPC chips to Intel’s latest and greatest 45nm Core 2 Duo processors, which it couples with very capable Nvidia integrated graphics. The Apple faithful loved the iBook anyway.Īlmost a decade has passed since then, and aside from the Apple logo on the display lid, you’d have a hard time finding similarities between the iBook and the new MacBook. Application crashes often took down the whole system, and because of the non-x86 processor, running Windows was only possible through slow emulators. It ran Mac OS 8.6 (and later Mac OS 9), an operating system that was looking increasingly antiquated due to its lack of protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking. The first iBook cost $1,599 (that’s over two grand in today’s dollars), looked not unlike a candy-coated toilet seat, and featured a 12.1″ 800×600 display, a 300MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 32 megs of RAM, and a 3.2GB hard drive. Amid considerable buzz on rumor sites (not to mention many poorly rendered 3D mockups), Apple finally unleashed the fruit of its labor in the summer of 1999. Apple had been making laptops for years before that system, but following the return of co-founder Steve Jobs, the company’s engineers got busy making an affordable consumer laptop to mirror the iMac. Where to begin? Perhaps to really understand the MacBook, one needs to go back and study its original ancestor: the iBook. Read on as I share my thoughts on Apple’s latest and greatest consumer laptop and how it compares to its Windows-based brethren. However, the MacBook’s build quality and features proved too tempting to resist.
As a die-hard fan of Lenovo’s ThinkPad line of laptops, I didn’t make this choice lightly. Last month, I succumbed to temptation and purchased the latter-a $1,299 MacBook with the standard hardware bundle. And while Apple’s MacBook Pros do carry a heavy markup, the $999 and $1,299 MacBooks aren’t really all that much pricier than comparable Windows laptops (more on that in a short while). Sure, they’re closed-off and don’t run many games out of the box, but you could say the same about most Windows laptops. That picture changes somewhat when we look at Apple’s most recent notebooks.
I think you can chalk that up to three major factors: you can’t build your own Mac (not without headaches and possible law-breaking, at least), Apple’s own desktops are expensive and closed-off, and Mac OS X isn’t quite what you’d call a gaming OS. Major Apple product releases often receive coverage in the form of news posts, but we’ve historically regarded Macs with a mixture of disinterest and contempt.
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In typical PC hardware enthusiast fashion, we haven’t covered Macs much here at TR.
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