News Apple updates MacBook spec

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2009/01/22/apple-updates-macbook-spec/1

Apple has given the white polycarbonate MacBook an overhaul, with a spanking new Core 2 Duo processor, double the memory, and a shiny Nvidia graphics chip.

 

Tempting. MacOS on one partition, Windows 7 on the other.

Pricing is spot-on, too. $999 = £719, pretty much.

 

...except in tech-pricing fantasy land, where $999 = £999.

 

I still wouldn't buy it because it has the crappy old track pad. Plus the plastic fascia lasts about 12 months before discolouring and cracking around the edges (unless they fixed it!). Oh and it's still a heavy beast of a notebook!

 

That really is a good price for that machine.. plus you get FW400, a non dodgy trackpad ;-) and it actually looks like a mac, and not a 'yet another laptop PC in a silver case'.

I dont think the macbook screen's are good enough personally.. I compared a macbook screen to a Sony CS range laptop (same prices), and the difference is night and day. The Sony CS model is as good as the macbook pro screen. The macbook screen (even on the unibody models) is poor.

 

Ah now, I thought that, but then I checked the mac page on apple.co.uk and the price is, amazingly, the same - using www.xe.com/ucc, $999 comes out at very nearly £719. The price of the new white slab? £719.

 

in the interests of fairness, why is this news? i don't see news articles when dell bumps the spec in their inspirons. why should i care when apple does it?

(note: not an apple hater)

 

if i had £1000 laying around, i'd definitely get this Macbook and save the £200 for a q9650. always wanted a notebook along side my desktop gaming PC.

but i don't have £1000 laying around, and have access to computers whenever i go. or use iphone when on the move.


Dell is just another PC manufacturer. why would a modding community care about that? PC component hardware and Macs (because it's great to mod a PC into a Mac Pro) are news worthy, IMHO.

 

I prefer trackpads to nubbins/nipples personally, but I prefer external mice to them, what they need to invent is a foldflat USB mouse that fits in PCMCIA slots.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I just had a GREAT idea!

 

Yes and no, more like a box...