For weeks – months even – analysts have been telling Apple to make a netbook for the masses, a $299 junker designed for those who surf the web on the couch, their Cheeto-stained hands scrabbling for the TiVo remote while they incessantly refresh Reddit and hope against hope that their Craigslist Missed Connection emails them back. The Air, they said, was too expensive, designed for the frou-frou quiche-eaters of Silicon (V)alley while the MacBook Pros were too overpowered for the likes of Flyover Sally and her sad-eyed brood of younglings. They needed to sell something to the masses, something solid, American, and corn-fed.
Well, now Sally, the quiche-eaters, and the Cheeto dude – and the rest of us – have the new MacBook. It offers a bit less power and peformance than the Pro line, a little more of the styling of the Air line, and sells right at $999, a magic marketing number that is neither North of $1000 (before taxes) and South of corporate financial suicide.
[UPDATE - Added battery test.]
I recall in about 2003 when Wal-Mart first breached the thousand dollar mark in a laptop, a defining moment in the marketing of laptops. With the advent of cheap networks, that mark is now, in short, the high water one while sub-$500 is the norm. The breach of a $1000 meant that manufacturers had to cram cheaper hardware into cheaper cases in order to turn a profit.
Apple never went that route and for good reason. By selling lots of cheap netbooks for no money, big manufacturers like HP and Dell could squeeze profit out of a tight market. Apple, on the other hand, squeeze profit out of a constellation of products, iPhone included, and they hope that the social, societal, and mental pressures to make the earbuds match the laptop are enough to make people switch. For the most part their plan is working.
Designed for students and entry-level users, think of this model as the Mac Mini of laptops. The new design is quite smooth with rounded edges on the bottom – the old model was squared off – and an internal battery thart can hit about 7 hours on one charge. The ports were slightly changed in this model with two USB ports, a DisplayPort, and a combination headphone/line-in jack. The laptop also doesn’t have an IR sensor, presumably because you can now control iTunes with the iPhone or Touch. There is also no Firewire port. From an aesthetic standpoint, the battery/active light on the front which winks playfully through a slit in the metal in MacBook Pros looks like an accident on this model. Apple made it large and brooding rather than thin and charming and it seems like the materials limited their design choices.
Geekbench maxed out at 3258 (the 2008 models hit about 3139) thanks to a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 2GB of RAM. This is more than acceptable for most users considering a new MacBook Air clocks in at 2762. The battery lasted for five full hours of video playback with wireless on. I noticed that the bottom of the laptop stayed cool throughout the test.
The large, spacious trackpad is just like the MacBook Pro’s and seamless aspect of the build ensures there’s little to break in a backback or laptop bag. A few caveats: there is no external battery indicator and the bottom panel can be removed but the battery, technically, cannot be changed by mere mortals.
Another caveat is that this thing will get dirty and scratched almost immediately. Polycarbonate is not related “carbonite” or “polyadamantium” – it’s related to plastic. As such, your beautiful white MacBook will soon be a beatiful gray MacBook if you’re not careful.
Obviously you get Snow Leopard with this version and it comes with a power supply, longer power cable, and little else. For example, this model does not include the remote although included remotes seem to be extinct allowing Apple to charge $19 for the new remote.
Bottom Line
This MacBook is not for everyone. It’s a great addition to the MacBook canon, an effort to appease the analysts with an entry level laptop, but don’t ever expect something like this to drop past the $500 mark. Apple doesn’t deign to play in those muddy fields, leaving that to the PC makers in their race to the bottom.
Good Review, I still love my (now extinct) black MacBook I bought last year.
Extinct? Im still running a 15″ G4 PowerBook!
Glossy Screen. Is big Apple disappointment. With the exception of the 15″ and 17″ mac pro (option) all other product with a screen have that god awful glare. All that tech and pixels to let light pass through they throw a stupid glare on top of it that sends light bouncing off it. That’s just stupid!
Kind of interesting, actually, somebody informed me that all displays are glossy by default, and must be coated to make them matte/anti-glare. I haven’t done any research, so I’m taking them at their word that this is true, but if so, on top of that technical bit, there’s also the fact that the PC market as a whole has moved to being almost entirely glossy-screened. Just take a stroll through Best Buy…
OOOOOhhhhh coma an …
I’v already buy the old macbook one month later
So what does a 13″ $999 laptop have to do with $300 netbooks?
It doesn’t. It’s further proof that Apple wants to stay out of the low-priced (as in, selling at a loss) crap market.
TechCrunch’s link to this story calls the MacBook a netbook. I thought that was odd.
Nothing. Which is why it’s weird that the author brought it up, because it undercuts the entire premise of this “review”.
There’s absolutely nothing newsworthy here. Everyone’s been waiting for Apple to do something interesting with their PC and notebook lineups for ages, and they haven’t done anything. Same white plastic, same $1000 price tag. Some entry-level notebook!
If the author thinks that every sub-$1000 notebook and netbook is crap, he’s obviously not been paying attention. You can get a really sturdy and nice netbook for $400. For $500-600, you can get a CULV-powered notebook that feel great, and speedy enough for most people.
Excellent, well said.
Yes, Netbooks are great for the consumer, but crappy for the manufacturer. The myth of Market share. Should BMW make cars for under $30k just because people want them to? Should
Company Revenue EBITDA
PC Worldwide Market Share
Apple $9.8B $2.4B
4% (but US share of notebooks >$1000..91%)
HP $27B (3x Apple) $3.3B (1.4x Apple)
19.8% (5x apple)
Dell $12B (1.2x Apple) $873M (1/3 Apple)
16.1% (4x Apple)
Lenovo $3.5B (1/3 Apple) $52M (1.5% Apple)
8.7% (2x Apple)
Everyone except Apple is in a price war, and the only winner so far is Apple. They have over a 90% marketshare for all laptops priced over $1000. Keep in mind that most laptops models of #1 Dell cost over $1000. But because they make less expensive models, why would you buy the more expensive ones? They are cannibalizing the profits of their expensive machines.
So, you guys spent all of less than 12 hours with this machine, posted some worthless iphone photos of it and got geeked up on getting the first “review” out.
So how’s the battery life then, in practice? Going by my last Macbook Pro, you probably didn’t get halfway through a full charge cycle. But I’m sure the battery is amazing and is fully consistent with the way in which it was marketed, no testing needed!
Does this iteration of the Macbook suffer from the same topcase stain issues as the older ones? Oh, who cares… that’s not something people cared about with this product before.
Any overheating issues? Oh, I guess that one can slide… that’s only for long-term use. Who owns a Mac for more than a month before replacing it anyways!
Well at least there’s a compatibility check with commonly used applica- wait, nevermind.
But hey, the packaging sure is great!
YO TECHCRUNCH, IM REAL HAPPY FOR YOU, AND IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT THE 2009 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE HAD THE BEST PREMATURE REVIEW OF ALL TIME…
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@nate – dude you’re a genius. Your comment is amazing and sums up exactly how I feel about these ridiculous Apple fanboys.
Haha.. Omg.. that was the best comment ever. Can I subscribe to this guy? Please do more Apple posts! I want to see this guy comment on them :)
Dude you nailed it, nuff said
Nicely done! The crunch network should hire Nate here to ALWAYS comment on Biggs’ and Siegler’s posts – and pay him a percentage that comes directly out of their compensation.
Nate. Dude. Hell to the yes.
Exactly. This review is to writing what 4 day old cotton candy is to dinner.
BTW, I’m sending this reply from my 400$ Samsung netbook which has 9 hour battery life, a tiny plug in external disc drive, 3 USB ports…oh, I could go on, but W/E. That would be waaaaaay too much information for article.
Cheers.
9 hour battery life doing what exactly… surfing the web and occasionally playing with your ports?
Btw, swap out the HDD for a solid state and that macbook will pull 10 easy.
So your crappy netbook with a barely useful Atom processor, a tiny screen, no optical drive, and (I’m guessing) a huge and protruding extended life battery has better batter life than a REAL laptop with a full-blown C2D chip, a 13″ LED screen, and an optical drive?
NO WAY!
That said, I’d still like to see a link to a 9 hour netbook for $300. I’m guessing you didn’t include the cost of the extended battery.
+1
“barely useful Atom processor” – With the exception of gaming, why would any regular computer user *really* need a dual or quad core CPU? Really?
“tiny screen” – Tiny screen, tiny form factor, tiny weight. That’s why a lot of people buy Netbooks, silly.
“no optical drive” – The last laptop I had that did have an optical drive was only fed CDs/DVDs when I installed a new OS. Optical media is so 2006.
Stop hating so hard on netbooks just because they’re so cost-effective, practical for so many people and selling so well.
Win. We need a rebuttal to fans with typewriters and you’re doing a grand job, Nate.
“Going by my last Macbook Pro, you probably didn’t get halfway through a full charge cycle.”
Damn, were you really stupid enough to get a bad battery and *not* take it back to Apple for a free replacement?
“Does this iteration of the Macbook suffer from the same topcase stain issues as the older ones?”
Oh, I thought you said you had a MacBook Pro. Or did you just read about that once and now you repeat it endlessly?
“Any overheating issues?”
So you bring that up in every other review of any laptop made by a company that’s ever made a model that ran hot, right? Now matter how long ago it happened or how few laptops had the problem, right? Or is it only Apple?
“Well at least there’s a compatibility check with commonly used applica”
Hahaha, well now you’re completely busted because that doesn’t make any sense. Well, it makes sense for a Windows user to ask that: different drivers from different companies for different versions of Windows on an endless sea of dirt cheap, crap hardware and all that. But the advantage of Apple “lock in” is that we just don’t have a lot of compatibility issues, and none due to minor hardware refreshes.
And get a new joke, dude. Wasn’t the Kanye thing played out a month ago? On second thought, the fact that an MS fanboy is telling a joke less than five years old is pretty impressive.
Ryan, we’re not ‘Windows users’ and ‘Mac users’ we’re ‘computer users’.
Why the hell do people like you assume we have to be one or the other – you know, since most of us use multiple platforms – or feel you have to immediately leap to the defence of a multinational corporation?
Get a clue. This is about shoddy journalism, not about what products you buy.
Did you really expect them the write up a detailed review including battery test results on the same friggin’ day the thing was released!? You sure demand allot from a FREE website.
@Chris
Then head the article ‘first impressions’ not ‘review’.
Whoosh!
Dude I’m with you great comment.
damn. if the Crunch doesn’t find a place for Nate to exist, either writing or commenting on posts – we all lose. well said, sir.
“I recall in about 2003 when Wal-Mart first breached the thousand dollar mark in a laptop, a defining moment in the marketing of laptops.”
I started my online marketing career (kind of) buying/selling used laptops. Turned $1,200 into $1M in < 12 months.
The $1,000 *new* laptop was the beginning of the end of my money printing machine. The $500 laptop put her to sleep.
"A defining moment" – bah! humbug!
Cool story, bro.
The Apple “cannon”…I believe you meant “canon”…
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I don’t understand why Apple still has this one odd model at the low end of it’s line. Why are they still developing next technology and parts that used in just this one model instead of focusing all of their efforts on the Pro series?
This made a lot more sense when there was a line of both MacBooks and and MacBook Pros. Now with just a single MacBook does this strategy still make sense? I would think it would simplify the process to just have a “Pro” that sells for the same price point and do away with the white Macbook.
They need something below the Pro to justify giving the Pro that name; something to distinguish their high-end from the mainstream.
What I don’t understand is why they don’t actually price the MacBook at mainstream prices. PC notebooks with similar specs are around $600. Certainly Apple could sell an $800 system and still make a profit, right?
Not while maintaining their current margin, no. Specs are whatever they are. Build quality and consumer experience are something else entirely. Apple could build a $300 or $600 or $800 entry-level laptop. But it would cost them more in reputation. The first words out of every current-critic’s mouth would be, “what a piece of shit, I guess that’s what you can expect from Apple, they care more about their bottom line than they do about their customers.” Some people can only be pleased by putting straw in their rooms.
Apple’s game isn’t market share. It’s margin. They don’t care about how many computers they sell or about how many people use their operating system. They care about being compensated for their hardware by being able to sell it at a price that nets them a 33% profit, which they think fairly compensates them for their efforts to make a quality product. When they can no longer do that, their sales will tank. But right now, they’re kicking everyone else’s ASS.
When the unibody Macbook Pros were announced, Apple’s profit share was north of 30% for laptops (or, it might have been that $1 out of every $3 spent to purchase a laptop was spent on an Apple). I believe their market share for laptops was less than 10% but certainly less than 15%. The point is, people spend an amount of money on Apple laptops disproportionate to their market share. Eventually, if that’s an anomaly, the market figures it out and punishes Apple. But when they’re consistently posting winning results quarter after quarter after quarter (and I’m talking about margins on Mac hardware sales, not iPods or iPhones or iPod Touches) then at some point you have to wonder if maybe the market is right: Apple is producing the right products and selling them at the right prices to achieve their profitability goals in a troubled market sector.
One more point…I look at using OS X the way that I look at living in a rural area of the country: the fact that the 18 mile drive to work and the 18 mile drive home from work take me 22 minutes any hour of the day andy day of the week is worth about 10 points on my blood pressure. It’s nice getting in my car in the morning (or firing up my computer) and not wondering whether or not today is the day that I completely lose it and beat someone to death with a tire iron. You can’t put a price tag on that.
I like my (original) AirBook.
I like quiche. Made one last week for dinner.
Oh, well.
At least I own 84.7% of the basement I live in. The bank’s share of ownership declines every month.
How is this a review? Did you even use the new MacBook?
Yes?
Are you kidding? This model has been out for less than 12 hours… Do you really expect to see a lengthy review?
As time goes on the coverage goes more in-depth, it always does… give John some credit that you have this much detail (and the video) after such a short time.
I expect to see a review after 12 hours if they called it a “review”.
This is more a “first look” and I don’t think anyone would have complained about the length or content of the text if they’d called it just that.
To me it looks almost the same as the old one. If I were buying a macbook I’d go with the aluminum one.
I agree with the post that wonders why there is still this white plastic macbook. They should just make them all aluminum and lower the price based on specs.
hm i just don’t get the last paragraph.. why should anyone ship a remote that’s ir-based when there is now … ir receiver in that new macbook? seems a bit odd to me..
Nate. Dude. Hell to the yes.
Exactly. This review is to writing what 4 day old cotton candy is to dinner.
BTW, I’m sending this reply from my 400$ Samsung netbook which has 9 hour battery life, a tiny plug in external disc drive, 3 USB ports…oh, I could go on, but W/E. That would be waaaaaay too much information for article.
Cheers.
$400 Samsung netbook, huh? Impressive. I drive a 15 year old Honda. It was really, really cheap but it still drives. Am I cool too?
No, Ryan. And unfrotunately you never will be.
Pot, meet kettle.
@Mark – Want a review? Well, while reviewing this site I’ve determined that you’re kind of an ass. Lighten up. This is a blog… not the Council of Nicea that folks are commenting on.
Smart asses really annoy those of us who actually know stuff.
“Smart asses really annoy those of us who actually know stuff.”
Well that rules you out then.
But seriously, Chucky – what do you know? Apart from your sister’s underwear size that is?
Truth of the matter is that Macs aren’t for everyone. I own a MacBook Pro and at the office I use Windows Professional 100% of the time, there’s is nothing available on the Mac with vast resources for the enterprise user, than a Windows machine. However, at home, I turn off windows and let the Mac run on the net to watch videos, listen to music, etc.
Apple’s strategy is not the enterprise, but winning the consumer market, which is everyone of us when we get home.
I rock both Windows and Mac and they both fit my dual lifestyle.
“Apple’s strategy is not the enterprise, but winning the consumer market …”
Hmm, the new Mac Mini + OS X Server begs to differ
The light on the front of the MacBook Pro doesn’t shine through the slit (that’s the IR receiver), but rather through a series of small, laser-cut holes. I would assume that this is not possible given the lower melting point of polycarbonate.
Still too pricey. My wife tried a Macbook a couple years back and couldn’t get used to it. Windows 7 will make Macs pretty much irrelevant and overpriced. The price premium as it is is kind of ridiculous. Let the flames begin!
lol Just like Vista was suppose to? Get a brain. Even Ballmer’s having trouble keeping a straight face when he tells people 7 is anything more than just Vista SP3. Have fun paying for basic features M$ should have included years ago.
O and ofcourse, Windows still isn’t safe for online banking and shopping…two things I’m sure your wife loves LMAO.
You really shouldn’t make fun of your wife’s learning disability in public.
overpriced and looks identical to the model that is now 4 years old. totally boring release. if it was $599, it’d be interesting.
$999 for a plastic laptop with outdated hardware? no wonder apple is having record profits
Yeah, they couldn’t possibly be making record profits because they make great products. Must be a scam that no one but you has figured out yet.
Looks-wise I prefer the old Macbook (as in the generation before this one). I don’t know what anyone else thinks but it looks more cheap.
I guess Apple didn’t want to make it look too good so people would go buy the Macbook Pro and give them more money.
Hmmm… I’m pretty sure there are already plenty of horrendously ugly, barely working, painful to use Windows laptops that make people want to go buy MacBook Pros. Not sure that Apple needs to create that market.
I am surprised that their lone remaining MacBook still costs $999. My bet is that either it was supposed to cost less but something didn’t quite work out with the parts supplies or, more likely, they figured a bunch of “early adopters” would gladly pay the $1000 for a new model and the price will come down by $150-$200 in the near future.
okay, but how can you call macbook pros “overpowered”
Hey @Ryan, you’re a knob. You’re like that annoying person at the party who doesn’t want to leave.
No mention, either, of the plastic case pulling apart from the little magnets in the cover . . . or has that been fixed? Had to have mine replaced before the warranty ran out and now that it has run out, the plastic needs replacing again . . . While we all understand reviewers going gaga over Mac design, some of us users might like a bit more attention paid to the quality of the product itself. Just my two-cents worth. I had a Toshiba that lasted for years on a sailboat subjected to salt water and spray when I lived aboard. I wonder if a Mac would have survived that!
My 2006 macbook is still going strong with a few scratches and not a white as before but the problems you have I guess I didn’t know they existed.
I think that the MacBook is more of a “I’ve got this tank of an iMac/PC running at home, I need something to go on the road with” machine. Most of the people I know who are getting a MacBook as their primary machine will get a Pro instead.
Obviously, the price would be better at US$849, which would still net Apple a decent profit.
I’m not sure any of the manufacturers specify profit PER model. I think most of us assume that Apple, HP, Sony, Dell, Toshiba, ACER, etc., post much higher profits on the upper tier products and much lower profit per unit on the lower or entry level tier. Every manufacturer tries to price their entry level and upper level products based on predicted sell throughs and hope they sell enough upper end items to offset the lower margins on the better selling lower end items.
The plastic MacBook fits into many institutional purchasing plans, such as schools. In particular, the plastic cases (Apple’s and other makers’) tend to handle impact better. That is, the case absorbs the shock and may crack, but the machine still functions. Very rigid cases like the Apple MBP, when dropped hard, pass all the shock to the interior components.
Ultimately, every manufacturer has to take into account their existing customer base and how they perceive ‘value’ in the products the currently own and in what might be replacing them. This is paramount. Microsoft, HP, Apple, etc. are still here because they have batted at some average that keeps them in the game.
Personally, (I’m 54 and have been using PCs since 1981, starting with DOS and CPM, Macs since 1987, Linux since 1997) I think the best post was by KJ. Apple is effectively a money-making machine. They are like that generation that lived through the depression and for the next 50 years focused on being cash-rich. They still remember the 90s and are not about to make the same mistakes. They may make new ones, different ones, but not the same ones; at least for awhile.
As long as their growing customer base remains happy and feels they are getting good value in return for their money, I don’t expect to see any dramatic shifts in pricing structure.
I look forward to all the reports of this massively overpriced apple sheeple vanity box as they inevitably begin to discolor, crack, and melt.
Bad idea Apple. Now you the Mac bar/geniuses need to support an entire new level of users who barely know how to turn on a computer.
I sat in line for 30 minutes past my scheduled time at the Mac bar because some lady with a whinny kid couldn’t figure out how to sync her Iphone with her macbook. It was like watching your grama use a computer for the first time.
This is going to suck. Stay above the fray Apple!!! Not that I or we Mac users are ultra cool hip, but if you were running a company would you want to support all these type of people? If so then you become Dell or Microsoft. No product, not even Apple products can alleviate the “I thought the cd was a cup holder”.
And yet the primary selling point of Macs is supposed to be that they are easy to use & intuitive.
You don’t even know what the hell kind of image you’re buying into. The only thing worse than a fanboy is a confused fanboy like yourself.
The reviewer here seems to not understand the apple product line at all. This is simply an update of the long-running existing product lines, it wasn’t an attempt to fill a new niche. These lines have been the same for almost a decade at this point – there’s always been the MacBook and the MacBook pro; before that there was the iBook and the Powerbook filling exactly the same places, at approximately the same prices. And every 18 months or so, they update the hardware – that’s all this is, another update.
If apple wanted to make a netbook, you can be damn sure they’d have one. Clearly, they don’t see a point in moving into that market – but then again, they never have had any interest in the bottom-of-the-barrel platforms. They are only interested in the higher end of the spectrum, for a particular grade of consumer. You should expect to see a tablet from them long before they even *think* about pushing out a crappy little netbook.
Really, do a little research before pushing out half-baked reviews – you’ve hardly covered the features, while rambling on and on about the supposed philosophy of apple’s marketing.
My 2 year old white plastic Macbook is falling apart. My G5 iMac had the motherboard replaced 3 times. I love OS-X and the design of Mac hardware. But other than design, I don’t believe Mac hardware is any more reliable than a Dell or HP product. Buy a PC and load Ubuntu. I just signed for a new Dell Inspiron from via FedEx this AM. That’s my first non-Mac computer since 2004.
Well, that’s anecdotal evidence at best. You can find customers from any make or model that have had bad experiences. There are very thorough customer satisfaction measurements done all the time and, guess what, the major players all score the highest, generally. That’s why they are still around. It’s pretty obvious your experience, while real and valid for you, isn’t typical for very many Apple users.
In my personal experience, using three platforms (if we count all the versions of Linux I use as a single platform) I find I have pretty good experience with the more expensive hardware as well as the less expensive hardware. But perceived value is just that: perception based on many variables, most of them subjective. I don’t have the same expectations for every dollar spent. It depends on what the item is and how I expect it to perform for my dollar, based on past experience, advertised or implied promises, market valuations, personal finances, and on and on.
BTW, Ubuntu MINT is pretty nice to use. Good luck. There are over 1000 distos of Linux today. I track about 20. It’s crazy. Haven’t played with Windows 7 yet, but if I had a netbook, I’d probably put an Ubuntu or Debian variant on it. I assume you checked the specs carefully to make sure there is good support for the Inspiron model you purchased. Different wireless chipsets can wreak havoc on your plans for smooth sailing.
Pay U$999 for a plastic Mac-crap, no thanks! Visiting Bestbuy I found the new Nokia booklet in aluminum and Win7 for only U$299!!!
That Nokia Booklet POS is only $300 with a 2 YEAR wireless plan. It’s the exact opposite of a deal.
No mention of the keyboard, which is slightly critical to a review, no?
The chicklet keyboard on the older Macbooks is far inferior to the chicklet keyboad on the new MBPs, even though they look similar.
Do the new Macbooks now have the same keyboard as the MBP’s?
This does not seem to be a big deal as far as Mac book evolution goes, but, for all of us trying to forsee what the next gen iPhone will look like, or…the tablet…this is your clue.
Another hardware company peddling crap.
Netbooks are $300. I want a $300 computer and I can have one. Why in the smiling f*ck would I consider a laptop 3x that price that offers nothing more?
Let’s have a test. Take your $300 laptop and grab it by the sides and twist (common twist!). Now go do the same thing to a unibody MacBook or MacBook Pro. I bet that $300 laptop had quite a bit of crunching? I’m sitting here with my unibody Macbook and twisted it and it was rock solid. You can see and feel quality. Take that knowledge and find a PC laptop with the same quality. You’ll find that MacBook’s are not that expensive.
Perhaps if I was Bender from Futurama that would be an issue, but I fail to see how well something twists matters. I’ve had my $420 AUD Acer Aspire One for over 12 months, I’ve dropped it from 1.5 meters twice, it gets crushed in by backpack on the train floor daily and I never bother putting a cover on it. Everything still works perfectly. I call that quality.
nate ur funny but i dont think u have a clue about what ur talking about and ryan it seems u know what ur talking about but just shut up u complain and nag to much who cares about 999 laptop over a 300 netbook just buy what the hell u need to use why pay more if u only use it to surf the web and download music and u r a knob but thanks for the info i think im gonna go buy a mac lol
He says the performance is a little slower than the mpb. Its actually the exact same. even update ram from ddr2 to ddr3 (somthing most haven’t noticed) Its actually better due to the 250 gb HDD
Dear Steve Jobs,
Can someone get me a new browser? Some pigeon shat all over mine. Oh, nevermind – that’s just an overpriced piece of your shit.
As an Apple stock owner, please make cheaper computers. You already use crap hardware, comparatively. And plastic, no matter how you shape it is still fucking plastic. $1000, really? To join the douchebag club? You are not a luxury item. You are not a fucking BMW. Quit appealing to a niche market of metrosexuals and psuedo-intellectual fucktwits. The iPhone is now sub $100 w/contract. The iPod is cheap. Pull your pretentious, turtle-necked, face-beak out of your ass and make a fucking cheap computer, now.
Thank you!
just had a quick look in the apple store in sydney, the resolution is too big? and usb ports next to each other so no two big usb sticks next to each other. cannot be that hard to fix, i wonder why they don’t do it
Nice prose!
Lol ! interesting discussions, however MacBook is always a MacBook & buying a MacBook is like buying confidence.