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First Look: The new Apple Macbook

Tuesday October 21, 2008
Written by Alex Kidman
Tags: Apple | Macbook
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Is Apple good at design? Usabilty? Both or neither? Also, where has all the Firewire gone? Alex Kidman has been testing Apple's new Macbook and gives his first impressions.
 
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bbjai
Oct 21, 2008 3:12 PM
 The price bugs me far more then anything else. I think the specs aren't really all that improved to justify nearly $500 increase on a base notebook. Companies like Apple should just hack foreign exchange movements. Thats what hedging and the likes are for.

The track pad is interesting. Have you by any chance tried it out on Boot Camp with XP or Vista?? It only has one button as far as I can tell?


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First Look: The new Apple Macbook?
Is Apple good at design? Usabilty? Both or neither? Also, where has all the Firewire gone? Alex Kidman has been testing Apple's new Macbook and gives his first impressions.


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Alex Kidman
Oct 21, 2008 4:45 PM
 I haven't tried Boot Camp as yet, but I can't see why it'd be any different to the existing MB/MB Pro setup -- one button does left click, while two fingers on the trackpad and clicking does right clicks. Performs the same trick in OS X and VistaXP via bootcamp -- which makes sense, given that the drivers you'd be using are Apple supplied ones in that case.
bbjai
Oct 21, 2008 5:25 PM
 Ah sounds good, I've always wanted a Macbook and XP usage was one reason i didn't want to
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