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First Look: The new Apple Macbook

Tuesday October 21, 2008
Written by Alex Kidman
Tags: Apple | Macbook
AUD
$2099
Price at time of review.
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.
Price 2099
CPU model/brand Intel Core 2 Duo
CPU speed 2.4GHz
Memory capacity 2GB
Hard drive capacity 250GB
Internal optical drive Yes
Graphics type Dedicated
Graphics Nvidia GeForce 9400M
Screen size 13.2in
Screen resolution 1280x800
Weight 2.04Kg
Dimensions WDH 325x227x241mm
Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet
Wi-Fi 802.11n
Bluetooth ports Yes
USB ports 2
Firewire No
Output ports Mini DisplayPort/optical digital headphone
Operating system Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
Webcam iSight
Manufacturer Apple
Supplier Apple
Warranty 1yr
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Comments: 3
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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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