The Apple Macbook With Its All Might

By Author: Asli Mana
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Weighing only 5.1 pounds, the MacBook weighs about half a pound more than the 12-inch PowerBook and 1.3 pounds more than the VAIO SZ. When calculated with the AC adapter the MacBook is 6 pounds at total, so we can count it in lightweigh class.

A short time ago I saw the Unibody Macbook, it just had everything i liked. Aside from the luxuriously luxurious price which is i can not afford. everyone expected the new Macbook to be cheaper, but because of Apple decided to build it just like the preceding MacBook Pro -without some hihg end feautres- the price is the same as it was.

Unibody, Apple's preferred word, is a little misnomer, cause of the bottom panel is seperated, also lid and display are made up by different parts. This MacBook is completely silent in terms of noise or creaks. The flexy and fragile feeling plastic hinge on this MacBook is no match for the Aluminum model's hinge. Rather than a LCD latch mechanism all MacBooks use a magnetic latch. White plastic polycarbonate is used on this model, the material that we know for a long time now. Just like its earlier versions (I can say I owned three versions) ...
... they are very durable. Where panels connect there are small gaps and also the battery sticks out a little bit. Controlling tolerances with plastic construction is harder than when using metal.

Apple builds the MacBook from a single chunk of polycarbonate - the same rigid material you might know from Nalgene bottles, CDs, and even bulletproof windows. It's tough, and the MacBook shows it. From the sculpted edges to the very center, which can typically feel a little soggy on cheap notebooks, the MacBook feels, well, bulletproof. The same solidification that happened on the MacBook Pro carries right over to plastic version, and we love it just the same.

LED backlit screen system is used on the 13.3 inch display (making that a standard feature across the all Apple laptop lineup), which is better for both energy consumption and environmental concerns. However, unlike the more expensive Pro models, you don't get the slick-looking edge-to-edge glass over the display. Other points of differentiation include the lack of an SD card slot and a backlit keyboard. and we would like to see a change on screen aspect rate towards to 16:9 as they are becoming the standard. The MacBook's 13.3-inch wide-aspect display is just about the perfect size: it's large enough for watching movies or working with two windows open side by side, still its small enough to allow you to put and airplane table on your lap.

It's also incredibly bright (an above average 230cd/m² on our Minolta luminance meter), also the 1.280x800 display resolution provide the perfect screen detail for this size of display. MacBook offers a glossy display, this is first on an Apple laptop, though in bright environments, the glossy coating results in more glare.

We're not typically fans of Chiclet-style keyboards, which always seem to lack the satisfying click of traditional models, still nobody can resist Apple's quality.

FireWire fans should note that the port has finally left the building. This would be a good chance to place an SD card slot just like on MacBook Pro, but they didn't.

When we look at Apple MacBook's performance, it's not bad but the point is there are faster laptops with just about the same cost. Still they don't have any of MacBook's best features; in my opinion iLife and OS x.

The Apple MacBook ran for 5 hours and 42 minutes on our video playback battery drain test, which is about 30 minutes longer than the 13-inch MacBook Pro, and nearly an hour longer than the previous white MacBook. Toshiba's Satellite T135-S1310, however, showed the advantage of using an Intel ULV processor, going for an additional 30 minutes to pass 6 hours of total running time.

Asli Mana is the writer of this laptop article. Too see her work about Lenovo laptop models see her Lenovo laptop website.