Gizmodo talked to Apple and received some very interesting information in regards to Apple’s new Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pros. Now the MacBook Pros are not something we’d normally talk about, since they are have 15 and 17-inch displays, but the following was too interesting not … Read more
Apple has just updated their MacBook lineup – the 13.3-inch Intel Core 2 Duo powered laptop. Changes: – CPU Speed bumped from 1.83GHz and 2.0GHz to 2.0GHZ and 2.16GHz – 4MB L2 Shared Cache instead of 2MB. – 1GB of memory standard (previous – 512MB) … Read more
Last week, Steve Jobs confirmed that Apple will be moving from flourescent lamps to Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for the displays of their laptops (Apple.com/hotnews/AGreenerApple). He said they planned on doing this before the end of 2007. It would appear that they are moving aggressively … Read more
HardMac.com has a comparison of the Apple MacBook“>Apple MacBook with other Apple notebooks of the past.
Something that has generated a lot of buzz – CreativeMac has published some benchmarks using Apple’s Final Cut Studio. Keeping in mind that Final Cut Studio is considered to be a “professional” application, and is not targeted at the same audience that the MacBook is Final Cut Studio is a suite of applications for video, motion graphics, and audio manipulation/editing and is well regarded in the movie industry, and it is a Univeral Binary (it will run well on either PowerPC or Intel-based Macs).
ArsTechnica has put together their review of the Apple MacBook – Apple’s new Intel Core Duo-powered 13.3-inch widescreen notebook. They point out something that has been floating around some of the notebook sites – If you bump the middle MacBook up to an 80GB harddrive, it’s still $150 cheaper than the black one, and why the black one is still more expensive