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
CNET has a video review of the new Apple MacBook – Apple’s Intel Core Duo-powered replacement for the 12- and 14-inch iBook, as well as the 12-inch PowerBook. As you know, it has a 13.3-inch widescreen display and starts at around $1099.
The CNET Editors have also published their take of the MacBook, saying that the value gap between Apple laptops and the PC competition has narrowed significantly (i.e. that Apple products are not nearly as expensive as they are sometimes portrayed).
Apple has finally announced their Intel-powered iBook replacement (iBook = low-end/consumer lineup if you will). It’s the 13.3-inch widescreen (glossy) MacBook. You can choose either a .183GHz Intel Core Duo T2400 CPU or a 2.0GHz T2500, and the price runs from $1099 through $1499 (or higher depending on options – those are base models).