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Tuesday May 16, 2006
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Following rampant rumors across the blogosphere, Apple annouced the latest replacement for the iBook, the Macbook (sans Pro). It's a 13.3 inch widescreen, Intel Core Duo powered 5.2 pound ultraportable thin and light notebook with a built-in slot mounted optical drive. It's going for $1,099 to $1,499 base price, depending on which CPU, optical drive, and hard drive you want. So far it looks like the black version is only available as a top of the line 2.0GHz Core Duo model with DVD burner and 80GB hard drive. Lesser MacBooks use a 1.83GHz or 2.0GHz Core Duo, 60GB hard drive and either a DVD/CD-RW combo drive or a DVD burning SuperDrive. I was expecting a single core Core Solo to keep the price down, but again Apple surprises everyone. I'm also looking forward to the opening of the new cube-shaped Apple store on 5th Avenue in NYC (our home base) later this week. I would've expected the annoucement of the MacBook at that event. Oh well, at least I'll be getting my commemorative t-shirt. Check back with gearlog.com and pcmag.com for more on Apple's new consumer ultraportable thin and light notebook.
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May 16, 2006 8:53 PM
seriously! I have to admit, while it's definitely no ultraportable, it's pretty small and feature packed, and still lighter than the MacBook Pro, if I'm not mistaken. I'm impressed, and yes yes, I'm going to go out and say that I like the black gloss. I'm happy with my MacBook Pro, but this is definitely nice.