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Wednesday November 8, 2006
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The idea behind lengthening the performance gap between the Macbook Pros and the Macbooks, creating more differentiation, just got thrown out the window. Barely a week after the Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo announcement, Apple releases the Core 2 updates to the Macbook 13-inch. The good news for Apple is that they still made it in time for the holidays, and now that the entire laptop line is updated, Apple is poised to have a great 4th quarter. Many of us, including myself, anticipated a new revision in 2007, but Steve Jobs managed to beat that forecast.
As with the previous models, the Macbook 13-inch White will have two processor flavors: The T5600(1.83Ghz) and the T7200(2.0Ghz) Core 2 Duos. The high end black edition will get the Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 as well. The memory configuration remains roughly the same, and standard hard drive configurations will start at 120GB for the black Macbook 13-inch. Hard drive options go up to 200GBs for those that need even more storage. Apple's Superdrive gets dual layer support like the Macbook Pros. And as for the rest of the features, they will all remain intact.
The Mackbook 13-inch White 1.83Ghz and 2.0Ghz configurations will start at $1,099 and $1,299, respectively. The Macbook 13-inch Black will start at $1,499.
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November 8, 2006 11:17 AM
I SO CALLED THIS. :)
I was just about to give up on it, too!
http://www.gearlog.com/2006/10/apple_macbook_pros_gets_core_2.php
A friend of mine just, literally two days ago, asked what I thought the possibility of getting a Core 2 Duo Macbook might be, and whether or not he would have to wait until next year, and now I'm realy really glad that I didn't answer him until this morning. ;)
Still. This does return to the original point that we brought up when the MacBook Pros got the Core 2 Duos. The Apple store is still down, getting updated with the new machines no doubt, but has that distinguishing feature between the consumer-end and professional-end portables now vanished again? Is the MacBook Pro just a tricked out MacBook, and does that mean people are still better off buying the MacBook, even if they pay the 150 dollar Steve Jobs tax to get it in shiny (yet gorgeous) matte black?
I wonder-but we'll all see what the new standard specs will be when the Apple Store comes back up. :)