Thursday, May 23, 2013
Apple 13 inch Mac Book Pro
by Kevin OBrien
The new 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro brings a lot of new features to the table from the previous generation. Users now get a large battery that gives pretty amazing life, a better display, faster processor, FireWire, SD-card slot, and best of all a lower starting price. Getting more for less seems to be the trend during this slow economy, so is there any reason not to buy the new 13" MacBook Pro? Read our full review to find out.
13-inch Apple MacBook Pro Specifications:
- Mac OS X v10.5.7 (9J3032)
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz (3MB L2 cache, 1066MHz frontside bus)
- 2GB 1067MHz DDR3 SDRAM
- 160GB 5400rpm SATA hard disk drive
- 13.3" glossy widescreen TFT LED backlit display (1280 x 800)
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics (256MB of DDR3 shared memory)
- 8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- iSight webcam
- AirPort Extreme WiFi (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n)
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
- Mini DisplayPort, Ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports (480Mbps), FireWire 800, Audio out and microphone in, SD-Card reader
- Dimensions : 0.95" x 12.78" x 8.94" (H x W x D)
- Weight: 4.51 pounds
- Integrated 58-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery
- 60W MagSafe power adapter with cable management system
- MSRP: $1,199
Build and Design
The 13.3" MacBook Pro is very sleek and classy, which is what we have come to expect from Apple. The design is sharp with the unibody chassis showing no panel lines or breaks except on the bottom for the huge panel that covers the internals. Apple gives us a very simple interface with little clutter (and ports) turning what is usually a mindless appliance into a work of art. To further simplify the design they switched to an internal battery for this model, instead of having a cover and release bar like in the previous revision.
Build quality is excellent thanks to the very strong and rigid unibody chassis that is machined out a solid block of aluminum. Unless you were going to clamp the MacBook Pro in a vise and try to bend it, you cant really find any flex anywhere on the main half of the notebook. The screen cover does flex slightly under strong pressure, but with something that thin it was expected. Without any plastic panels, except at the screen hinge, there are no parts to squeak or creak under normal use. Outside of a few rugged models I cant think of a single notebook that has a stronger chassis than the unibody MacBooks.
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Normally simple upgrades such as swapping in a faster hard drive or upgrading the system memory (or changing the battery) take a few additional steps on the new 13.3" Macbook Pro. To access user-serviceable components you must buy a precision Phillips head screwdriver, and remove 10 screws around the perimeter of the notebook. With the cover off you get access to the battery, hard drive, optical drive, and tightly stacked system memory. Once you overcome the fear of ripping off the bottom of your new shiny MacBook Pro, upgrading the components isnt that bad. The only problem that might come up is going against the recommended advice from Apple to not disconnect the main battery when swapping out components. Usually you want to unplug AC and the battery from notebooks before you change the RAM or hard drive to prevent damage.
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Screen and Speakers
The screen on the MacBook Pro is average compared to other glossy panels, and has the downside of having the highly reflective glass layer over the LCD. This increases the amount of reflection from other objects, including you sitting right in front of the notebook. While you do adjust to it after a while, it can still be annoying. Pictures and movies look great thanks to the glossy surface and a healthy 60% bump in color gamut over the previous generation MacBook, which gives vibrant colors and deep blacks. Overall brightness is excellent for viewing in brightly lit rooms like in an office building or lecture hall. If you were able to find a spot of shade you could also use it outdoors as long as you find a strategic position away from any glare. Viewing angles are average for a TN-panel LCD, with colors starting to show signs of inversion when titled 20-25 degrees forward or back. Horizontal viewing angles are much better, with colors staying accurate at steep angles, right up until the point where reflections overpower screen.
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The speakers sound weak compared to other notebooks, with little bass or midrange sound. The enclosed position of the speakers doesnt help with stereo separation, so it ends up sounding like one mono speaker. For enjoying some iTunes music or watching a movie headphones are the best option. The MacBook Pro also supports digital audio out through the headphone jack, so hooking it up to a stereo for surround sound is another option you could go with.
Keyboard and Touchpad
The 13" MacBook Pro offers a full-size Chiclet-style Keyboard that is fully backlit for typing where overhead light might not be the best. While Sony originally created this style of keyboard, I think Apple really perfected it and made the better version. The keyboard is comfortable to type on and easy to transition to if you are used to typing on a standard notebook Keyboard with tighter key spacing. Individual key action is smooth with less than average pressure required to activate each key. Key noise is low, with a smooth almost-muted click when pressed. If you enjoy stealth typing, look no further. The backlight is nice even when your room isnt completely dark. If you are not used to an Apple keyboard, it makes it easier to spot keys since everything is lit up. The backlight is also fully adjustable, to be brighter when the room is brighter, and dimmer when you dont need the keys blindingly-bright in a pitch black room.
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One trade-off to the shape of the unibody MacBook Pro is the sharp edges around the perimeter. The palmrest on most notebooks have a slightly rounded or sloped edge for the front of the palmrest, whereas the MacBook Pro is a perfectly flat surface with a sharp edge. If you normally hang your wrists off the edge like I do, one thing you notice over time is the edge digging into your wrist. If you have small hands this might not be a big deal, but for someone like me it gets painful quick. This is just another example of form having a higher priority than function.
The touchpad is a large multi-touch surface with no separate touchpad buttons. The clicking action is through a clicker button under the touchpad, which allows the entire surface to "click". If you are used to other touchpads, it takes a while to get used clicking the surface itself, instead of a button below it. In OS X the touchpad sensitivity is excellent, offering no lag on the default sensitivity settings. Contrast this with Windows, where the driver support doesnt give you the same fluid experience. Movement is choppy and over-sensitive, where the cursor will sometimes release an object mid-drag or take many tries to double click. Another problem we ran into is the touchpad sometimes detected a slight increase in fingertip pressure as a double click, opening applications when moving over a list in the start menu. None of these problems happened within OS X.
Ports and Features
The new 13" MacBook Pro offers two USB ports, one mini-DisplayPort, LAN, and the return of FireWire 800. While eSATA is generally the best when it comes to fast external storage, more Mac-targeted Storage devices offer FireWire from the long standing Apple support of the standard. The Macbook Pro also offers a headphone jack and a new SD-card slot, bringing it to the same level that most PCs have been at for a number of years.
The most notable feature on the MacBook Pro is a handy battery gauge mounted on the side of the notebook. Pressing the button lights up a number of eight LEDs showing the current charge level of the battery. This is a handy feature if you are thinking about grabbing the computer before you head out the door without an AC adapter ... just in case the battery is actually dead.
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Performance and Benchmarks
Outside of gaming performance the system handled 720P and 1080P HD movie decoding with ease, perfect for a home theatre hub with a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI adapter. While we didnt see any significant slowdowns related to the 5400rpm hard drive in our review model, upgrading to a 7200rpm drive would decrease boot and application load times. Battery impact should be minimal, but you will probably see a drop of 15-30 minutes. One interesting hard drive related quirk we noticed with the new MacBook Pro was the drive was working on SATA-150 mode only. Some of our forum members are experiencing this problem as well, which you start to see after you upgrade to a fast SSD that is capable of pushing more than 150MB/s. It is too early to say if this is a hardware or software bug, but we are leaning towards a software problem.
XBench 1.3 summary results:
| Model | Overall Score |
| MacBook Pro 13 (2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) | 135.52 |
| MacBook 2008 (2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) | 126.23 |
| MacBook Pro (2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) | 106.05 |
| MacBook (2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) | 95.89 |
| MacBook Air (1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) | 50.76 |
| PowerBook G3 Pismo (500MHz G3) | 18.47 |
wPrime processor comparison results (lower scores mean better performance):
| Notebook / CPU | wPrime 32M time |
| HP Pavilion dv4t (Core 2 Duo T9600 @ 2.8GHz) |
| 26.972 seconds | |
| Dell Studio XPS 13 (Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.4GHz) | 31.951 seconds |
| Apple MacBook Pro 13 (Core 2 Duo P8400 @ 2.26GHz) | 34.209 seconds |
| Toshiba Satellite U405 (Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.1GHz) | 37.500 seconds |
| HP Pavilion dv3510nr (Core 2 Duo P7350 @ 2.0GHz) |
| 38.656 seconds | |
| Dell Inspiron 13 (Pentium Dual Core T2390 @ 1.86GHz) |
| 44.664 seconds |
PCMark05 measures overall system performance (higher scores mean better performance):
| Notebook | PCMark05 Score |
| HP Pavilion dv4t (2.8GHz Intel T9600, Nvidia 9200M GS 256MB) | 5,463 PCMarks |
| Dell Studio XPS 13 (2.4GHz Intel P8600, Nvidia 9500M GE 256MB) | 5,450 PCMarks |
| HP Pavilion dv3510nr (2.0GHz Intel P7350, Nvidia 9300M GS 512MB) | 4,920 PCMarks |
| Lenovo ThinkPad X301 (1.6GHz Intel SU9400, Intel 4500MHD) | 4,457 PCMarks |
| Toshiba Satellite U405 (2.1GHz Intel T8100, Intel X3100) | 4,145 PCMarks |
| Apple MacBook Pro 13 (2.26GHz Intel P8400, Nvidia 9400M) | 4,136 PCMarks |
| Dell Inspiron 13 (1.86GHz Intel T2390, Intel X3100) | 3,727 PCMarks |
3DMark06 graphics comparison against notebooks @ 1280 x 800 resolution (higher scores mean better performance):
| Notebook | 3DMark06 Score |
| Dell Studio XPS 13 (2.4GHz Intel P8600, Nvidia 9500M GE 256MB, Hybrid SLI) | 3,542 3DMarks |
| Apple MacBook Pro 13 (2.26GHz Intel P8400, Nvidia 9400M) | 2,139 3DMarks |
| Dell Studio XPS 13 (2.4GHz Intel P8600, Nvidia 9500M GE 256MB, Integrated) | 2,090 3DMarks |
| HP Pavilion dv3510nr (2.0GHz Intel P7350, Nvidia 9300M GS 512MB) | 1,865 3DMarks |
| Lenovo ThinkPad X301 (1.6GHz Intel SU9400, Intel 4500MHD) | 712 3DMarks |
| Toshiba Satellite U405 (2.1GHz Intel T8100, Intel X3100) |
| 539 3DMarks |
| Apple MacBook Air (1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7500, Intel X3100) |
| 502 3DMarks | |
| Dell Inspiron 13 (1.86GHz Intel T2390, Intel X3100) | 470 3DMarks |
HDTune for the built-in hard drive:
Heat and Noise
Heat output is always a touchy subject when it comes to the newer aluminum-body Apple notebooks. When under stress the entire system acts as one huge heatsink, making it very unfriendly for your lap in those conditions. Under normal daily activity the MacBook Pro stays relatively cool, shedding heat into the air quite well, keeping the body cool to the touch. Fan noise under these conditions is non-existent. One situation that warmed up the notebook considerably was installing Windows Vista through BootCamp. The back section of the notebook, bottom, and keyboard had recorded temperatures as high as 115F. Unlike warm plastic, the aluminum body was quick to transmit this excess heat to your hands or legs making things quite unpleasant. Thankfully it was only during the installation that we saw temperatures get that high, but if you were gaming for a few hours or encoding lots of video you might experience the same thing. Below are two temperature readings taken from the 13" MacBook Pro during our tests. One shows how hot it can get while running Portal for 20 minutes, and the other shows what it is like under normal non-stressful conditions.
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Battery
Battery life was excellent ... even when running Windows Vista where MacBooks tend to have less-than-impressive battery life. The 58Wh battery is similar in capacity to most 6-cell batteries, but the times we saw were in line with notebooks having larger 9-cell extended batteries. In OS X with the backlight set to about 70%, wireless active, and the hard drive set to never turn off we found the 13" MacBook Pro to last 7 hours and 59 minutes. With the same testing conditions in Bootcamp, the MacBook Pro stayed on for 5 hours and 1 minute, still respectable for a 13" notebook, but far from optimal. Apple driver support inside Windows leaves much to be desired--making the notebook consume far more power than it should. It appeared the lower power states of the processor were disabled, keeping system power consumption between 12-13 watts for the length of the test. Another problem that kept recurring is the keyboard backlight wouldnt stay off. Under OS X you can completely turn off the backlight, but in Windows it is forced into automatic mode. You cant adjust the brightness of the keyboard until the computer detects less-than-optimal lighting conditions, then when you do it completely forgets the setting minutes later when another shadow is cast over the keyboard. Bottom line is if you want longer battery life for the MacBook Pro, keep using OS X unless Apple corrects this problem with an update.
Conclusion
The new 13-inch MacBook Pro has many strengths that make it a good notebook you should consider buying. It gets excellent battery life while running OS X, it can game on integrated graphics, its screen looks excellent, and it has fantastic build quality. With that said its all-aluminum design causes heat to be quickly transmitting into your skin acting as a huge heatsink, driver support inside Windows isnt the best, and the sharp edges of the palmrest can be painful to lean your wrists across. For its intended market most people wont care about the Windows driver problems and the substantial increase in battery life from the previous model is worth the internal battery. Overall if you can get past some of its design quirks it is a great notebook with a feature set that is hard to beat.
Pros:
- Excellent battery life
- Screen has excellent color and contrast
- Great build quality
- SD-card slot!
Cons:
- When the system is running hot you can really feel it
- Good looks put in front of ergonomics
- Poor Windows driver support
- Hard drive is limited to SATA-150 speeds
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Apple Macbook
While Apple’s laptop range is often criticised for its high prices, there’s no denying that it provides the kind of style and usability that few laptops can match. The Apple Macbook (£770 inc. VAT) is the entry-level model and is an impressively portable machine with plenty to offer the home user.
Although the Apple Macbooks 13.3-inch screen is quite small, it is arguably one of the best weve seen. Images are sharp and colour reproduction is excellent, bringing photos and movies to life. Deep black levels add an impressive level of contrast, helping colours and images to clearly stand out.
Apple’s iLife multimedia software suite is preinstalled on the Apple Macbook and helps you make the most of the screen. Powerful and intuitive tools for movie editing, photo management and web design are included, helping the whole family manage their multimedia files.
Since the potential for disaster is high if you catch your foot on a laptop’s power cable - as the force could drag the machine from your desk and send it crashing on to the floor - Apple eliminates this risk through the use of a magnetic power connector on the Apple Macbook. It attaches firmly but immediately pulls free of the chassis if any excessive force is applied to it, providing a neat safety feature. Its suprising more manufacturers havent followed suit.
The isolated-style keyboard of the Apple Macbook provides comfortable usability. All keys move firmly and respond well, but clack slightly when typing at speed. The row of function keys – F1, F2, etc – at the top double as multimedia keys for easy control of music, movies and system features.
Since Apple pioneered gesture-control functionality, the Apple Macbooks glass touchpad makes it easy to scroll through documents, zoom and spin images and move between multiple windows just by using basic swipes of your fingers.
Where the Apple Macbook is flawed is in its somewhat limited specification. The 250GB hard drive is not as capacious as many Windows-based rivals and just 2048MB of memory and a paltry two USB ports are included. Many other laptops better this specification at this price, so bear this in mind.
That’s not to say that Apple Macbooks performance is poor, however. The dual-core Intel processor ensures that Apple’s OS X operating system starts and responds quickly, and we found no issue with running multiple applications simultaneously, as well as editing our home photos and videos.
Although on paper you will get more for your money from a Windows-based laptop, it is the fine touches – such as the great software and usability – that make the Apple Macbook truly stand out. Unless you need the most bang for your buck, you are sure to like what’s on offer.
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Review sample provided by Laptops Direct
E-code MC207B/A
Processor Intel 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo P7550
Memory 2048MB DDR3 SDRAM
Hard drive 250GB (5400rpm)
Optical drive Dual-Format DVD DL
Screen size and type 13.3-inch Super-TFT
Display Resolution 1280 x 800 (WXGA)
Graphics Card nVidia GeForce 9400M
Dimensions 331 x 220 x 25mm
Weight 2.2kg
Wireless LAN 802.11n
Ethernet Gigabit
USB Ports 2
FireWire No
Operating System Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Standard Warranty 1 yr C&R P&L
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Apple MacBook Air
Apples latest notebook, the MacBook Air, is being hailed as the worlds thinnest. At well under an inch at the thickest point, the Air offers a thin design coupled with an extremely lightweight package for a notebook that has the same basic footprint as the standard MacBook. The flip side to all of this, however, is the (some say inexcusable) list of features left out, with a staggering price tag that has wallets cowering in fear at the cost of the top tier configuration.
Build and Design
The design of the MacBook Air is nothing short of amazing, when you compare its basic shape and look to a standard notebook. It is so incredibly thin compared to anything else I have played around with, and seems paper thin during use. With the display open and the notebook laying flat on your desk the palmrest is a pencil erasers height above the surface of your desk. The real beauty of this notebook though is its clean design with only one visible port connection, with the rest hidden by a magnetic latch cover. The body continues with its sleek look with all rounded and polished surfaces and not even a foot to catch when the notebook is being slid into a bag. Build quality is nothing short of amazing, and hands down one of the strongest notebooks I have ever felt. When closed the display cover does have some mild flex (give it a break, its thin), but the real strength is the palmrest and keyboard structure. Formed from a block of aluminum with the internal cavity CNC machined, it is super strong. No flex is present when mashing down on the palmrest, and picking it up with both hands to try to flex the body is futile. Comparing it to a known item like a Thinkpad, it would beat it hands down, with no plastic creaking to boot! You would need to move into the realm of Panasonic Toughbooks to find something that would be an equal competitor. The downside to this beautiful design is the missing features that have been standard on notebooks almost since conception. User replaceable batteries, decent port selection, or even a docking connector are all missing. While you could get away with an external hub and USB devices on the road for additional hookups, not having a spare battery to swap in is a huge disadvantage. Combine this with a slow charging battery and you have the opposite of an ultimate road warrior.
Display
The screen on the MacBook is very nice, with vibrant colors and intense backlight. Black levels are nice and even with very little backlight bleed showing through even on very dark scenes in movies or games. Comfortable viewing brightness during my review was around 15-20%, matching 80% on my Thinkpad. 100% on the MacBook Air is close to the brightness levels that my desktop LCD can reach. Viewing angles of the LCD were above average.
Horizontal viewing range was perfect up until the screen was blocked by metal backing, but vertical viewing range was limited if you went 10 to 15 degrees up or down from straight on.
No screen defects were present on our online purchased model; this included stuck and dead pixels as well as backlight bleed.
Keyboard and Touchpad
The MacBook Air keyboard is the slim key design that is also found across the board on other Apple products. Spacing is slightly off compared to a more normal keyboard, and it took a while to get used to the layout. Once you get past the transition, you notice the keyboard is very well built and pretty comfortable to type on. Individual keys require little pressure to activate, and the keyboard has zero flex.
Some items missing from the keyboard are markings for page up/down, home/end, but those key functions were present if you press the FN key and one of the arrow buttons.
The touchpad has a few unique qualities that are either not seen in most notebooks, or were a first for notebooks. Windows users will notice right away that the touchpad is roughly a billion times larger than anything they have seen before, while Mac users will feel right at home. Measuring in at 4.12" by 2.48" it was larger than anything I have ever used in the past. The new feature new to this touchpad on the MacBook air is its multitouch capabilities, which give the user the chance to play around with objects like they would on an iPod Touch or iPhone. This means pinching or spreading apart your fingers to zoom in and out, circling your fingers around to rotate objects, and other advanced motions. General use of the touchpad inside Mac OS 10 or Windows Vista was spotty with either sensitivity that was not adjustable to suite my preference, or the multitouch features kicking in when I was not expecting. The problem I found was my palm was always touching the edge of the touchpad while I was typing, and it would trigger a two-touch motion like scrolling, instead of moving the cursor.
Another obvious problem we encountered with the multitouch touchpad under Windows was the issue of touchpad freezes and blue screens. We suspect there is an issue with the touchpad drivers for Windows since we could consistently cause a failure simply by touching the touchpad with multiple fingers. Its pretty clear there is a problem when multiple touches disable a "multitouch" touchpad.
Performance and Benchmarks
The speed of the MacBook air was surprising from the moment we received. I expected it to be somewhat slow with its mobile processor, but its real world performance was lacking especially inside its native OS 10.5. Boot times were in the 56 second range, and starting up a wide array of programs took much longer than normal. Even basic rendering of web pages seemed to lag when viewing new pages. Bootcamp performance though (while very buggy) was quite snappy. Including the 16 seconds or so from power button press to the loading of Vista Ultimate, total boot time was 50 seconds to the Windows desktop. IE and Firefox loaded up much faster in Vista than Safari or Firefox did in OS 10.
Overall the machine seemed to enjoy running inside Vista more than it did OS 10, but bugs were prevalent all throughout bootcamp with the current Apple-provided drivers. The touchpad was the source of many problems, including six bluescreens and 30+ touchpad lockups from "multiple touches." While the features worked occasionally trying to use the scrolling motions or even tapping multiple fingers on the touchpad would be enough to lock until a reboot. The bluescreens would often come at random, with the culprit always being the "Applemtp.sys" driver crashing. More than a few times the machine would bluescreen when I was not even touching anything on the notebook.
The keyboard backlight was another source of problems, rarely working inside Vista. 10% of the time the backlight worked from system startup, but would quickly turn off 5-10 minutes later. When you would try to adjust the brightness the on-screen display would display an "X" as if the device was not present.
System benchmarks in Vista did quite well, and were above what we were expecting after the poor Mac OS results found in our first thoughts review. Gaming even became possible in Vista, with Half-Life running perfectly at 1280x800, and Half-Life 2 having decent frame rates at 640x480.
wPrime is a program that forces the processor to do recursive mathematical calculations, the advantage of this program is that it is multi-threaded and can use both processor cores at once, thereby giving more accurate benchmarking measurements than Super Pi. (Lower scores indicate better performance.)
Heat
One downside to an all aluminum design is the entire notebook acts as one gigantic heatsink. In the case of the MacBook Air, you have a machine that runs a bit on the hot side that burns your hands when the system is under stress. With the processor underneath the top left section of the keyboard, it is hottest in that area, which also happens to be the same spot gamers place their left hand for movement controls. Playing Half-Life for any decent length of time puts your hand in a situation where the surface of the notebook is pretty darn hot, almost unbearable. The bottom of the notebook during all of this is hotter still, and very uncomfortable for bare legs. Gaming might not be a primary use for this notebook, but other CPU intensive activities like compressing music or encoding video will put you in a similar situation.
While your average web browsing might not get to the same temperature peaks that I found during gaming, even normal activity had this notebook feeling hotter than any other notebook I have used. Most of this could probably be associated with the type of case, but is still worth mentioning. Below are temperature readings listed in degrees Fahrenheit.
Battery and Power
Apple claimed five hours of battery life with wireless enabled, and from my testing I think that would be possible ... under the right situation. With screen brightness at 25%, Bluetooth off, and WiFi on, the MacBook Air got 4 hours and 20 minutes of battery life with above average web activity. Half of this time was spent in Mac OS, with the other half in Vista. If you had very light internet traffic, or even had wireless disabled and were just typing on the notebook you should get five hours or more productivity from the battery.
One huge complaint this notebook gets in my opinion is the integrated battery. Not only can you not swap the battery if it dies while traveling, but to make matters worse the charging speed is abysmal. Our MacBook Air from a dead state would only reach 25-30% after charging for one hour with the notebook turned off. On most notebooks, in this period of time the battery would be well above 50% if not much higher.
specifications:
* Mac OS X v10.5.1 Leopard and Windows Vista Ultimate
* Intel Core 2 Duo P7500 1.6GHz (4MB L2 cache, 800MHz frontside bus)
* 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
* 80GB 4200rpm parallel ATA hard disk drive
* 13.3" glossy widescreen TFT LED backlit display (1280 x 800)
* Intel GMA X3100 graphics (144MB of shared memory)
* iSight webcam
* AirPort Extreme WiFi (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n)
* Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
* Micro DVI, USB 2.0 port (480Mbps), Audio out
* Dimensions : 0.16-0.76", 12.8", 8.94" (H, W, D)
* Weight: 3.0 pounds (3lbs 0.6oz actual)
* Integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery
* 45W MagSafe power adapter with cable management system (6.5oz)
Friday, May 17, 2013
apple MacBook New Features
with Intel Core2Duo MacBook makes it more nimble, especially after the apple install Memory 2GB, which makes this notebook more stable, to storage media, Apple has been preparing hard drive of 500GB which is mounted in this MacBook. with 13.3-inch glossy widescreen technology is accompanied that was helped by Nvidia GForce 320M graphics processor makes the MacBook stability is assured in terms of watching film,
view and edit photos, play games, graphic design and video editing,
equipped with battry lithium-polymer that makes the MacBook lasted for 10 hours, which will benefit all for those of you who like a mobile, let alone equipped with airport Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi that allows you to surf internet anywhere as long as within that area there is Wi-Fi signal, and for connectivity with gadgets, this notebook already equipped with Bluetooth 2.1, and for the disc media, it is mounted MacBook SuperDrive that can read CD / DVD.