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Spec Check: Apple MacBook Mini Makeover |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
The Apple MacBook, Cupertino's consumer laptop offering is now
available with Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs a standard Gig of RAM and big
thumping hard drives capable of storing way more than your iPod. The
company's switch to Intel processors has meant far more frequent
updates compared to when it had to wait up to a year for newprocessor
offerings to shuffle of the PowerPC fab, but as a consequence teach new
release is only a marginal improvement on earlier models. So a Warning: the following specifications may disappoint some viewers.
One of the big improevments users will discover is the shift to 802.11n wireless networking. Though thisstandard is still draft it promises up to five times the performance and twice the range of the existing standard 802.11g, though you will need a 802.11n Airport too.
Just an inch thick, the MacBooks fhave a "gorgeous 13-inch glossy widescreen display" and come in three color-coded models so everybody know how much you paid for yours.
The US$1,099 2.0GHz
Core Duo machine and the US$1,299 2.16 GHz MacBook models are both traditional Apple bathroom white. If you get the US$1,499 2.16 GHz MacBook
model you graduate to piano black.
One thing we really like about the MacBook is Apple's
MagSafe Power Adapter that magnetically connects the power cord to the
latopw ans safely disconnects rather than breaking when if you give it a tug.
"The MacBook is a huge hit with customers, and is
one of the reasons that Mac sales are growing three times faster than
PC sales," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of
Worldwide Product Marketing.
"The newMacBook is faster, has even more
memory and storage, and is an ideal notebook for customers' growing
library of digital music, photos and movies."
Additional build-to-order options include 120GB or 160GB (5400 rpm) or a 200GB (4200 rpm)
hard drives and upgradingot 2GB DDR2 SDRAM.
Additional build-to-order
options also include pre-installed copies of iWork ‘06, Logic Express
7, Final Cut Express HD 3.5 and Aperture 1.5.
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13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display;
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2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
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667 MHz front-side bus;
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1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB;
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80GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
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a slot-load Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive;
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950;
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Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately);
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built-in iSight video camera;
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Gigabit Ethernet port;
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built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
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two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire® 400 port;
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one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
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Scrolling TrackPad;
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the infrared Apple Remote; and
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60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.
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13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display;
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2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
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667 MHz front-side bus;
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1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB;
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120GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
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a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950;
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Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately);
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built-in iSight video camera;
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Gigabit Ethernet port;
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built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
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two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 port;
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one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
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Scrolling TrackPad;
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the infrared Apple Remote; and
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60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.
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13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display;
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2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
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667 MHz front-side bus;
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1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB;
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160GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm) Sudden Motion Sensor;
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8x SuperDrive double-layer DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW;
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950;
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Mini-DVI out (DVI, VGA, Composite/S-Video adapters sold separately);
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built-in iSight video camera;
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Gigabit Ethernet port;
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built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
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two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 port;
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one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
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Scrolling TrackPad;
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the infrared Apple Remote; and
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60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.
   
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