New MacBooks arrive!
 This
morning Apple released their new consumer portable, the MacBook. The rumor sites
were mostly right about this one. They sport 13” glossy screens with 1280
x 800 resolution. The low end model is $1,099 and has an 1.83Ghz Intel Core Duo
processor, 512MB of memory, a 60GB 5400 rpm hard disk, and a combo drive. The
middle model goes for $1,299 and ups the processor to 2.0Ghz and swaps the combo
drive for a SuperDrive. Finally, the high-end model goes for $1,499 and ups the
hard disk to 80GB and gives you a spiffy black shell instead of the white of the
other two models.About the only thing
you can really complain about in this lineup is the fact that the MacBooks use
GMA integrated graphics and not stand-alone graphics cards. That will certainly
hurt them to some degree when it comes to gaming. But otherwise they are quite
impressive, even featuring the extended desktop feature that has long been
crippled on the iBooks. While it’s true that paying $200 for an additional
20GB of hard disk space and a black case may not make the most economic sense,
I’m sure they’ll sell plenty of the black models. A lot of people
have been waiting for a black portable from Apple ever since they discontinued
the venerable Pismo (the last PowerBook
G3). I
for one will be very interested to see some actual photos of these machines
“in the wild” and not just Apple’s CG-like renderings. Things
to watch for include: how the glossy screens will look and how they will affect
usability, and how the “latchless” lids will work.
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