MacBooks are go!

[adderslj]

13" screens - choice of white or black.

Ooooh...

Comments

[kit-hartford.livejournal.com]

I can't quite figure out why the black 2ghz is £130 more than the white while the sole upgrade, the HD, is a £40 build-to-order on the other. Paying for style, I presume.

[adders.livejournal.com]

Looks like it, yes.

A £90 premium for the colour black.

When I upgrade, it'll be a white one. :)

[kit-hartford.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to upgrade in lieu (in the short term at least) of getting a new desktop (since I solely work on the laptop and the PC is only for games). Decisions, decisions.

[fraserspeirs.livejournal.com]

Nice machine for the target market, and the processor levels are impressive - I had assumed they would be more in line with the Mac Mini.

My big gripe is: "Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory", so it's unlikely that Aperutre will run. Still it *does* support spanning.

[izzylobo.livejournal.com]

WANT!

WANT BLACK!

WANT BLACK NOW!

(but will be waiting to wait a month...)

:-)

[adders.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to hang on for release 2.

And hope that the price differential on the black goes away before then...

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Is 'hanging on' the voice of bitter experience? :-)

[adders.livejournal.com]

No - I've never bought version one of any Mac product.

Actually, no, tell a lie. I bought version one of the iPod, which is still working fine and in use by my mother.

I've just noted that they tend to improve the lines pretty quickly over the first few releases in a revamped line, and then settle down to incremental change.

So, I'll sit on my hands for a wee while yet.

[izzylobo.livejournal.com]

The problem is that I'm currently down to a single system at home (not through choice) - and running WinXP on a 600mhz processor is, umm... painful.

So, at this point, it's either break down and buy a new one (since this Toshiba could die at any time now, and I would cry) or buy an iBook or Powerbook 12", and then upgrade again in another year.

Which is an option, and I'm possibly going to do that, but I really like the black one... :-)

[adders.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's fair enough, then.

I have perfectly a perefctly servicable G4 iBook and an only slioghly aging G4 iMac, so I can hang on a while yet.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

How often are the revisions? I'm at the stage where I want / need a laptop, and the MacBook looks nice, and is affordable.

[adders.livejournal.com]

They tend to be between three to six months. The MacBook Pros are only 90 days old, and just got a speed and spec bump today, for example.

[aquamarcia.livejournal.com]

I'm holding out for a combination of further hardware shakedown and the next version of OS X.