Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Dec 2007 22:26 UTC
Ars has reviewed the new Santa Rosa-based MacBook, and concludes: "All in all, the new MacBook is shaping up to be a worthy replacement to my old PowerBook. In combination with Mac OS X 10.5, the most polished iteration of Apple's operating system, the MacBook is a joy to use. Even Omniweb, my favorite but much-maligned web browser, is snappy, and the Core 2 Duo processor appears capable of handling anything I throw at it. Certainly for someone with my fairly modest computing needs (word processing, web browsing, data manipulation, light graphics work, and media playback) the consumer line does what I want and does it well."
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Battery life: Every single mac note book I've ever owned from the toilet seat ibook(my first experimental foray back into macs back in the day...) I've managed to get a good 3.5 -4h out of when they were new. Granted, I ALMOST never ran the LCD on max brightness, usually preferring fairly low settings, and was not playing music OR videos other than what may have been embedded in a web page. IOW I was mostly web browsing, using word, maybe playing a game now and then, tinkering around with system task scripting, software development, as well as other activities.
I LOVE the color. Nice to see black again! Especially for a lowly macbook.
GPU: Still shipping with the crappiest GPUs known to man is a HUGE drawback in my book though. I'd like to see them move to either ATI or nVidia mobile GPU solutions as Intel isn't ever going to make a GPU that offers anything approaching what the big boys in GPUs offer. (Then again, they did FINALLY manage to kick AMD's butt and release the Core 2 Duo, so you never know, but as they stand now those Intel GPUs really and truly suck.)
Packaging: I never really cared for the relatively huge boxes that all Apple notebooks came in, be they ibooks, powerbooks, or the various macbooks and won't miss bigger packages so long as the smaller ones offer the similar protection to the larger package. (Never had to ship any of mine, but you never know...)
The desktop machine packaging was more reasonable, but those were MUCH more massive and required more bracing, plus I'd not like my shiny case scratched up if someone at a parcel service punctured or otherwise beat my box to hell. (Occurs extremely rarely nowadays, so I'm not as concerned as I used to be...)