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Ars Technica Reviews the MacBook
phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has performed another of their in-depth and thorough hardware reviews. The subject in this review is the newly released MacBook. From the article: 'The Apple portable web site proudly announces that the "family is finally complete." What began with an announcement from Steve Jobs at the MacWorld conference in January has come full circle with the release of the MacBook this week. Every Apple laptop is Intel powered and moving in what I would consider is the right direction. The laptop line is finally better delineated by pro and consumer features, and the prices have been fixed at points that better reflect the minute differences in the models.'"
Last thing ars needs is threats from Apple Legal.
Funnily enough, the specifications for the laptop say that it can get very hot and to avoid burns and irritation the MacBook and MacBook Pro should be used on a desk or another surface. But if you primarily use it on a desk does that make it a desktop?
If the PowerBook became the MacBook Pro, what's the Power Mac going to become?
Mac Mac Pro?
Keep your eyes to the sky.
If the PowerBook became the MacBook Pro, what's the Power Mac going to become?
Double Big Mac.
Heh - it's classic. See Weird Al's "It's all about the Pentiums" for an example :D
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique! "
It's just a fact of life.
-WS
An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.
I really hate how Apple uses the so called "Superdrive" as something so special...
What are they gonna do when blu ray burners start becoming standard? Call theirs an ultradrive? Or a megadrive, and get sued by sega?
"laptop" does not appear once in the MacBook's manual."
The term "laptop" went away after the first guy burnt his dick on one.
Then they called them "notebooks".
I'm not sure I follow you...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I find it funny when people spend time reading through all the /. comments of each story ... but never read the story itself. It boggles the mind, it does.
Yeah, I picked up a few after I ran out of internal monitor bays in my case. They're more convenient, yeah, but usually more expensive than their internal counterparts.
LegendMUD
Regardless, speaking as a biologist, by placing anything that's warm on your lap for large portions of a day you're reducing your reproductive potential.
Speaking as someone who would like but can’t really afford a vasectomy, I could spin that as added value!
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?