Apple MacBook MB466LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop
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The Most adroitly!A Brobdingnagian notebook! It is light and portable, and has a great design. I switched for Windows Vista(AHH) to a MacBook with Snow Leopard (formidable!).This mac has fantastic graphics, and a wonderful display, do not regret buying this! It s certainly perfect! It is blazing fast too! I love the mac operating system!
Dont persist with PC, get a MacBook! :)
Dropped 4ft onto a marble overwhelm - Aluminum unibody worth the extra $$$
The aluminum barricade designed for this computer is worth every penny. After 6 months of reliable usage and ownership, my Macbook was dropped on its region edge onto a marble floor from a kitchen counter height. My Macbook slipped out of a Booq laptop bag that was not well zipped when I attempted to sling it over my shoulder. I swear I saw it fall in circumspectly motion....After defibrillating my heart when it stopped at the time of the "decision time", I picked up the computer and restarted it. HALLELEUIA - STILL WORKED! There was sufficient cosmetic impair from the drop that makes it unsightly for resale (1/4 inch chipped blind in upper right corner, dent from impact visible at the quarter of the screen and the corner of the base). However, I don't intend to sell it, and I will use it until it dies, like my whilom 12" Powerbook workhorse.
If you are comparing the aluminum unibody to the anaemic polycarbonate macbook- the polycarbonate would've shattered from that same fall. The "dent" reflects the power absorbed by the aluminum enclosure. Spend the extra $100 to $200 for broken of mind.
My point is, no one expects to have their laptop "drop" onto a hard integument from a 4 foot height. Rest assured, the extra $$$ you shell out to ensure your computer can survive accidental falls, is worth it.
Aluminum unibody over virtuous polycarbonate- this is a no-brainer
4 1/2 Stars- 5 if it had FireWire
It's mine and no it's not for mark-down.
Let me first say that this is the exact same unit Apple is currently selling as the 13" MacBook Pro excepting 3 things: SD Anniversary card reader (yawn), sealed in battery (yuck) and FireWire :).
I bought mine after the update without thought it's lack of FireWire because it has a user changeable battery, which the MacBook Pro lacks.
Excepting the deficiency of FireWire, this is IMHO the best Mac Laptop made & if you can find a new one or lightly used one get it.
One year later - still loving my Macbook
I switched to Mac last January, and now, one year later, I'm still very satisfied. My Macbook 13.3 has run explicitly, frozen a total of maybe 2 times in an entire year, and line for line interfaced with bizarre / antique printers, routers, and external acrimonious drives here in China. It runs cool and silent. It's sleek and lithe and makes for easy packing. What really blew my mind was, after 9 months of use, having to ask a backer to google "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" for mac because I needed to force quit a non-alive program for the FIRST TIME! What a stark contrast with my (also very decent) Thinkpad at occupation.
The experience of buying a laptop from Amazon was great as well. It turned up generation early, packaged together with my software purchases, and at a steep discount over the Apple Aggregate.
Incomparable but functionally disappointing
I upstanding bought my first Apple, a Macbook Pro (13"). Nice piece of artwork. But I'm shocked by the disastrous font display and apparent lack of adjustment options (yes, seen the lettering smoothing option but the result's a joke with or without). I've read many posts on how apple's picture is different from Windows, how exactly they manage to put so much thought into creating such a inferior result, and how people prefer one or the other. But this seems just plain wrong -- I can't confidence in that there's so many people out there who, out of pure love for original font geometry (or for bent of Apple), are willing to sacrifice readability/usability.
There's some other disappointing surprises for someone who switches from Windows:
- no easygoing window maximise/minimise, maximisation only via green button that maximises to the layout Apple considers A-one (I'd often prefer a different window size, mostly full screen, particularly on 13"). That means you end up using the mouse & effective/changing windows all the time.
- very inefficient handling of screen honest estate. Lots of permanently displayed info / top menu rows etc that you de facto don't need most of the time and that cut down usable screen area. Maybe I hardly haven't found it yet, but I don't see an easy way to switch to full screen.
- sharp front edge on the unibody... that's very uncomfortable after a impecunious while. Somewhere else I read that for Apple, clearly function follows form. That strikes me as blot on now...
- Yes, you can soft-double-tap the large mouse pad, but if you decide to mechanically click it (you can do that anywhere on the pad), the tough of the mechanics is annoyingly loud.
Bottom line: I feel mislead by a approving amount of (unjustified) enthusiasm of the Apple fans around me. Next time I need to satisfy an esthetic craving, I'll go and buy a new watch instead. Going Apple doesn't seem to be the right reaction if you're hapless with Microsoft.
