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21
Jan 09

White MacBook now with 2.0Ghz and Nvidia 9400M graphics?

The Apple store is currently showing the white MacBook as “new” and shipping with NVidia 9400m graphics – the same chipset used in the new aluminum MacBooks. The speed is now also just 2.0 Ghz, down from 2.1 Ghz previously.

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It looks as though Apple has decided to move that model over to the new platform used in all the other current generation MacBooks.

However: the white model retains its Firewire 400 port, which might actually make the “cheap” plastic MacBook more interesting to some customers than the Firewire-less aluminum models.

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16
Oct 08

The New, Uncrippled Macbook.

With the introduction of the new aluminum Macbooks, Apple has finally dropped their long-standing policy of offering a “crippled” entry-level Notebooks. For years now the iBooks and Macbooks have been limited in one way or another in order to distinguish them from their “Pro” cousins. 

Whether G3 vs. G4, Combodrive vs. Superdrive, Mirroring vs. Screen Spanning, Plastic vs. Aluminum or Integrated Graphics vs. Dedicated Graphics, Apple’s low-end offerings over the years have always included some kind of “gotcha” to keep them from cannibalizing Powerbook / Macbook Pro sales.

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