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47 out of 52 people found this review helpful
4.5 stars
"The best Laptop i have used and i have used more then 14 budget laptops"
Pros: Very good built quality, very good finish, keyboard is really nice, performance is very good, screen is very bright and nice.
Cons: Intel graphics card but i know its difficult to get a good card for this low price in fact my compaq laptop which costed me $1382 after rebate has the same card.
Summary: I have used 4 compaq laptops 5 dell laptops 3 apple laptops, 1 HP laptop and 2 sony laptops in my past 6 years all ranging from 1000 to 1500 $ except powerbook which was 2400. till now 15" powerbook was my best laptop and the most costly too, when i heard about macbook yestarday i went a got myself one and was hoping it would atleast perform like powerbook because i feel apple maintains quality and finish of the product. I am using this macbook 2.0 Ghz for past 24 hours and i can say that its the best laptop i have ever used from both performance and quality point of view. It am comparing it to a compaq which i got just about 15 days back and which costed me almost $182 more then this laptop. it has a 1.66 ghz core duo a intel Graphics card and a dvd burner only thing that better about compaq is that its DVD burner is faster. other wise every thing about macbook make the compaq feel like a cheap laptop. i installed windows on macbook too and believe me windows look better on apple laptop that a compaq laptop the screen is better, battery like is better it almost gave me 5 hours of better life, keyboard is better to type, it has a optical out for sound and that make is sound way better then the compaq which has analog out, i tested both the machine on my onkyo home theater system and macbooks sound is just mind blowing. i shouldnt even talk about built quality and finish coz it leave compaq mile behind in that. it is the best laptop i have ever use and for so less, i would say its a bargain. if it only had a dedicated graphics card i would have give it a 10. i also wish that apple start making 2 button trackpads. overall it the best laptop for below $1500 to buy.
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There is software out there that will let you do a right click(e.g. by touching one cortner of the trackpad.
Also, I read somewhere that you casn also do this in the trackpad preferences on these machines.
Me - I'm so used to pressing the ctrl key it's not a problem(practise makes perfect..)
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In the con's you list lack of two button trackpad. Note that the new macbook has a new feature in which a click with two fingers on the track pad (like scrolling) creates a "right-click" or the equivalent of a control-click
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How can one person go through so many laptops? Sheesh.
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Great review, like your comparison. You must have a lot of money though, to have gone through so many laptops in such a short time! Especially when the Macbook has only been out about two days and you already have one. I'm not putting down your review, which was great, but are you like a laptop tester or what?
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Apple MacBook (13-inch, 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo):
$1,149.00
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