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4.5 stars
"MacBook Pro Lite"
Pros: Speed, Screen, Loaded with features for the price
Cons: Case scratches VERY easily. Can get hot with heavy use.
Summary: I opted for the the 1.83ghz combo drive model
I'm now officially a MAC convert. I've had several Ipods and wanted to buy a PowerBook a year ago but when I heard they were going to Intel processors I decided to hold out. The increased bus speed (667 mhz)is going to give help Apple compete much better with Windoze based PC's. Clearly Apple has them all licked with OS X and their hardware designs.
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This firmware update helps to cool this baby down. I have one and updated the firmware and it helps here is the link
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macbooksmcfirmwareupdate.html -
I dig your enthusiasm, and it's great that you've moved to the mac. But it sounds a little funny to me that anyone would say that Apple "nailed it" only now, when they started building computers with an inferior architecture (Intel/x86). Apple has been nailing it for years. You're just a little late in the game...which is fine. But since you didn't have a chance to get to know the PowerPC architecture that Apple has been using, you can't really say whether or not Apple has nailed it. I understand that speed means everything in the minds of most computer buyers, but it's nonsense. Even with the added bus speed the Intel Core Duo running at 2GHz is still slightly slower than the DualCore 2GHz G5 (PowerPC) in some tests, and on-par in other tests. The added bus didn't make it faster than PowerPC. The Intel Mac platform isn't ready for the mainstream, and won't be until the power-hungry applications get ported over to the new platform.
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Apple MacBook (13-inch, 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo):
$489.99 - $1,149.00
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