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How common is the white macbook where you live?

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redrose1977

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From my own observations in London, for some reason I very, very, rarely see white macbooks when commuting. However, macbook pro's are two a penny.

On a separate note, I actually prefer the look of the white macbook to the aluminium unibody macbook which from a distance looks like every other generic silver laptop.

Would love it if Apple brought out a new black macbook.
 
I don't see many around. Then again, I don't sit in coffee shops, libraries, or any where else you'd expect to see laptops.
 
At my college in Chicago, they're common. I know like only 10% of all computers are macs but from peers laptops, my observation is that about half of students have macs. about 50-60 % of them have white macbooks, the rest have mbp's- mostly 13inchers, i seen a few15inchers, never seen a 17incher.

I admit, now that Apple has these 13in mbp's they're not nearly as common as they used to be.
 
Around here, white MacBook's are by far the most common Mac you see in public. I've seen dozens of them when I'm out and about. I've seen non-unibody MBP's once or twice, but other then that there aren't a whole lot of Mac users in this small town.
 
I also prefer the White macbook and white apple products in general but white is my favorate color
 
Stoutman11 said:
I also prefer the White macbook and white apple products in general but white is my favorate color
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I second that, but not because white is my favorite color. Aluminum and glass look nice but plastic is far more impact resistant. I don't want a warped or dented laptop.
 
I guess that about half the laptops around on my university is Macs, and half of them white macbooks.
 
I teach electrical engineering courses. I'd say about 25% of my students have Apple notebooks and the number grows from year to year (it was 0% three years ago). I haven't seen a unibody white plastic MacBook, only the older ones. There is one student with the Black MacBook. The most popular is the 13" Aluminum MacBook and MacBook Pro. I've seen 1 17" MacBook Pro and maybe a couple of 15" ones, but those with big notebooks tend to buy Windows systems.
 
Where I am located here in LA I see tons of white macbooks, including mine! hahahahaha But it's either the white MacBook, 13" MBP, and I've seen lots of iPads recently too!
 
I visit a lot of universities for giving lectures and I nearly always see the gray metal mac laptops. I like the white one because it looks better and all the cables match the color (power, video, ipod, ipod headphones). The metal macbooks are too hot for the lap anyways.
 
Here in New Zealand I see a tons of them at schools - most of them belonging to teachers. I see a few 13" MBPs, but not that many. I like the fact that the white MBs are more common than the 13" Pros. It makes me feel special :rolleyes:
 
vistadude said:
I visit a lot of universities for giving lectures and I nearly always see the gray metal mac laptops. I like the white one because it looks better and all the cables match the color (power, video, ipod, ipod headphones). The metal macbooks are too hot for the lap anyways.
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The 13" MBPs are cooler than the white plastic MBs :)
 
The thread title makes it sound like a bird :D

Personally, I don't really hang around anywhere you're likely to see laptops; I'm mostly at home and at school, where no one brings their own computers.
 
I only see people with aluminium macbook/macbook pros. The white macbook is a classic :) kinda wish i bought one of them. my next mac is gunna be an imac, not a macbook/macbook pro.
 
While I'm rarely around places where people bring their laptops now, when I was at college (less than a year ago) the white MacBook was the most common Mac I saw, followed by the 13" MBP. This is excluding the two Mac labs that the school has.
 
I used to see them more, but now apart from PC's and netbooks, it is mostly MBP's that I see at cafes and the public library. I went to a work conference in Scotland last month (1000 people; maybe 300 laptops and roughly a third of them were Macs; MBPs heavily outnumbered the white MacBook). Cost difference isn't that much over here, and if work pays for it, people tend to go for MBPs. I even saw a few PBG4's.
 
I honestly don't see a lot of people with Apple Computers at my school. I am one of the few people with an Apple Computer and it is a white unibody macbook :) I personally like it better than the MBP because it is white. I'm a girl so I just think it looks cuter! But you have to admit that the MBP does look more professional with the silver/black finish.
 
white macbook unibody

I commute daily to London as well as doing a fair amount of business-related travel every day. Mostly I see aluminium Macbook Pro's or a UniBody (13 inch Macbook or 13 inch/15 inch Macbook Pro) models however over the past 2-3 months more and more white unibody macbook seems to make an appearance. They do look somewhat sleeker the the older white or black Macbook. I prefer them anyway!

But yes, to answer the original question, I do see a lot of new and old Macbook models across the capital.And yes, a new Black Macbook would be well appreciated - white and silver is getting a little samey these days
 
Most of you are young school kids it appears.

Try being in your early 50's and carrying a whitebook to a corporate staff meeting where the conference table is littered with Lenovo's and HP Envy's. That took some getting used to.

Fortunately for my colleagues though, my lowly macbook seems to be the only laptop that can wirelessly transmit to our projector at times. :D (Using Parallels and XP).
 
my first year at uni not many people had MB's, now that i bought a MBP once i returned for the 2nd year everyone has one. makes me feel like i should of bought a different laptop now. i have just bought an iMac which i only know one other person has, hopefully students dont walk in with uni with some iMac next week... or ill get mad.

yesterday i was convinced one day i will buy a MBA, but once i felt it i thought it wasnt for me.
 
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