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How common is the white macbook where you live?

i got the late 09 macbook and after a week i got a few light scratches on the edges of the comp. i went back to the apple store and bought the Belkin black case, the case it self is fantastic!! but after a while i noticed, it made my macbook look bigger and feel heavier, so i took the case off and i must say im glad i did.. i realized i need to stop caring about tiny scratches and just enjoy the beauty of it. after all a laptop like this isn't for kids.. besides in 5-10 years its most likely ill get another mac to keep up with technologies perks.
 
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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).
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Haha. I'm definitely way past being a young school kid! It is amazing how many wealthy or privileged school kids there are these days with Macbooks and MBP's, unless of course they bought them themselves.
 
Here in my bedroom, I see a white macbook all the time! No other kind of laptops though. Perhaps I should invite more people over?
 
At my university, about 50-60% of the laptops I see are Macs.

Of those, about 75% are the 13" unibody MBP's.

Most of the rest are either larger MBP's or pre-unibody black or white MacBooks. I even see a 12" PowerBook every once in a while. I rarely ever see the white unibody MacBook. My mother has one, though.

Mine is a pre-unibody white MB.

Also, colored cases are quite common. About 2/3 the Macs I see are naked; the rest are cased.
 
i'm in london ontario.. i have a whitebook (mid 09), but most of the people i go to school with are either in or trying to get into music or graphic design programs, so they've all got pros. in fact i may be the only person i know with a whitebook! not that i'm really proud of it.
 
to be honest I have never seen another mac user.... ever I think.

I have a Pro never seen another pro nor have I ever see a white Macbook.

Everyone has normal Laptops with something called windows 7? lol
 
at my college it seems about 30% have macs. of that 30 i mostly see 13" mbps, then white macbooks, and then 15" mbps.

i actually dont see the point of getting a 13" mbp. i spent less on my macbook and then upgraded my ram and hard drive myself which ended up giving me more power than what a stock 13" mbp would come with and for cheaper.

my next macbook will be a 15" mbp though. really is a nice machine. perfect size imo. still mobile enough but at the same time decent sized. but not too big like a 17"
 
i live in a very small (1500 people) poor town and apart from 2 other family's no one has a mac. and i am the only one i have ever seen with a white one.
 
White Macbook, but the non-unibody types.
Everyone who buys a newer computer, however, generally opts for the Macbook Pro. (silver)
 
I live in Tuscaloosa, AL, home of the University of Alabama, so I see lots of students every week.

From being on campus, to coffee shops and book stores, I see more white MacBooks than any other computer.
In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw a Pro off campus.

I was in Barnes & Noble yesterday and I'm guessing I saw about 7 or 8 MacBooks and only 2 or 3 generic laptops

I have a 2010 MacBook. I went in to the store to buy a Pro, but I ended up with the White one and a plan to install 8GB RAM.
I got the educator discount without any documentation, which was also very nice, so I ended up spending $250 less than I'd planned, and could then afford Apple Care
 
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Here in London, UK i see loads of white Macbooks, mostly the original model however more and more unibody's are making an appearance too... they're great machines, affordable... and a Mac!
 
At my school, so far I've seen mostly macbook pro's (silver/black) and Windows computers. I've seen one non-unibody macbook pro and so far I'm the only one that has a white macbook. :D
 
I posted my observations in this thread two months ago, but recently I asked my daughter (who is taking classes at the local community college) what she sees, and it is almost entirely unibody MacBook Pros and the new Airs. She is using my old White MacBook.
 
On the campus of the University of Montana (Missoula) Mac notebooks are very common. I would guess four out of five are 13" MacBook Pros, with most of the rest being plain jane MacBooks. I have seen a couple 15" Pros, and the 11" Air is starting to show up this semester too, but the vast majority are the 13" Pro followed by the white MacBook.
 
Once in a blue moon you see one here at East Carolina University. The 13" mbp is by far the most popular model followed by the 15" mbp.
 
I see the 13 MBP everywhere. In coffee shops it's about 50/50 White Macbook and MBP
 
Here in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottingham UK I have only ever seen one white macbook...... mine.

Everything else is either Dell, Advent, Acer and other common brands of windows based laptops/netbooks. I work in IT and do repairs on the side, I have only ever had one mac come in for repair and that was a G5 iMac about 4 years ago.
 
I see one everyday... my own, apart from that nearly everything is aluminium (I think its because everyone has switched in the 2009-2010 timeframe, when Aluminium was all that was sold - all I see are unibodies, makes my White MacBook a rarity, which is good in a way - I dont like blending in)
 
They're hardly common at my school. Then again, I only have 1800 students at my University. Altogether I've seen probably less than 10 here. However, MacBook Pro's are extremely common here. At least by Mac standards
 
Very rare, I'm a graphic design student and everybody I know carries a Pro.
I'm basically the only guy with the white MacBook.:cool:
Although I did see a guy with an iBook G4.

Lack of firewire and SD card don't really bother me, yet.
 
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