Anything but the grey aluminum.So ugly!
Bring the Blackbook back!
Yes, those grease-stained Blackbooks sure looked classy....
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Yes, those grease-stained Blackbooks sure looked classy....
It has absolutely zero to do with your hands. It's the ridges on the display bezel being pulled into the plastic by the magnets. Your wrists will pull on it once it starts and expand the cracks, but it's started by the flaw in the design (which Apple acknowledges and will fix even out of warranty).
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Yup!
Either wipe off or careful use of something like iKlear, works very well. Plus the other laptops are just as greasy, though they hide it better.
What made me go with the black MacBook was the sight of an orange/yellow white one... yuck!
Either wipe off or careful use of something like iKlear, works very well. Plus the other laptops are just as greasy, though they hide it better.
What made me go with the black MacBook was the sight of an orange/yellow white one... yuck!
Apple got rid of Firewire from the Aluminum MacBook, but changed their mind with the 13" MBP. That also happened a few years ago, they took out FW800 from a MBP and people were outraged so they put it back.I highly doubt that would happen. They got rid of it, so I don't think they would just change their mind
OMG GUYS spelled incorrectly.
If that drop fw from another mac, people are going to be pist once again. Hell, I would be. I bougth my 15" for screen size and fw.
If they eliminate it from the base model to try to "make" people up grade to mbp's, why not drop it from the mini as well?
That is just dumb. Actually it is stupid.
We do not need collector's edition in plastic to go along with the one in metal.
If they eliminate it from the base model to try to "make" people up grade to mbp's, why not drop it from the mini as well?
That is just dumb. Actually it is stupid.
We do not need collector's edition in plastic to go along with the one in metal.
No DVD drives please
I really hope you are correct. I hope they eliminate the DVD drive, superdrive, combo drive - whatever you want to call it.
I think this instruction for sharing a CD / DVD drive from another machine is simple enough:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1777
Also, if the external drive for $100 is reasonable
When it comes to media sharing, those flash drives are in excess of DVD capacity and cost about $10 for 4GB or $27 dollars for 16GB USB flash drives.
To be fair I couldn't function easily without my Superdrive on my iMac but that is an entirely different target than the entry level laptop.
No DVD, slightly bigger battery, Please
I really hope you are correct. I hope they eliminate the DVD drive, superdrive, combo drive - whatever you want to call it.
I think this instruction for sharing a CD / DVD drive from another machine is simple enough:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1777
Also, if the external drive for $100 is reasonable
When it comes to media sharing, those flash drives are in excess of DVD capacity and cost about $10 for 4GB or $27 dollars for 16GB USB flash drives.
To be fair I couldn't function easily without my Superdrive on my iMac but that is an entirely different target than the entry level laptop.
No DVD, slightly bigger battery, Please
If they removed firewire from the consumer notebook I dont think people would mind. I have it in my MBP and have never used it and never will. I think the new macbook will be an entertainment machine with dual hard drives and a bigger battery and high def display.
They did, and there was a thread of many thousand angry posts! So easy to forget, isn't it?
You could of course try washing your hands!
I don't own a Blackbook. But I remember reading the reviews where people ommented that you got greasy fingerprints by simply picking the machine up. And no, washing your hands doesn't help, unless you want to go Monk on it, and wash your hands every 10 minutes or so.
I really hope you are correct. I hope they eliminate the DVD drive, superdrive, combo drive - whatever you want to call it.
I think this instruction for sharing a CD / DVD drive from another machine is simple enough:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1777
Also, if the external drive for $100 is reasonable
When it comes to media sharing, those flash drives are in excess of DVD capacity and cost about $10 for 4GB or $27 dollars for 16GB USB flash drives.
To be fair I couldn't function easily without my Superdrive on my iMac but that is an entirely different target than the entry level laptop.
No DVD, slightly bigger battery, Please
I totally agree with you. I can't tell you the last time I burned a dvd/cd. Actually the only time I do it is when someone is stuck in the past and they want a cd/dvd for some reason. I cringe on the inside for some reason. Maybe it is because I have no idea where I put the blank discs because they haven't been used in ages?
If this were the case though, I would have thought that snow leopard would have been released on a flash drive instead of a dvd.
I am all for snatching that HUGE waste off space out of there.
If they're going to bring it to $799 ($899 at a push) then it's worth it. But if they're leaving it at $999, then they might as well scrap it and drop the MacBook Pro to $999.
Hardly anyone buys the MacBook now anyway, it's just to get people into the store. They then see for an extra $200 they can get an infinitely superior MacBook Pro, and walk out spending an extra $200. The $999 MacBook is just a teaser.
Hardly anyone buys the MacBook now anyway, it's just to get people into the store. They then see for an extra $200 they can get an infinitely superior MacBook Pro, and walk out spending an extra $200. The $999 MacBook is just a teaser.
There's actually a good amount of sales for the MacBook; there's a psychological barrier at the $999 price point; the MBP may be a great deal for $200 more but some people aren't willing to cross into the 4-digit territory.
