I've always been wanting a Macbook ever since it came out. The reasons why I never bought one till now was because:
- yellow discoloration
- cracking
- overheat
- Core Duo before when I wanted it in Sept 06
- I thought battery life sucks because it's not extended
- Got a Dell and nobody willing to buy it till now
Now that they've fixed the yellow discoloration, cracking and overheat, and Macbook Air imo is overpriced for my needs, I decided to pull the trigger and bought a brand new 2.2GHz Macbook the evening of the Macworld keynote
Wow! I never knew they've improved the Macbook so much for the past 1.5 years. My temps are between 26 (during startup), to 42 (idle with minor surfing) to 72 (heavy duty, highest I've seen). Also, it's been well known that all Core 2 Duo processors have the high pitch whine noise, and I do hear that on my Macbook. But it's A LOT quieter than my Dell and I think it's because there isn't as much ventilation openings as my Dell before. I can only hear it if I put my ear right beside the USB ports and it's still very tinny. Otherwise, I can only hear the fan noise even during 3am in my bed. Props to Apple!
Quality-wise, I must say Dell is a piece of crap. I always thought Dell is good, but I was wrong. My 9 cell (extended battery) lasted only 4.5 hours max on XP, and 3.5 on Vista. And it died on me right after my standard 1 year warranty Macbook, on the other hand, can last 10 hours if I don't touch it 5 hours if I surf with medium brightness, and so on. I always thought Macbook battery would only last about 3.5 to 4 hours since it's not extended or 9 cell or whatever you guys call it. Again, that surprised me.
Screen-wise, there is still a bit of uneven backlighting but I see that for almost every LCD panel. One thing that I must say is, I've never seen an Apple product with a dead pixel, whereas both my Dell LCD and laptop had dead pixels that I needed to call them to replace.
Is it perfect? Almost. I'm not sure if I'm being too picky but I find that the keyboard is a bit stiff. Maybe because it's brand new? But the ones at demo in Futureshop or Best Buy feels a lot looser and a lot easier to register my keys, especially when I type at 100 words per minute. With my stiff keyboard, sometimes the keys don't register unless I hit directly at the centre of the keys. I hope that's normal.
Another minor glitch I found is, the iSight camera is not mounted properly in the centre of the black square on every Macbook
Otherwise, everything else is perfect so far for my Macbook, but I know it's gonna get dirty real soon That's why I bought Magic Eraser already
I guess the saying, "you get what you paid for" is really true. Dell is cheaper but the quality is crap. Apple is what I will purchase from now on
Just wanted to share my experience. Thanks for reading!
Oh and I've upgraded my memory to 4GB and it's BLAZING FAST!
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- yellow discoloration
- cracking
- overheat
- Core Duo before when I wanted it in Sept 06
- I thought battery life sucks because it's not extended
- Got a Dell and nobody willing to buy it till now
Now that they've fixed the yellow discoloration, cracking and overheat, and Macbook Air imo is overpriced for my needs, I decided to pull the trigger and bought a brand new 2.2GHz Macbook the evening of the Macworld keynote
Wow! I never knew they've improved the Macbook so much for the past 1.5 years. My temps are between 26 (during startup), to 42 (idle with minor surfing) to 72 (heavy duty, highest I've seen). Also, it's been well known that all Core 2 Duo processors have the high pitch whine noise, and I do hear that on my Macbook. But it's A LOT quieter than my Dell and I think it's because there isn't as much ventilation openings as my Dell before. I can only hear it if I put my ear right beside the USB ports and it's still very tinny. Otherwise, I can only hear the fan noise even during 3am in my bed. Props to Apple!
Quality-wise, I must say Dell is a piece of crap. I always thought Dell is good, but I was wrong. My 9 cell (extended battery) lasted only 4.5 hours max on XP, and 3.5 on Vista. And it died on me right after my standard 1 year warranty
Macbook, on the other hand, can last 10 hours if I don't touch it 5 hours if I surf with medium brightness, and so on. I always thought Macbook battery would only last about 3.5 to 4 hours since it's not extended or 9 cell or whatever you guys call it. Again, that surprised me.Screen-wise, there is still a bit of uneven backlighting but I see that for almost every LCD panel. One thing that I must say is, I've never seen an Apple product with a dead pixel, whereas both my Dell LCD and laptop had dead pixels that I needed to call them to replace.
Is it perfect? Almost. I'm not sure if I'm being too picky but I find that the keyboard is a bit stiff. Maybe because it's brand new? But the ones at demo in Futureshop or Best Buy feels a lot looser and a lot easier to register my keys, especially when I type at 100 words per minute. With my stiff keyboard, sometimes the keys don't register unless I hit directly at the centre of the keys. I hope that's normal.
Another minor glitch I found is, the iSight camera is not mounted properly in the centre of the black square on every Macbook
Otherwise, everything else is perfect so far for my Macbook, but I know it's gonna get dirty real soon
That's why I bought Magic Eraser already I guess the saying, "you get what you paid for" is really true. Dell is cheaper but the quality is crap. Apple is what I will purchase from now on
Just wanted to share my experience. Thanks for reading!
Oh and I've upgraded my memory to 4GB and it's BLAZING FAST!
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