New Macbooks, wrong move Apple...

[petvas]

In the meantime I got my White Macbook and I love it...Performance is much better than the Glassbook 2,0Ghz Model. I don't care about the graphics and games. I have a Playstation 3 for that.
I find the White Macbook to be the perfect companion to my Mac Pro.

 

[Primejimbo]

To the OP you're paying for the Nvidia GPU (will come in handy for Snow Leopard), Aluminium unibody & Glass screen/trackpad.

I personally couldn't stand last gen macbooks with the fingerprint magnet case with sharp edges and terrible screen...but to each his own

...and yes i do think Apple dumping FW was a bad move but at the same time it makes sense as a business decision. Truth is FW lost the battle in terms of mainstream adoption.

My gripe is the fact that Apple didn't add either a 3rd USB port or even a 4-pin FW port but they say there was no more space on the Logic Board. I don't rely on FW, in fact i haven't used it since i owned a 3G iPod so its not really a deal breaker for me but i can see how it would be for others

I agree with you, well said!

 

[hogfaninga]

In the meantime I got my White Macbook and I love it...Performance is much better than the Glassbook 2,0Ghz Model. I don't care about the graphics and games. I have a Playstation 3 for that.
I find the White Macbook to be the perfect companion to my Mac Pro.

I agree with you, well said!

 

[skye12]

In the meantime I got my White Macbook and I love it...Performance is much better than the Glassbook 2,0Ghz Model. I don't care about the graphics and games. I have a Playstation 3 for that.
I find the White Macbook to be the perfect companion to my Mac Pro.

Reflects my thoughts almost exactly. Waiting for next spring/summer and
next revision or so to jump on a new laptop. If I was to buy a new one the
$1599 model with 250 HD, LED screen and backlit keyboard seem awfully
nice to me.

 

[Demosthenes X]

What I don't like about the new laptops:

• Glossy display + Glass= a very expensive mirror
• no Firewire on Macbooks
• the Macbook comes only on 2Ghz and 2,4Ghz. The previous generation used 2,4Ghz for the cheaper model...
• No higher resolution display for the Macbook Pro
• No Matte option. That is ok for the Macbook because it is small and you can get around the reflections but it is just not acceptable for the Macbook Pro. Normally I would buy the Macbook Pro (despite the fact that it is an overkill for me) but not anymore. If Apple offers a Matte Option then I will buy it...

What you should have called this thread is "The new MacBook does not completely fullfull my own, personal needs, ergo I am going to accuse Apple of making a poor business decision based on what I want!".



If you don't like it, don't buy it, and stop whining. Apple's job is not to make a computer 100% customized to you. It's to make a computer that the greatest number of people will want to buy. And in that, they've created a staggeringly good product.

If you want a computer 100% customized to yourself, you have exactly one choice: build it yourself. No manufacturer is going to offer a computer that will be perfect for everyone...