Walt Mossberg's take on the newly-upgraded MacBooks (from WSJ)

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Walt Mossberg (from The Wall Street Journal) provided his take on the newly-upgraded MacBooks; he definitively asserts the new-line to be a 'terrific choice for consumers and students, if you can handle the $1299 price'.

Once again, nothing too surprising... a positive review for an Apple product is almost-always expected from Uncle Walt.

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Apple's MacBook laptop, the company's low-end portable computer aimed at average consumers, isn't just any old product. It's the best-selling Macintosh in history, at a time when Mac sales are growing much faster than sales of PCs in the U.S. overall. And, according to the sales-research organization NPD Group, the midrange model of the MacBook has been the single best-selling laptop of any brand in U.S. retail stores for the past five months.

So, when Apple completely revamped the design of the MacBook last week, it was a big deal, not only for Mac die-hards, but for anyone shopping for an everyday laptop.

I've been testing the base model of the new MacBook for the past five days, and I like it a lot, despite a few downsides. I found this new MacBook to be speedy, solid, innovative, and comfortable to use, with very good battery life.