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Apple pone el MacBook blanco a la altura de los nuevos de aluminio
Gizmología —
Apple, por ahora solo en EE.UU. (en España a la hora de publicar este post no hay cambios) actualiza su MacBook blanco para ponerlo a la altura del MacBook de cuerpo de aluminio. Manteniendo el mismo precio que antes, $999 se presenta una versión prácticamente idéntica pero de un material menos resistente y más pesado.
Incluye un procesador Core 2 Duo de 2GHz, 2GB de memoria RAM, un disco duro de 120GB (la versión de aluminio incluye uno de 160GB) y una tarjeta gráfica nVIDIA GeForce 9400M.
Pero por $300 más ...
Apple white MacBook internals updated to match new aluminum MacBook
Obsessable News Feed —
... that were introduced back in October of last year. The processor, graphics card, and all the key items, raw-processing power-wise, that used to differentiate the two computers from one another are now in sync, so the $300 extra one would pay for the aluminum unibody MacBook is basically paying for the cosmetic and design differences and an extra 40GBs worth of hard drive space. If you're looking for a powerful laptop at a reduced price, the old design white 13-inch MacBook just became a much more interesting bargain at $999. ...
Apple upgrades the white Macbooks to Unibody standards
CrunchGear —
... The plastic models do break. While I have had great luck with the two G4 iBooks (plastic) I own and use daily, Mrs. Doug’s MacBook has had its frame replaced twice. It might be a worth while investment to buy the aluminum unibody if this notebook is going to leave the house. On the other hand, $300 can buy a hell of a photo printer or external LCD monitor if the notebook is going to be a desktop ‘replacement.’ Your call, but I think I would spend the extra $300 and get the new one. ...
White MacBook Gets NVIDIA, Better Specs [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... They didn’t cry it from the mountain, but Apple this week did indeed update some hardware. Specifically, the 13-inch white MacBook, a holdover from previous models, now ships with the same NVIDIA GeForce 9400M of its bigger, aluminum unibody siblings. Not only that, but it also gets a processor bump up to the 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 1,066MHz frontside bus that’s found in the next model up, and a boost in the base ram up to 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 instead of just one. ...
$999 MacBook hardware updated to near-unibody specs
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... The CPU speed still remains at 2.0 GHz, and there's no backlit keyboard option, but the upgrades make an already attractive MacBook even more delicious. You can check out the new specs and order the MacBook at your local Apple Store or by clicking here. The online Apple Store is showing availability in the next 4 to 6 days. ...
Apple's White MacBook Gets a Boost
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... very similar to the low-end aluminum MacBook ($1,300), there still remain a few differences. The white MacBook's RAM is DDR2 — slower than the DDR3 memory in its aluminum siblings.
Also, the white MacBook ships with a 120GB hard drive, while the low-end aluminum MacBook ships with a 160GB hard drive.
Nonetheless, those differences are very minor, so this is a great upgrade if you're looking to save some cash and the new aluminum look doesn't do it for you.
Product Page [Apple via Engadget]
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Apple Upgrades Entry Level MacBook, Now Actually Attractive
Homotron.net —
... than a few Firewire peripherals, but still want the new NVIDIA chips, Apple has answered your prayers.
Don't forget that if you're a student or education employee, you get a $50 discount, bumping the price down to $949.
It's rumoured that the bumps are to make the white MacBook better able to take advantage of the new features of Snow Leopard, namely OpenCL, which will enable Macs to use the GPU for processing data other than merely graphics.
Product Page [Apple]
and one more thing: apple upgrades white macbook specs
technabob —
iSneaky: The White 13-inch MacBook has been upgraded, but for some unfathomable reason Apple’s not flaunting it. It absolutely definitely surely can’t be because of the newer, more expensive Aluminum MacBooks.
The most obvious upgrade is the GPU, which is now an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (256MB), quite a substantial leap from the Intel GMA X3100 (144MB). The standard RAM’s also been upped to 2GB from 1GB, although it’s still DDR2 and not DDR3 like the ones that the Aluminum MacBooks have. If you check out the MacBook’s Wikipedia page, you’ll also see that the Core 2 Duo chip has been updated with a ...
Microsoft Does the Math on the “Apple Tax.” Badly.
Technologizer —
... Pretty compelling. Except that the $999 MacBook doesn’t come with 1GB of RAM. (It has 2GB.) It doesn’t have a 120GB hard disk. (It’s 160GB.) And it doesn’t have X3100 graphics. (It has the considerably more potent NVIDIA GeForce 9400M.) Here, look for yourself. The analysis is based on the old MacBook configuration that Apple refreshed ...
Microsoft Advertizes Blu-Ray As an Advantage of Windows-Based Personal Computers
X-bit labs —
... with son are looking forward a notebook capable of handling video games for under $1500. At the end, the alleged end-users pick up Sony Vaio FW-series laptop with 16.4 screen, Intel Core 2 Duo processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 discrete graphics processor, a Blu-ray disc drive and so on. The commercial emphasizes Blu-ray optical drive inside the machine, a device that is not available inside a single Apple Mac computer. The only Apple Macbook systems available below $1500 are Macbook 13 with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz chip, Nvidia core-logic with integrated GeForce 9400M ...
Apple Could Cut Mac Prices In Low-Cost PC Boom
TechWeb —
With consumers mostly buying low-cost PCs in the current recession, Apple could cut the prices of some of its most popular Macs. The computer maker in the coming months is expected to release lower-priced models of the 13-inch MacBook and iMac, AppleInsider reported Friday. The MacBook currently sells for as low as $999 and the iMac starts at $1,199. The price would make sense given the pressure Apple is feeling the pressure from being a premium PC vendor at a time when consumers are looking to spend less on just about everything. Overall sales of Mac computers in the first quarter of the year fell 3% from a year ago, the ...
Apple Could Cut Mac Prices In Low-Cost PC Boom
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
With consumers mostly buying low-cost PCs in the current recession, Apple could cut the prices of some of its most popular Macs. The computer maker in the coming months is expected to release lower-priced models of the 13-inch MacBook and iMac, AppleInsider reported Friday. The MacBook currently sells for as low as $999 and the iMac starts at $1,199. The price would make sense given the pressure Apple is feeling the pressure from being a premium PC vendor at a time when consumers are looking to spend less on just about everything. Overall sales of Mac computers in the first quarter of the year fell 3% from a year ago, the ...
Would you pay $849 for a new MacBook?
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... A report last week that Apple (AAPL) is preparing to slash prices on its entry level MacBook and iMac models has triggered a flurry of speculation about what the new price points might be.
According to AppleInsider’s Kasper Jade, Apple sees the cuts — which could come in the next month or two — as an “interim solution” to the growing popularity of netbooks, those sub-compact laptops that Steve Jobs once dismissed as “a piece of junk” but which are flying off the shelves at $299 to ...
Shhhh, The White MacBook Just Got a Little Cooler
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
macbook If you're in the market for a MacBook, but you hate the shiny metal glory of the new machines, there is always the old standby. The white 13-inch MacBook is still around to remind you of a simpler time before unibody construction. Well old-school MacBook lover you're in luck. Apple quietly bumped up the processor speed of the MacBook from 2 GHz to 2.13GHz. The onboard DDR memory also got a bump from 667MHz to 800MHz. Apple still prices the white 13-inch MacBook at $999 ...
Apple updates entry-level MacBook
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Portables, MacBookApple announced an update to the entry-level MacBook computer today. This is the only true "MacBook" now that the rest of the models have been promoted to the MacBook Pro.
As of today, $999 will get you a MacBook with faster RAM (2x1GB SO-DIMM of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, up from DDR2), a slightly faster processor (2.26GHz, up from 2.13Ghz), and a significantly larger hard drive (250GB, up from 160GB).
But those technical specs are just the beginning. There's a new built-in battery which Apple claims will take 7 hours per charge. This follows the trend of having batteries ...
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