“Apple Computer Inc.’s latest laptop looks sleek, runs fast and should give makers of Windows-based notebooks considerable cause for concern,” Robert Weston reports for The Associated Press.
“The MacBook, which replaces Apple’s iBook consumer notebooks, is the last of the mobile Macs to make the switch to Intel Corp. chips that have powered Windows PCs for years. With extra software, the newer Macs can run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows as well as Apple’s Mac OS X,” Weston reports. “This could spell trouble for notebook makers who can’t offer the best of both worlds, particularly in light of the MacBook’s starting price of $1,099.”
“Running Windows XP via Apple’s free Boot Camp program, the system is felt as fast as any generic laptop PC,” Weston reports. “Programs designed for the new Macs in OS X are just as zippy.”
“The computer’s integrated graphics system shares the main memory. Though my MacBook ran games and other applications without a hitch, gamers will probably want to buy a system with a dedicated graphics card, like the MacBook Pro,” Weston reports. “Overall, the new MacBook is a well-priced laptop that could fit the needs of most consumers. After all, it comes with the simplicity and security of Mac OS X and has many features still in the works for Microsoft’s next-generation OS, Windows Vista.”
“It also comes with the iLife suite that includes iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie – plus a built-in iSight camera for video conferencing,” Weston reports. “Combine the MacBook’s ability to run Windows at native speed with Apple’s renowned knack for elegant hardware and software, and it’s a formula that should give other PC makers nightmares.”
Full article here.
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Intel’s Core Duo chips HAVE NOT powered PCs for years.
It is almost enough to justify us in being zealots.
“. . . makers of Windows-only notebooks nightmares”
The one where you think you are falling or the one in which you are trying to run away but you can’t get your legs to move?
Or just lots of spiders?
Well, they should.
But they won’t.
They LIKE using trash.
The nightmare where your market share is falling.
Makers of Windows-only notebooks decided for themselves to slow dance with a sweaty Steve Ballmer for eternity. That’s their problem.
They didn’t say Intel Core Duo. They said “Intel Corp. chips.”
I know when you’re reading aloud to yourself Corp. can sound like Core – we’ll forgive you for starting the comments with a stupid post. After all, it’s a little better than “First Post!!!!1!11!”
windows system is addictive when you fall in love with it, you can’t really get out. system itself is very complicated. once you use it for very long time, you will get used to. then it’s really make you to switch to another system. why? windows has curse. it’s so bad.
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I know what it reads, idiot.
They article suggests that they’re switching to the same Intel chips that have been in PCs for years, as if a Pentium 4 chip is the same as a Core Duo.
” we’ll forgive you for starting the comments with a stupid post”
Its odd how the anonymity of the internet turns people into trolls.
MDN: Please push the “Windows-only” computers phrase because it says it all. This could become a great term that pushes Macs.
typhoon:
“MDN: Please push the “Windows-only” computers phrase because it says it all. This could become a great term that pushes Macs.”
That wouldn’t be all that accurate. They only come with Windows, but you could still theoretically install Linux on these systems.
Ah, I finally had my first post deleted. All this time I thought MDN liked me. I was somebody!
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Duper,
“Its odd how the anonymity of the internet turns people into trolls.”
Yeah, it makes ’em ten feet tall and bulletproof as well.
Ampar:
“Makers of Windows-only notebooks decided for themselves to slow dance with a sweaty Steve Ballmer for eternity. That’s their problem.”
– That statement is a bit disingenuous considering their limited number of options.
Jon,
I didn’t think about that. The average user, though, would only use the installed OS, except in the case of a Mac booting Windows, I think. But I don’t like anything to be deceptive. “Window’s-only” may or may not be the best choice. How about, “Non-Mac-Bootable?” ;P
Or, maybe “Tigerless!”
What about “Dashboard-free?” Help me, I’m tapped out.
“limited number of options”
True. Although a few more are entertaining a few Linux distro dance cards in the server area and super-cheap PCs.
Everybody should know that there isnt anything great about apple laptops. PC laptops such as dell,HP, Lenevo, and toshiba are much better than macbooks. PC laptops are actually cheap and powerful with high tech specs and can run any software and this is what makes PC laptops successful. PC laptops are very useful for work and for enjoyment, and they are always used for professional jobs. Macbooks have low power,low tech specs, have a low graphic media card, and are very expensive for no good reason. Not everybody wants to spend a lot of money for a low power macbook. Mac OS X tiger isnt that special because it is pretty much the same as Windows XP, but only with better security. You could still easily get antivirus software for windows to fix the security problem. You can do the same ilife, and iwork features on windows XP so mac os x isnt that good as people say it is.
A nightmare in which there is no Apple Computer and the only operating system on earth is Windows from Micro$oft. Scream!
re: store
Somebody set this kid straight, he’s clueless.
“Mac OS X tiger isnt that special because it is pretty much the same as Windows XP, but only with better security.”
Bafflingly ignorant statement. I don’t know where to begin…
re:MF
If you think that mac os x tiger is better than windows, than how come mac os x tiger isnt as popular as windows. All the schools in my city dont use macs because everybody knows that they are garbage. There is no point of apple competing against windows and PC computers because windows and PC are strong computers and also cheap and are used all over the world which makes them successful. If mac os x is better than windows, than why does everybody still continue to use windows. It is kind of lame of how everybody here critizies windows vista, you guys dont even know the real potential of what windows vista could do.
brook asked: “If mac os x is better than windows, than why does everybody still continue to use windows.”
Cos they’re dickheads, like you!
“If mac os x is better than windows, than why does everybody still continue to use windows.”
Because they are brainwashed into using it. They’ve been using it since the early 80’s. It’s all they know and they’re used to it. It’s come on every PC since the 80’s. They had no real choice. Buy a PC, you get Windows. They are used o dealing with viruses and trojans, spyware, worms, malware and rebooting due to super lousy memory and system resource handling.
It’s what businesses use, most people HAVE to use it at work. Again, they have no choice.
. . . you guys dont even know the real potential of what windows vista could do.
Neither do you, since it hasn’t shipped yet. The liklihood that it ever will grows more remote every day. And because you’re a Windoze drone, you don’t have a clue as to what it can’t and will never do.
I am planning to get a new computer, and some of my friends have either PC or macs. I was thinking of getting a mac, but they seem a little too expensive for me so I might get a PC instead. Could you guys tell me the reasons why it would be better to get a mac instead of a PC. Is there a way to buy macs for a cheap price.
Some of my friends tell me to get a PC because they are more powerful than macs because PC have more gigahertz, ram, memory, and they are also cheap. So I am too sure if I still want to get a mac anymore.
RE: Brook
The reason that “everybody” uses Windows is because of Bill Gates’ mantra of quantity versus quality. Windows is not better just because “everybody” uses it. Bill Gates has wanted dominance from the very beginning and that’s what he achieved.
If you want quality you go for a Mac. If you want half-assed, you get a Windows OS.
All the schools in my city dont use macs because everybody knows that they are garbage.
First: Don’t is a contraction of “do” and “not” and needs the appropriate apostrophe ” ‘ ” which creates don’t.
Second: More and more schools will be adding Macs. Two schools in NYC have already been added to the 15 which arleady changed to Macs. Just because YOUR school doesn’t – notice the contraction – be assured that it just may – sooner than you think.
It is not a secret that XP and Vista have been rip-offs of Mac’s OS and that is probably why Gates is bolting from his own company. He has absolutely no R&D. His company is so jealous of Apple that they try to steal the best ideas. However, instead of improving on it they continue to create second rate software.
windows and PC are strong computers and also cheap and are used all over the world which makes them successful.
PC computers may be strong. So is a PowerBook and MacBook Pro. Cheap? You get what you pay for. However, you failed to consider: the price of a good-quality pc/notebook; the price of antivirus protection; the price of renewing your AV subscription every year; the price for upgrading your AV every year; the price of security suite and the subsequent subscriptions and upgrades; the price of lost productivity (assuming that you have a job and work with Windows and are not just a gamer, as most of the pro-Windows flamers seem to be) due to constant freezes and crashes. &c. For all of that spent money you can get an equally powerful (or more powerful) Mac without all of the other headaches. And, since the new Macs are running Windows, as well, you still get all of your WIndows apps!!
Just because more people use WIndows does not mean that they are more popular. Again, Bill Gates’ greediness for domination has overshadowed his NEED for creating HIGH QUALITY.
You sound just like a typical Wiindows user who is affraid to even try something different for fear of giving up your loyalty. Go to an Apple Store and check out the computers. You’ll be very surprised at the ease of use, the quality of the OS as well as the hardware – form yourself an educated opinion. Not just an opinion that’s based on what your friends think. Some of my friends said the same thing when I got my first Mac a few years ago. However, after side-by-side comparisons and making great pro and con points five of my friends bought Macs right away and we’ve never looked back. However – we still have to use Windows once in a while as a lot of people do.
It is kind of lame of how everybody here critizies windows vista, you guys dont even know the real potential of what windows vista could do.
We DO know that Vista can’t hold up on it’s own so far. Why? No R&D as we have been saying. Also, it’s a rip-off of OS X – and not a good one either. There are links on this site to outside articles comparing the two OSes and they all state the same thing – Windows Vista may not be worth the headache. MS has been saying that they are removing features (from Office 2007, as well) because they aren’t working properly. When has MS ever created an OS that has worked properly? If Windows worked as it should have then you wouldn’t need to buy AV protection, now would you? Have you beta tested Vista yet? DO YOU KNOW what it can and can’t do? Please tell us what you know about OS X versus Vista. I will tell you this: Vista will piss all of you Windows users off because you will have to ask permission to do anything due to the new security features that have been installed. Again, check the links from this site which lead you to outside opinions and not just pro-Mac sites either.
In the end – a Mac will win every time regardless of popular opinion.
Good luck and don’t be so damn angry.
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RE: Car55
Go to Apple’s site and check out their systems. You can configure the computer to suit your needs – add RAM, larger harddrive, etc. just as you can with a Dell or Gateway, et al.
Your friends are wrong – more likely, misinformed – because they have been Windows PC users all of their short lives. However, don’t follow the crowd just because you don’t know what to do. You just may wind up disappointed. You have to form your own educated opinion.
You don’t have to buy directly from Apple either. You can get systems from MacMall as well. Again, it’s all dependent on what you want.
Macs may not be “cheap” but that word is relative. PCs are cheap because they are usually poor quality. See my above post to Brook. Apple considers quality more important than quantity while MS is the other way around.
I use Mac and Windows and when I am on a Windows machine I yearn for my Mac, why? Easier to use, better looking GUI, overall better experience. Everybody here will give you a different reason for why they prefer a Mac versus Windows other than the normal, “Windows just sucks” comment.
PCs are not necessarily more powerful. If you buy a bottom line Dell it won’t be more powerful. However, if you have Dell configure it to your own specs then it will be. Same with any computer. You can call Apple’s sales and tell them what you want and they can do it for you. Of course, just like Dell or Gateway, you will have to pay for your upgrades. However, remember this: in order to get your custom configurations you will have to call Apple (the number is on their site). You can’t get custom configurations from an Apple store.
Good luck and I hope that you make an educated decision and not one based on what your “friends” say.
BKLYN
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RE:BrooklynNYC
I appreciate your comments, but I was thinking that would it be best to wait for Mac OS X leopard and also wait for new apple computers that are going to come out.
car55:
Leopard will be previewed next month so you will be able to find out what the features will be. You can then do the comparison between that and Vista. OS X 10.5 will most likely be available in the spring (Vista’s launch is still uncertain) so you have time to make your decision.
In the meantime get yourself a copy of MacWorld mag and look at the reviews of the new Macs. That will give you an idea of what to expect from the hardware side.
BKLYN