Apple has updated their MacBook line without so much as a press release:
Apple’s MacBooks yesterday featured:
• 2.0GHz or 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• 667MHz frontside bus
• 1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); two SO-DIMM slots support up to 2GB
• Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory
• 80GB, 120GB, or 160GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive; optional 120GB or 160GB 5400-rpm drive or 200GB 4200-rpm drive
• Weight: 5.1 pounds
Apple’s MacBooks today feature:
• 2.0GHz or 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• 800MHz frontside bus
• 1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
• Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory
• 80GB, 120GB, or 160GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive; optional 120GB, 160GB, or 250GB 5400-rpm drive
• Weight: 5.0 pounds
Apple MacBooks are available in three basic configurations that users can customize:
13-inch White
• 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 1GB memory
• 80GB hard drive
• Combo drive
– $1,099
13-inch White
• 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 1GB memory
• 120GB hard drive
• Double-layer SuperDrive
– $1,299
13-inch Black
• 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 1GB memory
• 160GB hard drive
• Double-layer SuperDrive
– $1,499
See the updated MacBooks here.
MacDailyNews Note: Also of note are Apple’s stealth additions of customization options to their MacBook Pro line which now include a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo for US$250 and the 250GB 5400-rpm drive for $150.
I was sitting in my college Computer lab where they have 12 iMacs.
6 — 17 inch G5 iMacs and 6 New 20 inch Aluminum iMacs.
The Display on the new iMacs STUNNING. The Brightness and the Colors. BUT!!!! There is lots of Glare. All the florescent lights in the room glare to the screen.
Then going back to the Matte G5 iMacs, they are so much more easier on the eyes.
APPLE should offer the iMacs Matte or without the Glass. Wasn’t there a condensation issue because of the glass?
See apple, TAKE OFF THE GLASS. if it’s a matte screen already, how does the glass make this a more recyclable product.
Does anyone here even understand the concept of Purchasing Power Parity? And, doesn’t Canada have VAT included in the price?
i bought a macbook two days ago and now they come out with a new one??? and i have to pay $120 to switch it out? BS!!!!
It took me two days to reload all my files and crap!!!
Is the new macbook worth spending another $120 and two days to reload my files again? Are they that much better? Graphics card? I don’t play too many games. just tiger woods.
Forgive my ignorance but I thought the 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo processors were Santa Rosa. If the Santa Rosa processors are new, are they much faster than the 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo that was in the Macbooks before?
“And, doesn’t Canada have VAT included in the price?”
The ignorance of the rest of the world about Canada sometimes astounds me.
Canada does not have VAT. Canadian sales tax is not included in the price. There is a federally-based sales tax which applies to all provinces which is 6%, and a provincially-based sales tax which obviously varies depending on province. In my province (BC) they total to 13% (6% PST, 7&#xGS;T).
So the $200 markup on the MacBooks is purely artificial. Purchasing Power Parity does not in itself account for the Canadian dollar increasing substantially in value compared to the US dollar, yet the prices of imported US Goods remaining the same in Canada.
“i bought a macbook two days ago and now they come out with a new one??? and i have to pay $120 to switch it out? BS!!!!”
It’s nice how they did this sneakily two days after the launch of Leopard, presumably when they had used the bump in hardware sales from the Leopard release to flush through stock of the old ones.
The knew this was coming. They should have just made the announcement concurrent with Leopard and sold the old ones in Canada instead.
“Is the new MacBook worth spending another $120 and two days to reload my files again? Are they that much better? Graphics card?…”
Yes! Santa Rosa could add another two years or so of life to your laptop, because of the extra RAM capacity and better graphics.
Is the extra $120 dollars just the difference in price? Or is it the restocking fee? I’ve read in some online forums that Apple will often take a computer back within 14 days of purchase WITHOUT charging a restocking fee if your purpose is to upgrade to a newer and/or more expensive model. If you purchased directly from Apple and you have more than one Apple Store in your area, call several until you get a firm commitment from one of them to do an exchange WITHOUT restocking fee. Write down the name of the associate who agrees to the exchange and find out when he/she is working so that you can deal directly with him/her. WARNING: Be sure to reinstall OS X on your original MacBook before returning it — using the Disk Utility on the installation DVD to “write zeros” to your hard drive. Otherwise, your data will still remain on the computer.
Let me finish by saying that I have been disappointed in Apple’s “dirty” business tactics lately — iPhone pricing, 802.11N activation fee, etc. Too much like Microsoft for my taste…
“Too much like Microsoft for my taste…”
Don’t forget, Microsoft copies everything from Apple. One of Steve’s first acts in business was to cheat is friend and business partner Woz out of half of a $5000 (1975 dollars) bonus.
If that’s what Steve will do to a friend, be under no misapprehension what he will do to you as a customer.
@ Steve Jobs All Round Good Guy,
Woz seems like a nice guy, at it is a shame that Jobs continually treats him like $j!#. Woz is reported to have given a lot of his Apple stock to Apple employees as a show of gratitude. Jobs kept his shares to himself. Woz asked Jobs to write the forward to his autobiography, but Jobs refused for reasons still unknown. At least Woz is still making money from Apple thanks to his remaining shares in the company.
I do not think that it is fair to say that Apple (Jobs) taught Microsoft (Gates and Ballmer) how to act badly. Microsoft knows how to do that quite well without any lessons from Apple.
“Is the extra $120 dollars just the difference in price? Or is it the restocking fee?”
It’s what’s becoming standard for Apple now, an early adopter fee. At least with the iPhone they waited months to geld the early users. Here its days.
@ Ben Tover,
I don’t understand your answer. I just checked pricing at the USA Apple Store moments ago, and the November 2007 MacBooks are still being sold for 1099USD, 1299USD, and 1499USD. The previous revision to the MacBook line was in May 2007. Were the May 2007 MacBooks being sold for less money than the November 2007 MacBooks are being sold?
Listen if your going to Add Features. You might as well get the wording right!
As another Canadian, I too am disgusted with the lack of pricing parity by Apple and other US companies, here in Canada. $200 markup on a $1000 product is not insignificant. I, personally, will not be purchasing a new Macbook Pro until this issue is rectified.
And, to reiterate an earlier poster’s comments: There is no VAT in Canada. So, to those who keep parroting this excuse in blind ignorance, stop. You are incorrect and have mistaken Canada for a country halfway across the world. I’ll save the bandwidth here and tell you to Google it.
–mAc
“Were the May 2007 MacBooks being sold for less money than the November 2007 MacBooks are being sold?”
The price difference is the restocking fee. It’s what you’ll pay to take the shiny new MacBook you brought on the day Leopard launched back and get it swapped for the new model which started shipping 2 days later.
yea, it was the restocking fee. No luck exchanging it for an upgraded model. I had the 1299 one and i wasn’t spending 1499 to get the black one with basically the same specs.
everything is cool with it except I STILL CAN’T PLAY TIGER WOODS!!!!! bigger graphics card, more ram capability… what i actually need is a patch from EA for the GMA X3100 so i can play that bad boy.