“Apple has without fanfare updated the white plastic MacBook to use NVIDIA’s 9400M platform,” Electronista reports.
“The upgrade gives the least expensive portable the same graphics performance as the aluminum model and upgrades the processor to the same 2GHz Core 2 Duo and 1,066MHz system bus as the mid-range version,” Electronista reports. “It also doubles the amount of minimum built-in memory to 2GB.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: The $999 white MacBook’s specs now include:
• 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3MB shared L2 cache
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of shared DDR2 SDRAM
• 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM – 2x1GB (base) – 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM – 2x2GB [Add $150]
• 120GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm (base) – 160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm [Add $50.00], 250GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm [Add $150.00], 320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm [Add $250.00]
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• 13.3-inch (viewable) glossy widescreen, 1280 x 800 pixels
• Built-in iSight camera
• Mini-DVI output with support for DVI and VGA (requires adapters, sold separately)
• Built-in AirPort Extreme (802.11n)
• Built-in Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit)
• Two USB 2.0 ports
• One FireWire 400 port
• Combined optical digital/audio out, combined optical digital/audio line in
• Built-in microphone and speakers
• Full-size keyboard
• Scrolling trackpad
More info about Apple’s upgraded white 13-inch MacBook here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
