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Apple discontinues the white MacBook
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop
Apple on Wednesday confirmed that it has discontinued the entry-level, white polycarbonate MacBook, making the new, $999 11-inch Macbook Air the least expensive in the family.
The white MacBook has already been removed from Apple's product page, but if you're feeling nostalgic for the white plastic chassis, you can always buy a refurbished, year-old white MacBook for $849.
Although Apple has been using polycarbonate plastic—marketed as a tough plastic used in bulletproof glass—since the dawn of the iBook, Apple dyed it white for its first MacBook in 2006. But with the launch of the MacBook Pros in an aluminum unibody, rumors surfaced that Apple would discontinue the white polycarbonate MacBook, especially when the 13-inch model went Pro.
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Apple updates $999 white MacBook to match unibody version, almost
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Hot Deals, PC / Laptop
We always enjoy being pleasantly surprised by Apple, and it appears that today they’ve quietly updated their low-end Macbook so that it’s more in line with what you’d get from the aluminum unibody version. It still runs for $999, which is a great price for a brand new Apple portable, but now you get the newer 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 1066 MHz front side bus, 2 GB DDR2 RAM, Bluetooth 2.1, and the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chipset that is all the rage. Now, granted, the RAM is slower than what you’d find in the more expensive unibody Macbook, and you also don’t get those wonderful aluminum bragging rights, but you do get a FireWire port—and when it’s all said and done, isn’t that what it’s all about?
If you missed our unibody Macbook and Macbook Pro comparison video, you can check it out after the break.
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| Macbook product page via engadget
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