Advantage: Clean and classy looks, Excellent design, MacOS X.
Disadvantage:Â Heats up a lot, Expensive.
First Look:
Apple’s decision to switch Intel’s processors from their own proprietary G4 chips is a, welcome move, considering they save lots of money on RND. However, they had to port whole of their MacOS X to be x86 compatible. This was easier compared to making new chips and also upgrading them on regular basis to keep up the performance. Now, it’s Intel’s job to do the researching and keep the performance-lead. Apple can now concentrate on the outer design and the software from now onwards. MacBook was one of the first few notebooks by Apple utilizing the new Intel Core Duo processor. As we write now, newer notebooks based on Intel Core 2 Duo have already been released. We can expect one of them to touch our testlabs soon.

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