Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Mac Book

Since awhile my gf and me looking for notebook. Both of us having Acer and also HP , and i can said it really sucks... Then we decided to get MacBook because the price is reasonable.

Few years back if we look into Apple industry the price is really .... Peeeuhhh expensive... even u cant get below 4K notebook. But at last the price do drop a bit which we saw MacBook for only RM 3899







I love the black Mac but the price is like 1K Extra, So i think that will be out of budget. So we decide to choose the Mac which is RM 3899
Below is the Spec and overview of MAC


Size and weight



Height:
1.08 inch (2.75 cm)
Width:
12.78 inches (32.5 cm)
Depth:
8.92 inches (22.7 cm)
Weight:
5.0 pounds (2.27 kg)


Connections and expansion




* MagSafe power port
* Gigabit Ethernet port
* Mini-DVI port
* FireWire 400 port (up to 400 Mbps)
* Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
* Audio line in
* Audio line out
* Kensington cable lock slot


Communications

Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking2 (based on IEEE 802.11n draft specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible
802.11n



Built-in Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)



Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)



Audio

* Built-in stereo speakers
* Built-in omnidirectional microphone
* Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)
* Combined optical digital audio output/audio line out (minijack)


Installed software

* Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard (includes Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools)
* iLife ’08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)


Display




13.3-inch (diagonal) glossy widescreen TFT display with support for millions of colors

Supported resolutions:
1280 by 800 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 768, 1024 by 640,
800 by 600, 800 by 500, 720 by 480, and 640 by 480 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio;
1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio;
720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio


Graphics and video support

Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory3

Extended desktop and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 1920 by 1200 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors

Built-in iSight camera



Mini-DVI port


Input



* Built-in full-size keyboard with 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys, including 12 function keys and 4 arrow keys (inverted “T” arrangement)
* Solid-state scrolling trackpad for precise cursor control; supports two-finger scrolling, tap, double-tap, and drag capabilities



Processor and memory

* 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
* 800MHz frontside bus
* 1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM; support up to 4GB




Storage

2.1GHz MacBook

* 120GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive; optional 160GB or 250GB 5400-rpm drive4




* 24x slot-loading Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)

Writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed; writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed; reads CDs at up to 24x speed; reads DVDs at up to 8x speed



Battery and power5



55-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery

60W MagSafe Power Adapter with cable management system




So Basically this is the over view of the system that my gf and me wanted to get. planning to get each of us 1 unit. I heard from a lot of ppl that using Mac and they said 1 hell a great about the notebook and also the software ( OS )

So if any of you using Mac Book of have any knowledge of it please do drop me a comment if this is recommended :)

3 Shoutout:

Anonymous said...

mac rulez.. buy mac
get ilife 08
osx leopard 10.5.X

XD
kc

Anonymous said...

wah, such strong Mac supporter, dat means i buy ady den got problem i find you to compensate la horrr...

OooLala

Jerry Cornelius said...

Yea... we planning to get 2 of those mac book so anything happen we claim from u la hor... Baby Terry