No, you're right for sure. The black color absolutely does NOT warrant the price premium (much less the 40GB more HDD space), but my personal preference is not for a white colored computer. I know, I know. I need to leave my ego at the door and just save some good coin and just get a white one. But, at the same time, the black color MB is really growing on me and I hope that it would be overall easier to sell in 3 years versus another notebook.
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No, you're right for sure. The black color absolutely does NOT warrant the price premium (much less the 40GB more HDD space), but my personal preference is not for a white colored computer. I know, I know. I need to leave my ego at the door and just save some good coin and just get a white one. But, at the same time, the black color MB is really growing on me and I hope that it would be overall easier to sell in 3 years versus another notebook.
OK! I picked up a new Black MacBook from the Apple store in Oak Brook, IL. this past Thursday. Shweet!!!
First impressions were excellent. The gentleman that helped me out at that Apple store let me open up the box in front of him (he was even curteous enough to give me the cutting honors!) and make sure it powered on with no problems. He then let me go ahead and enter in my first-boot information and settings. Upon entering OSX for the first time on the MB everything looked great! No dead pixels, no weird backlighting, nothing bad at all.
Upon further use...you guessed it!!?? Everything is still working great and I have fallen in love with yet another one of my Apple purchases throughout the years.
(My first Mac ever was a 667Mhz DVI TiBook that got me through me undergraduate days and I still sorta wish I had to this day.) But this BlackBook is absolutely perfect for what I need it to do.
When I got home that day I first installed my 2 - 1GB G.Skill memory modules that I received the day before from NewEgg. Those have been performing flawlessly and were tested for errors. All is good there! I then plugged in the BlackBook and let the machine charge and stay charged for ~3 hours before I unplugged the machine and began to let the machine drain down to zero power and sleep mode.
After sucessfully calibrating the battery and checking to see what Apple had put on the machine, I installed Adobe CS3, Flip4Mac, & FireFox. I also really had to install one of the first Mac games that I have ever played (coming from being a long time PC gamer and still am), Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. While the game runs OK with most of the settings at high, I can't play at any resolution higher than 1024x768, but no big deal. I did NOT purchase this Blackbook with the intentions of it being a stellar gaming rig, but rather, a machine that would allow me to run Dreamweaver, PS, iTunes, and do my web and email surfing at the same time. With those options, this notebook does NOT disappoint!
Keyboard has taken a little getting used to, but I have pretty much forgotten what my old 12" G4 PB's keyboard fealt like at this point. Screen res is definitely better than my 12" PB but on par with my older TiBook. The big difference is that my BlackBook's screen is considerably brighter, so much so that I keep the brightness turned down 2-4 notches from high.
Boot up time is considerably faster than any of my past Mac's, obviously owing this feat to the C2D chip inside. I have also installed VMWare beta 4.1 and subsequently Ubuntu 7.04 and Windows XP Professional. All those have been running great in the virtual world. I will also install BootCamp beta 1.3 tonight and begin to screw with Vista on the machine to see how it handles.
Everything is running great! Machine does not get very loud unless I begin to tax the hell out of the CPU with many CPU intensive apps open. Airport connection to my D-Link DGL-4300 router has been great! I have the BlackBook connected to the router using WPA2 and have had no real issues there.
Let's see...What else. Superdrive is a blast! Haven't had any coasters yet and I have burnt several DVD's and CD's thus far. Battery time has been great, though I really haven't had to take the MacBook where I couldn't just as easily plug it in when I was doing some serious computing action.
My ONLY gripe would be the fingerprints and oil slicks around the palm rests and keys, but so far I have just told myself to get over it and enjoy the fact that I have a kick-ass machine that has had no serious, or even moderate issues thus far! (knocks on wood!)
Anyone have any questions, just give a hollar!
First impressions were excellent. The gentleman that helped me out at that Apple store let me open up the box in front of him (he was even curteous enough to give me the cutting honors!) and make sure it powered on with no problems. He then let me go ahead and enter in my first-boot information and settings. Upon entering OSX for the first time on the MB everything looked great! No dead pixels, no weird backlighting, nothing bad at all.
Upon further use...you guessed it!!?? Everything is still working great and I have fallen in love with yet another one of my Apple purchases throughout the years.
(My first Mac ever was a 667Mhz DVI TiBook that got me through me undergraduate days and I still sorta wish I had to this day.) But this BlackBook is absolutely perfect for what I need it to do.
When I got home that day I first installed my 2 - 1GB G.Skill memory modules that I received the day before from NewEgg. Those have been performing flawlessly and were tested for errors. All is good there! I then plugged in the BlackBook and let the machine charge and stay charged for ~3 hours before I unplugged the machine and began to let the machine drain down to zero power and sleep mode.
After sucessfully calibrating the battery and checking to see what Apple had put on the machine, I installed Adobe CS3, Flip4Mac, & FireFox. I also really had to install one of the first Mac games that I have ever played (coming from being a long time PC gamer and still am), Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. While the game runs OK with most of the settings at high, I can't play at any resolution higher than 1024x768, but no big deal. I did NOT purchase this Blackbook with the intentions of it being a stellar gaming rig, but rather, a machine that would allow me to run Dreamweaver, PS, iTunes, and do my web and email surfing at the same time. With those options, this notebook does NOT disappoint!
Keyboard has taken a little getting used to, but I have pretty much forgotten what my old 12" G4 PB's keyboard fealt like at this point. Screen res is definitely better than my 12" PB but on par with my older TiBook. The big difference is that my BlackBook's screen is considerably brighter, so much so that I keep the brightness turned down 2-4 notches from high.
Boot up time is considerably faster than any of my past Mac's, obviously owing this feat to the C2D chip inside. I have also installed VMWare beta 4.1 and subsequently Ubuntu 7.04 and Windows XP Professional. All those have been running great in the virtual world. I will also install BootCamp beta 1.3 tonight and begin to screw with Vista on the machine to see how it handles.
Everything is running great! Machine does not get very loud unless I begin to tax the hell out of the CPU with many CPU intensive apps open. Airport connection to my D-Link DGL-4300 router has been great! I have the BlackBook connected to the router using WPA2 and have had no real issues there.
Let's see...What else. Superdrive is a blast! Haven't had any coasters yet and I have burnt several DVD's and CD's thus far. Battery time has been great, though I really haven't had to take the MacBook where I couldn't just as easily plug it in when I was doing some serious computing action.
My ONLY gripe would be the fingerprints and oil slicks around the palm rests and keys, but so far I have just told myself to get over it and enjoy the fact that I have a kick-ass machine that has had no serious, or even moderate issues thus far! (knocks on wood!)
Anyone have any questions, just give a hollar!
Awww! It's quotes like these that make my poor wittle macbook pro self concious of itself!
He's barely a lb heavier then a macbook, and there is no "lugging!" there is only happy easy toting going around here! Any decent size bag fits it perfectly ::hugs mbp::
thats whole essay
just got me more excited on getting my macbook...i cant wait....