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Apple MacBook Black 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/2GB/250/SD/AP/BT | 
 enlarge | Brand: Apple
Category: CE
Buy New: £845.66
New (20) Used (1) from £845.66
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5236
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.1
Dimensions (in): 17.3 x 17.2 x 5.4
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MPN: MB404B/A
Model: MB404B/A
UPC: 885909218561
EAN: 0885909218561
ASIN: B00153XRZG
Release Date: March 2, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 13.3-inch (diagonal) glossy widescreen TFT display with support for millions of colours - 1280 by 800 (native); 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor - 800MHz frontside bus | | • | 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB; 160GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive; 8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD R DL/DVD RW/CD-RW); Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory | | • | Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector), Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi (based on IEEE 802.11n draft specification), Built-in Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR), Optional external Apple USB Modem | | • | Built-in stereo speakers, Built-in omnidirectional microphone, Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack), Combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack) | | • | iLife 08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand), Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, iWork 08 (30-day trial), Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard; warranty - 1 year. |
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Product Description
MacBook is perfectly designed for your mobile lifestyle with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory, and large hard drive. . Theres also a slew of innovative features, including a built-in iSight camera for video chatting on the go, iLife 08, Front Row, a glossy 13-inch widescreen display, and even dual-display support. The most advanced and affordable Mac notebook ever gives you a blazingly fast mobile architecture in a beautiful design. MacBook keeps you untethered courtesy of built-in Bluetooth a...
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| Customer Reviews:
 Amazing July 18, 2008
J. Burge (England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a good solid notebook. I bought it to take to classes with me, and it works. It is small enough, yet powerful enough to fit all of my needs. It looks beautiful and so does leopard (its operating system). I highly recommend this notebook.
Brilliant. July 8, 2008
A. Brown (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a high quality laptop, with a great operating system.
Any students looking to buy a mac should definitely buy through Apple's own website or one of their official stores, as you can get a pretty good discount (works out at over 50 for the black MacBook).
 Worth every penny but there is room for improvement. June 25, 2008
Mr. G. Bridgeman-clarke (Rayleigh UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I use both Macs and PCs and have done for about 5 years. the reason being that a lot of my programmes only run on a Windows system but I like to edit my photographs on a Mac. However, I do prefer the ease of use of the MacBook and it doesn't have the freeze or blue screen problems of the Window systems. NOW however, I no longer need to use two computers as this MacBook has an Intel chip and Boot Camp so I can partition the hard drive and use both Windows and Mac software alongside each other. Wish I could do it at the same time but no doubt that will come soon.
The MacBook comes with some real impressive pre-loaded software in iLife '08. That includes iTunes, iPhoto, Garageband, iMovie and iDVD. And it has a built in web cam!!!. What a saving if I only had a Pc I would need to pay up to 250 for similar programmes, though of course iTunes is a free upload for both platforms.
This MacBook flies. Its fast compact and even though I got this to replace a much larger 17 inch PowerBook, I can live with the smaller screen in that this is faster computer, has more memory then my old G4 Powerbook and I can transport it easier on my travels - flying and to events. It fits snugly in my LowePro Stealth 650 camera bag.
Downsides? Well they are few, the keyboard is very Sinclair Spectrum like (Remember those?) and it can cost an arm and leg to upgrade memory,
If you are thinking of coming out of the closet, so to speak, and switching to a Mac, you will not be disappointed with this machine. One other thing - buy the black version - it has more power and memory.
fantastic May 31, 2008
Mr. Andrew M. Matthews (London, UK)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
The other reviewer is talking more generally regarding problems that have been had. There are lots of other perfectly happy MacBook users that don't post on the internet as they haven't had issues.
This is my second macbook after the last one was destroyed in a flood.
This model is fast, has plenty of storage and at last Apple are installing a decent amount of RAM.
It's a great size for a laptop and I do bits of Photoshop, Word, Excel and InDesign on this. Very powerful little package and I love the black.
Worth buying.
 Good, but with BIG caveats April 29, 2008
Bardamu
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I really like the Macbook, but it comes with some caveats. First, black is best, but it comes at an exorbitant cost. Also it's not the sturdiest of builds. The matt black has been known to peel off (see apple websites discussion boards). Also a real problem I've found is that the keyboard edges crack; This isn't a rare problem, many people have complained, there's even a Flickr group dedicated to it. Also the other two people I know with macbooks have had these chips. The good thing is, book a meeting with the "Genius" bar at an Apple retail store, they'll replace it there and then if they have keyboards in stock (free, even after a year).
Another worrying aspect have been the crashes, which seem due to overheating or logic board problem. Twice it's crashed then on reboot claims there's no bootable drive (switch off again for a minute, it will reboot okay). I've owned five different apple laptops and four have had major defects (harddrive/combo drive failures in weeks of purchase, logic board failures X2, potentially exploding batteries, defective power lead). Apple produces the best operating system, it's almost worth suffering poorly manufactured laptops. If you buy this, be ready for potential problems and always save everything to external harddrives.
And lastly the biggest caveat... Can you wait till the end of June 2008? It maybe replaced by aluminum macbooks (or at the least another bump in speed).
In the laptops favour, the all the major failures happened either in two weeks of purchase or after three years, so I either got free replacements or I wanted to upgrade anyway... not much of an endorsement... of apple or someone repeatedly buying defective laptops...
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