Apple on Tuesday unveil its much - anticipatedMacBook , the companionship ’s replacement for the iBook and the 12 - inch PowerBook . Featuring the Intel Core Duo processor and a newfangled 13 - in calendered widescreen presentation , Apple say the MacBook is up to five times as tight as the iBook it replaces and four times faster than the 12 - in PowerBook .
“ We have now discharge our portable transition and we ’re unbelievably activated about the new MacBook , ” Philip Schiller , Apple ’s senior frailty chairman of Worldwide Product Marketing , told Macworld . “ The core duet provides an incredible baron boost to the MacBook that customers are going to love . ”
The new MacBook is available in three configurations that stray in Leontyne Price from $ 1,099 to $ 1,499 . Apple is offering a 1.83GHz and 2.0GHz MacBook in a newly designed white enclosure and a 2.0GHz MacBook in a new calamitous enclosure . The MacBook model are already shipping;Macworldhas a first spirit at the raw Apple laptop computer .
“ Most exciting to a lot of our customers will be the special model we made with a black finish , ” said Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller . “ The black is extra special — we project this for our customer follow from the PowerBook and iBook . ”
The MacBook also comes with a 13 - column inch glossy widescreen display , which is 79 pct brighter than the iBook and the 12 - inch PowerBook , allot to Apple . At a resolution of 1280 x 800 , the MacBook video display provides 30 percentage more viewing area than the iBook and the 12 - in PowerBook .
calendered display have been usable in notebook from other manufacturers for some time , but this is the first Apple notebook to include it as a feature . According to Apple , with near reason .
“ multitude have done glossy displays in the past times , but it is only now that the quality is at a level that we are happy to put in our product , ” say Schiller . “ We lead it out because the color interchange just was n’t acceptable to us . ”
While not on the MacBook Pros by nonremittal , the glossy display is available to those client as a free option . “ Our Pro users are used to the anti - glare display on the MacBook Pro and we did n’t want to switch that on them , ” said Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller .
The MacBook comes with many of the same features as the MacBook Pro including a built - in iSight video tv camera , Apple ’s MagSafe Power Adapter , Front Row , Apple Remote , DVI with dual display support ( up to 23 - inch ) , optical digital audio input and output , Gigabit Ethernet , Sudden Motion Sensor and a Scrolling TrackPad .
The outlet of the MacBook prove a slightly different portable scheme for Apple . The PowerBook and iBook products had very unclouded and distinct line that separate the notebooks in feature and size . The unexampled MacBook and MacBook Pros share many more feature of speech and feel like one Cartesian product production line .
“ Nobody should feel like they have to step down when you buy a MacBook , ” said Schiller . “ You do n’t craft - off much in feature between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro . ”
The MacBook will also include other features like progress - in AirPort Extreme wireless networking , Bluetooth 2.0+EDR , two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 porthole , a expansion slot - freight Combo ( DVD - ROM / candela - RW ) on the low - destruction and a slot - load SuperDrive ( DVD±RW / CD - RW ) on the high - end .
“ The iBook was always a big seller for us , so it was important to come out with a MacBook that muck up it off , ” order Schiller .
