Apple has quietly updated its entry-level white macbook bringing it closer in specs to its unibody cousins. The update may be on behalf of Apple trying to upgrade all of its notebooks before Snow Leopard is unveiled.
Core upgrades
• Processor moved to 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo with 1066 MHz frontside bus from 2.1 GHz Core 2 Duo with 866 MHz bus
• Standard RAM increased to 2 GB (two 1 GB sticks) from 1 GB (two 512 MB sticks)
• Graphics switched to NVIDIA 9400M with 256 MB of shared memory from Intel GMA X3100 with 144 MB of shared memory
• Bluetooth version updated to 2.1 from 2.0.
• 320 GB, 5400-rpm hard drive option added
Engadget speculates that this may be a final push on Apple’s part to make all of the company’s notebooks able to support OpenCL when Snow Leopard is finally released. As you can see from the image above, the notebooks will begin shipping in about 4 to 6 days.
9to5mac points out that the white Macbook, even with the new NVIDIA 9400M chipset, still uses a Mini DVI port (at least according to Apple’s current website). Also, the RAM has been upgraded to 2GB, however it is DDR2, not DDR3 like its unibody macbook cousins.
2 Comments to “Apple Quietly Updates White, Entry-Level Macbook Specs”
This is funny. After some discounts these are like a little over $900. An Apple netbook would need to be like $300 or else it wouldn’t make sense to buy it. I don’t think anything’s going to get cheaper than this bad boy for a long time.
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Assuming you’re talking about the price-gap between an Apple netbook (cheaper) and this Macbook would be a few hundred dollars, your argument seems clearer.
My thing is that I don’t think Apple could make a netbook or tablet for less than $700 or $800, in which case it will stay a very niche device, seeing as how the entry level white macbook is only a couple hundred dollars more.
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