Apple MacBook MC207LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop

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2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
250GB Hard Drive, 8x Double-layer SuperDrive, 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colors
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, up to 7 Hours of Battery Life

Product Description
The MacBook uses a graphics processor that economizes space in a whole new way. A traditional computer logic board contains multiple components: the CPU, two chips that control communication throughout the computer, and the graphics processor. The logic board in the MacBook contains only two components: the CPU and a graphics processor with all of the core logic built into a single chip.Open your MacBook and you’re instantly greeted by glorious full screen brightness. Anything you view, including the glossy widescreen display itself, is a spectacular experience. The LED-backlit display is more power efficient. And it’s mercury- and arsenic-free, so it’s greener than ever.Amazon.com Product Description

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Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, the new MacBook has been updated with a durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch trackpad and Apple’s innovative built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. Measuring just 1.08 inches thin and weighing 4.7 pounds, the sleek new MacBook cuts a slim profile on any desk (or in any backpack or briefcase). And it comes with everything you need for email, calendar, contacts, browsing the Internet, and more–all a part of the pre-installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system.

The redesigned MacBook with 13-inch LED-backlit screen, durable unibody enclosure, and built-in 7-hour battery.

Spacious new glass multi-touch trackpad gives you plenty of room to navigate and supports two-finger multi-touch gestures.

The MacBook’s new seamless, more durable unibody enclosure with rounded contours makes it easy to pick up and slide into and out of your bag. And it’s made of rugged polycarbonate that withstands the rough and tumble of everyday life–at school, at work, or while traveling. Even the bottom of the new MacBook feels different. Covering its entire surface is a nonslip material that keeps your MacBook right where you put it, whether on a desk, table, or airplane tray.

The LED-backlit 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display provides a spectacular viewing experience, helping to make documents, videos, photos, and games look incredibly sharp and detailed. The LED backlighting delivers stunning colors and instant full-screen brightness the moment you open the lid. And its 1280 x 800 pixel resolution offers an outstanding balance of luminous color and easy readability in a perfectly portable size.

It comes pre-loaded with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system–an operating system custom-designed for the advanced technology inside–and it also comes with the iLife ’09 suite of applications, including iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, and iTunes.

Key Specifications

13.3-inch LED-backlit, glossy widescreen display with a widescreen resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels to give you plenty of room to multitask. And the display is greener than ever: power efficient, free of harmful toxins such as mercury, and made of arsenic-free glass.
Fast 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor helps you breeze through everyday tasks such as emailing, web browsing, and working with documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in iWork or Microsoft Office for Mac (both sold separately).
250 GB hard drive (5400 RPM)
2 GB installed RAM (1066 MHz DDR3; supports up to 4 GB)
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor (with 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory) for an outstanding everyday graphics experience
8x slot-loading SuperDrive with double-layer DVD support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Built-in iSight camera for video chatting
Wi-Fi wireless networking (based on 802.11n specification; 802.11a/b/g compatible)
Gigabit Ethernet wired networking (10/100/1000BASE-T)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) for connecting with peripherals such as keyboards, mice and cell phones
Two USB 2.0 ports
Mini DisplayPort video output with optional adapters for DVI and VGA output
Built-in stereo speakers and omnidirectional microphone
Combined optical digital output/headphone output (also includes line-in/microphone jack)
Up to 7 hours of continuous use with 60-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery
Dimensions: 13 x 9.12 x 1.08 inches (WxDxH)
Weight: 4.7 pounds

What’s in the box
MacBook; 60W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug, and power cord; install/restore DVDs; printed and electronic documentation

Limited Warranty And Service
The MacBook comes with 90 days of free telephone support and a one-year limited warranty. Purchase the AppleCare Protection Plan to extend your service and support to three years from your computer’s purchase date. Only the AppleCare Protection Plan provides you with direct telephone support from Apple technical experts and the assurance that repairs will be handled by Apple-authorized technicians using genuine Apple parts.

Key Features

The Longest-Lasting Macbook Battery Ever–Up to 7 Hours

Now take MacBook with you everywhere without worrying about plugging in or even carrying your power adapter. Its built-in lithium-polymer battery lasts up to 7 hours on a single charge, which makes it perfect for long flights, all-day workshops, and marathon study sessions. Thanks to its advanced battery chemistry and charging technology, the MacBook battery can be recharged up to 1000 times–good for about five years of typical usage–and lasts nearly three times the lifespan of typical notebook batteries.

A Comfortable Keyboard Your Fingers Will Love
The MacBook’s keyboard is full size, with keys that are curved to contain your fingers and highly responsive to your touch. Its low-profile design integrates perfectly into the unibody enclosure, so you’ll get a comfortable experience whether you’re typing a quick email or writing a lengthy research report. The keyboard also gives you one-touch access to music and video controls and Mac OS X features such as Dashboard and Exposé.

Spacious Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad
The new MacBook Multi-Touch trackpad has no button because it is the button. Not having a separate button also makes for a larger trackpad surface, giving your fingers more room to move, click, and gesture. And because the trackpad supports Multi-Touch gestures, you can use one or more fingers to interact with your documents, images, and applications with gestures such as two-finger scroll, pinch, swipe, and rotate. If you come from a right-click world, you can configure a right-click area on the trackpad or simply press with two fingers.

Some of the multi-touch gestures you can perform with the MacBook.

Wireless That Works
Connect to the Internet at fast speeds anywhere thanks to the built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi. Like everything else about a Mac, joining Wi-Fi networks couldn’t be simpler. If you’ve previously connected to a network, your Mac automatically logs you in so you can immediately email, surf the web, or video chat. Have a Bluetooth-enabled phone, headset, keyboard, or mouse? They can all connect to your MacBook courtesy of built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR–and it remembers all your devices, too

Innovative Power Cord
The MagSafe Power Adapter has a magnetic connection instead of a physical one. So if someone happens to trip over the power cord while you’re working, they won’t send your new MacBook flying off a table or desk. Instead, the cord breaks cleanly away, without damage to either the cord or the system. As a bonus, you can tell if your MacBook is fully charged when the LED on the connector changes from amber to green.

Easy Access To Connections And Ports
The connections and ports on MacBook–MagSafe power, Gigabit Ethernet, Mini DisplayPort, USB, and audio in/out–are all smartly integrated on the same side of the notebook. So your cables stay neatly organized, and connecting and disconnecting your devices is easy and convenient.

Pre-Loaded with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and iLife ’09

Every Mac comes with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the world’s most advanced operating system, and iLife, Apple’s innovative suite of applications for managing photos, making movies and creating and learning to play music. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. iLife features iPhoto, to easily organize and manage photos; iMovie with powerful easy-to-use new features such as Precision Editor, video stabilization and advanced drag and drop; and GarageBand which introduces a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar.

Installed software

Mac OS X v10.6 Snow 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 ’09 (includes iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD)

Environmentally Friendly Design

Because Apple designs both hardware and software, we can reduce our environmental footprint in ways others can’t. For starters, a highly efficient power supply reduces the amount of power wasted when bringing electricity from the wall to your Mac. Unlike a lot of PCs, a Mac uses energy-efficient hardware components that work hand in hand with the operating system to conserve power–even between keystrokes.

A Mac also doesn’t contain a lot of toxic materials. All Mac displays are mercury and arsenic free, and the internal components are free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs).

Advanced Power Management
Unlike a lot of Windows-based PC systems, MacBook uses energy-efficient hardware components that work hand in hand with the operating system to conserve power. Mac OS X spins down hard drives and activates sleep mode on already energy-efficient LED-backlit displays. And it balances tasks across both central processors and graphics processors. Mac OS X never misses a power-saving opportunity, no matter how small. It even regulates the processor between keystrokes, reducing power between the letters you type. That’s just one of many ways Apple manages small amounts of power that add up to big savings.

Longer-lasting Battery–Lasts up to 5 Years
The removable batteries in most notebooks are designed to be replaced every year or two, which means lots of batteries are used up and discarded. But the battery in the new MacBook lasts up to five years–or 1000 recharges. So it uses just one battery in the same time a typical notebook uses three, reducing waste and environmental impact. And to help ensure that batteries are disposed of in an environmentally responsible way, Apple offers a battery take-back program in 95 percent of the countries in which it does business.

ENERGY STAR Qualification
The MacBook meets the stringent low power requirements set by the EPA, making it ENERGY STAR qualified. ENERGY STAR 5.0 sets significantly higher efficiency limits for power supplies and aggressive limits for the computer’s typical annual power consumption.

Apple MacBook MC207LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop

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5 Responses to “Apple MacBook MC207LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop”

FastMoneyPlayaaa Says:
January 18th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
My son has had a MacBook for about 2 or 3 yrs, and it has been a disapointment. I’ve got 3 Dell’s in the house, but my son insisted on getting a Mac because he thought it was better. First of all, for $1K, all you get is a basic computer with a small HD and only a 13″ screen. For ~ half the price, you can get a PC with a 15″ screen and more powerfull chip and drive. We’ve had several reliability issues with the Mac. One time, the bottom half of the screen stayed blank, so we had to bring it to the “genius bar”, and fortunately it was still under warranty – solution was to replace the screen. On two other occassions, we had to bring it in to have the disk drive replaced since the CD/DVD’s got stuck and would not eject. Another problem with Mac is they don’t run all the programs that a PC does. So my son just partitioned his HD and installed Windows7 on his Mac so he could run the programs his Apple OS won’t run. He conclueded that Windows7 is better, and he wants a Dell notebook for his next computer. My other son also wants a Dell notebook now.

My kids learned a valuable lesson which I am passing on to you – you don’t always get what you pay for.
Rating: 2 / 5
Paul C. Huang Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Consider the MacBook Pro instead.

For those who don’t want to carry the bulky 17″ or 15.4″ just for the matte screen, this is a good alternative? Why? You may apply anti-reflective film directly over the image plane. This is not the same as applying anti-reflective film on the glossy unibody MacBook Pro, because the image actually project about 3mm before hitting the matte film, which degrades the image by reducing clarity.

The plastic body is a vast improvement from the flawed design from May, 2006. The plastic body is more resilient and is not as likely to be dented or be deformed from normal use. The bottom plate is rubberized aluminum. It may help heat dissipation. The previous version has a very poor record with heat dissipation, so hard drive failure rate is significantly higher than any other product on the market (regardless of brand). It is a sliver (like two sheets of paper) thinner than the predecessor. (SO WHAT!)

What’s so bad about this unit?

Let me list the negative aspects of this ‘new’ product, now I am done with the positive attributes, let me outline the bad and the ugly–regardless of how trivial they might be.

* At $999, it’s only $170 less than the MacBook Pro.

* No FireWire of any kind. Apple might as well call this the ‘NeuterBook’.

* No IR remote access.

* No backlit keyboard.

* Wider and deeper than the previous version (Sorry, we are not dealing with B-movies, so these are not good attributes).

* A few ounces heavier than the 13.3″ MacBook Pro.

* No SD card slot.

I think we are easily giving up more than $170 of convenience and equipment.

Let this product fail. It’s not meant to be. Stay away from this.
Rating: 1 / 5
Patrick Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 2:11 am
I have had my macbook for about 3 years. I love the interface and the aesthetics of the computer. Within the last year, I have begun to experience trouble with my internet speed. It took 30 seconds for a webpage like DrudgeReport, all text, to load. Trying to watch streaming video is almost hopeless. I watch video for 10 seconds, it loads for 3 seconds, I watch for 10, load for 3, etc. My blackberry Bold is faster than my 13″ Macbook!

I upgraded to Leopard and thought surely that will solve my problems. No, it did not. I bought a new router. That did not do a single thing. I am not a computer whiz but I have been using PCs for the last 20 years (actually, my first computer was an Apple IIe). I am not computer illiterate. It should not be this difficult to get my mac to perform as fast as a PC laptop. Incidentally, I can connect my wife’s Dell to our wireless and she gets blazing fast wireless, so the router and network are working just fine.

I am so fed up and frustrated with Apple. After doing online searches to solve this problem, it seems that many, many people share my frustration and have uber slow internet. There are a myriad of proposed solutions…not of which have worked for me. It should be easy and quick to fix any problems and updates should be made available from Apple.

Here I am, stuck with my thousand dollar computer which I purchase specifically so that I could easily and quickly access the internet and streaming media. I feel like I have gone back 12 years in regard to speed.

Buyer beware…Apple is not as intuitive or as functional as they advertise. Yes, it is a sexy machine but it seems that often it does not perform like it should. I would much rather have a PC than this white brick of a computer.

PS – forgot to add that the internal fan likes to run at 6000+ RPMs on a regular basis. It is LOUD and HOT. Also, when this fan runs so loud and hot, it suck up your battery and slows down everything else that you are trying to do. oh, guess what? Apple does not have a fix that you can download. WTF?! Seriously. You have to get a third party program that is fortunately free and fortunately it works. Apple should provide this themselves but they do not.

I cannot understand this company. They do some things so well but just drop the ball on other things.
Rating: 2 / 5
Skyhawk Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 2:18 am
The absence of a FireWire Port is a MAJOR flaw.

Get the smaller MacBook Pro instead. (Only $168 more)

This Macbook is a non-starter due to no Firewire. Removing Firewire is like taking all the Philips screwdrivers out of a toolbox.

Firewire Target Disk Mode is arguably one of the most useful Mac diagnostic tools. With Firewire you can safely migrate, REPAIR, or perform component tests on a Mac, without damaging the internal drive. Ethernet may work, IF you have two FUNCTIONAL machines. The great thing about Firewire Target Disk mode was that if the Hard Drive or OS was corrupted, or the computer was for some reason unbootable you could still get data off of it quickly, without tools or special equipment. Firewire Target disk mode has saved my rear several times on every machine I have owned.

Thousands of devices are Firewire ONLY, with more coming out all the time and this Macbook will NEVER be able to use ANY of them.

Some FireWire advantages are:

True Target Disk Mode (ethernet can be used ONLY if the ‘Bad’ machine will boot)

FireWire can be daisy chained

Bus Power – FW – Up to 30V/45W vs USB 5V/500mA

Peer to Peer Connections (no host or CPU required)

Multiple Host on a bus support

TCP/IP Networking support

No Drivers Required (config ROM built in) aka Plug and Play

Remote Control of devices like cameras

CableTV Box Support

You can’t transfer (at full quality) a VHS tape or other Video tape using an Analog-to-DV Converter without Firewire

DMA transfers – device to device data transfer no CPU involved

Firewire allows two operating modes. One is asynchronous, like USB which suffers from latency, bus contention and collisions.

The other is isochronous mode, and it lets a device carve out a certain dedicated amount of bandwidth that other devices can’t touch. It gets a certain number of time slices each second all its own. The advantages for audio/video should be obvious: that stream of data can just keep on flowing, and as long as there isn’t more bandwidth demand than the wire can handle, nothing will interfere with it. No collisions, no glitches. Firewire is Rock Solid.

There are no USB to Firewire adapters. (Desperate Macbook owners are looking, but it can’t be done.) Firewire MUST be in the computer. USB can not “keep up” with Firewire speed.

The Macbook Pro has Firewire. (The 13.3 inch is Only $168 more.)

The MacBook has no slot for an Express Card. There’s NO WAY to connect any Firewire device to the new MacBooks…period.

Keep in mind that when Apple dropped ADB, SCSI and floppy drives in the Mac at least there where alternatives. USB floppy drives and usb to ABD adapters that protected your investment. There is NO option to connect existing or future Firewire products to the new Macbook.

When you have a Mac (with Firewire) that will not boot, it will most often still work in target disk mode making it possible to either fix the hard drive or at least back it up.

If you want to go into a creative field then Firewire is a must, and will be a standard for a long time, this includes video, photo, and especially anything to do with music.

Firewire is “isochronous”, basically meaning that you can pump “clocked” data though it in real time. USB works more like TCPIP, with the data chopped up into packets and later reassembled.

Firewire is continuing to improve. (Firewire 3200 will be out soon.) Firewire is more relevant than it ever has been.

Apple has always been a visionary company, leading the way in new technology adoption. This one has me scratching my head. They have removed a mature, ubiquitous and robust protocol and replaced it with… NOTHING!

Get the smaller MacBook Pro instead.

Rating: 1 / 5
Sky Blue Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 4:14 am
This review is for those who consider using this as a Windows OS notebook.

Although Windows OS (Vista or 7) works on Macbook via Bootcamp, the touchpad has always posed some problem. There was shifting or drifting of the cursor . Right-click using two fingers has always been a problem, as at the moment you put two fingers, the cursor will move around and select a wrong area. Right-clicking on songs in the Itunes has always been a pain — you end up using the mouse rather than the touchpad. That was with the previous version Macbook.

This new version makes things even worse. The supposedly improved touchpad is a nightmare, as now clicking is even harder — you have to push it really hard to click, and as you push hard, the cursor will almost always dance around. You end up pushing wrong buttons in your browser. Of course you can click in the center of the touchpad and the cursor will move around less (because you are not lifing your finger and you are using the same one finger) but the middle-part of the touchpad needs to be applied even more force to be pushed. This is truly problematic. So I am currently almost always using a mouse, rendering the touchpad useless. You don’t have this issue when you run the system using Snow Leopard. You have this drifting cursor issue only when using the Windows. I think this may be a driver compatibility issue. Lots of unwanted right-clicks too if you bring your hand too close to the touchpad. Furthermore, none of the much touted multi-touch capability would work in the Windows environment.

I have contacted Apple several times, but they are clueless and do not care. Their response is always simple: this is Windows OS problem, not our problem. (Of course, if you contact Microsoft, you get the opposite answer: this is a Mac problem.) It’s like a ping pong game between these two giants and customers lose out in the middle. I’d say this is a Mac problem since Mac specifically advertises that the Macbook works seamlessly in a windows environment. It doesn’t. By design? I don’t know. But they don’t seem to care.

So I have this suggestion for Windows users: buyers beware until Apple irons this problem out. Otherwise you will end up always using a mouse like me when using the Windows.

This is just one issue, albeit the biggest one. You will always hear tick, tick sound when you are using the Windows on this computer. (You will not hear it if you turn off the volume.) You may have all kinds of sound card and voice driver incompatibility issues — I searched the Internet for answers as my Skype did not work and had to install drivers that did not come with the Macbook. In other words, the Windows system on this computer — you must regard it as beta, or some sort of experimental stage. I do not think it is right for Apple to treat Windows users that way, since many of us have bought this computer based on Apple’s claim that Windows works nicely on this one.
Rating: 2 / 5