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By: Stickers Honda

Stickers Honda — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:06:17 +0000

Pretty nice, my friend got one to!

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By: steven

steven — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:18:16 +0000

Dan, I think you mean “off gassing”? The machine is made of pretty pure materials, like aluminum, and glass. Very little plastic, except for the keyboard, and internals. I’ve got a pretty sensitive nose and I didn’t get any bad off gassing from the thing. You should be ok.

By: Dan De L'eau

Dan De L'eau — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:05:14 +0000

How is this MacBook’s “new computer smell”. I’m sensitive to outgassing from new electronics.

By: Melonie

Melonie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:51:59 +0000

@ Drdul: thanks. Now that is what I call intriguing.

I’m in love with glossy screens, too.

By: Thorin Messer

Thorin Messer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:25:04 +0000

You can turn off the dimming of the display based on ambient light. Perhaps you know this already, but in case: System Preferences > Displays > Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes.

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By: Charles W. Moore

Charles W. Moore — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:39:21 +0000

Hi All;

Addressing some specific comments/question:

I should have mentioned how silent my MacBook is — the quietest MAc I’ve ever owned.

Temperature: Runs in the 50s C most of the time – sometimes in the low 60s and occasionally spiking into the low 70s under heavy load.

USB throughput:

Carbon Copy Cloner drive clone run on 1.33 GHz G4 PowerBook via FireWire to SimpleTech Duo Pro drive – roughly 5-6 hours.

Carbon Copy Cloner drive clone run on 2.0 GHz unibody MacBook via USB 2 to SimpleTech Duo Pro drive – 24 hours.

Essentially the same amount of data transferred

Charles

By: steven

steven — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:23:58 +0000

I have the 2.4 ghz unibody Macbook and have been on it for 3 months. My girlfriend has the 2.0 version. It’s my first Mac and I reluctantly went for it after I couldn’t find a PC notebook I liked. I had Mac aversion. After 3 months I’m still buzzed from this machine. It’s incredibly well engineered and absolutely solid. I thought I would install XP on it, but found I can live without it fine enough. I find it weird that I was so against Mac computers when I’d never owned one. I suspect a lot of PC people are like that. Something bad must have happened in the 80′s that left a subconscious aversion to Apple. Maybe we just mistrust something that looks so good. It must have a down side, right?! Looks good, but, say, catches on fire! “I should have gotten something ugly that was less fire prone… damn!!!” I find that the aesthetic of the machine and OS X has been infected the rest of my life too. Clean up your life to look like a new Macbook and you’re on the road to contentment.