Comments on: MacBook Update from Apple Rivals Netbook Run-Time

By: Webby

Webby — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:04:55 +0000

Glad to hear your opinion.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:34:32 +0000

So will the macbook 13 inch be cheaper than it is now this holiday season? and how much?

By: Fasho

Fasho — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:24:32 +0000

That’s a small price to pay for a product where everything works when you plug it in or install it. Windows is the one with the monopoly, they are the ones who buy out or steal everyone else’s ideas. And when a company resists like Google, they start a rival website like bing and then claim that Google has a monopoly. Funny how Google remains open source while Microsoft screams because they are losing money. Funny what happens when a better product does not bow down to the man. Cry my a river, and if you don’t want to pay for a mac use linux or better yet just buy a mac and run windows in the safest environment ever, in a mac.

While i respect that you do not like apple interface that’s a preference, dont try and say that microsoft is not equally bad or worse. They put a product out they know is not safe and easily infiltrated. I wonder how much money they make from virus removal software companies, or how many people they have on the payroll who make the virus that end up on their machines. vicious cycle…

By: gmazin

gmazin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:45:55 +0000

My macbook (last revision with x3100 gfx) gets more than 1 hour under the advertised time (80% brightness, can’t really use less outside). Sure you COULD potentially reach the advertised time if all you did was light surfing, but even on my netbook, I do more than just surf light pages (and still get over 7 hours of life with full brightness). Which is my point.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:51:29 +0000

Nope. No way. Not gonna happen. Not until it has a footprint of 10.9″ x 8.6″.

By: Rico

Rico — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:22:32 +0000

Macs will always be better than PC’s no matter how much they change in my eyes, I have had problem after problem with my PC Laptop, where as my MacBook has never so much as crashed. The battery in my PC is down to about 1/2 hour and my mac is still at around 2 hours this is after the same amount of time and the same amount of use. Macs rule.

By: Zigzagjoe

Zigzagjoe — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:43:25 +0000

I’ve owned and used both 13 and 15in macbooks (still have the 15in) and they do indeed get that much battery life. Roughly 6 hours with wifi on, listening to music, while browsing the internet, or 7 hours with wifi off, using word (could be more playing with brightness).

Nevermind they use non-anemic processors (the atom is an abomination), with plenty of ram, an optical drive (imagine that), etc, etc. The 13in macbook outclasses any netbook except for the price. But you get what you pay for.

By: Nameless

Nameless — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:07:44 +0000

This new plastic MacBook was very intriguing…and then I noticed the glaring omission of FireWire.

I don’t mind it as much on typical Wintel PCs, but Macs have this little feature called Target Disk Mode that turns them into external drive enclosures. It only works with built-in FireWire.

By: ss1

ss1 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:07:29 +0000

Duuno. Anandtech showed that with the MacBook Pro’s they were easily able reproduce Apple’s claimed battery life figures: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3580. Unless you have any compelling evidence otherwise your claim holds no validity.

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:52:47 +0000

They should have given it a 1″ smaller screen (12″ instead of 13″), dropped the optical drive, maybe a core-2 solo instead of duo, and start with 1GB of RAM instead of 2GB.

Then lower the price accordingly.

Would just barely qualify as a netbook, at the upper end of the price and size ranges. And might get everyone to stop talking about an Apple Netbook.

By: David Andrade

David Andrade — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:15:21 +0000

I just don’t like Apple computers. I don’t like the way the OS works or the interface or commands.

I also don’t like supporting a monopoly like Apple. Microsoft has nothing on monopolies compared to Apple, who controls everything related to their products.

I also have a hard time buying products from a company that brags about a 35% profit margin. Talk about gouging a consumer. That is a monstrous profit margin for any company, but people keep buying their products, so they can keep up the profit margin.

I’ve used Mac’s and played with friends’ iPhones. Just didn’t like them.

By: gmazin

gmazin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:13:02 +0000

Plus you should note that Apple really likes to bloat up its battery times. You probably will not get over 5.5 hours of netbook-like use. Where as there are netbooks lasting 7 hours on full brightness with constant use.