Apple Laptops

Because Apple knows people will pay the premium. The specs are (or used to be) exactly the same between the top white Macbook and the black one.

the specs are slightly different. the black one is kind of inbetween the macbook & the macbook pro specs. i forget the specifics, but i've been laptop shopping & am leaning toward the black macbook.

$200 difference in cost.

i thought the specs were the same UNLESS u got the higher up black macbook

that has to be for more then jsut the color.

the black does look nice though

maybe it's material - the black exterior isn't glossy/shiny, it's a matte finish

it is really sexy

40GB of HD space for $200 - what isn't a fantastic deal about that?

Surmounter's a one man crew ensuring that no one ever buys a black Macbook again.

why's that milo?

i might just say fuck it and get the black one. stay home and drink with my new BLACK macbook instead of going out for a few weeks

You certainly pay a premium for black. You can customise the white one and bring it up to the specs of the black one if you like, and it'll still be a lot cheaper.

the specs are here:

http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html

the black one has a slightly larger hard drive. otherwise, it shares everything else with the higher white macbook.

i had an iBook for a really long time, so the thought of getting a white iBook was too much for me. i also really, really missed my old black Powerbook.

excuse me the thought of getting a white MacBook was too much. white is great but it was old.

Of course, if you happen down Buchanan Street in Glasgow on a Saturday in the very near future, you could get a McBook for £250.

???

you pay a premium cuz it looks more fashionable to some. paying more for style = not really a new concept.

(though personally i think it just makes them look like PC laptops)

way more stylin

i love black macs, cuz i always felt they were the less common mac. and black is just so great.

i love white too but something about the black seems so powerful.

which is why in terms of style, the black PowerBook has earned my fondest memories when it comes to apple laptops.

I like black in its place, but not in that styling. White forever, black never.

The black MB costs more than the white MB for the same reason the black iPod cost(s?) more than the white iPod.

Welcome to capitalism.

but the black ipod doesn't cost more?

doesn't it?

black shows scratches and shmutz more easily anyway.

but which one will help me pick up the hawter chicks?

eh debatable. my white iBook looks kinda dirty cuz it's white.

um the black for chix

sold

The black one cost much more when it was introduced. I dunno now.

The same may happen to the black iBookMacBook eventually.

The black looks more like a Thinkpad, which is nice because I'd rather have a Thinkpad than an Apple notebook anyway. Except for Windows, obviously.

I still wish I could get a MacBook Pro in a gun metal blue color

Any chick that picks you up bcz of your MacBook or laptop in general is not a girl you want to date. I made you some soup.

I made you some soup.

Best pickup line ever.

My friend K used to make pies at the drop of a hat. Like, "K, what are you doing?" "Nothing." "Would you like to make me a pie?" "Sure!"

BAM! Then you had a pie, made from SCRATCH.

Anyway, "I made you a pie." is even >>>>> than "I made you some soup."

Cozen, Grand Opening

My mom got a black MacBook a year after she bought that silvery looking Apple Laptop (which heats up so much you could warm up the entire eskimo population). She doesn't like the keyboard so much, says it's a bit of hassle. She likes to complain. :-)

I regret having bought an iMAC, should have gone with a laptop. :-(

Cozen, Grand Opening

see, all i can see there is something about a free T-shirt (w00t) and a grand draw. stet is convinced that he's going to come away with a lucky bag packed with macbooks and some of steve jobs's spare gold ingots, but i'm not.

that said, i'm just jealous 'cos i won't be able to make the opening day. bugger. can someone pick me up some ingots? ta.

I like ingots

Mister M has ordered me a new iBook because this one is full (which I suppose is a bit like buying a new car because the ashtrays in the current one are full). We're giving my current iBook to his sister. Thing is, the trackpad is a bit fucked on it - it has a tendency to get stuck scrolling or not scrolling, and sometimes the cursor won't move, and I've just noticed the up arrow key is having a problem too. Is there any point in trying to get this fixed before we give her the thing, or should I just say "hey, here's a laptop. It's a bit shit, but it's better than nothing"?

My 12" iBook finally died this month.

I took it apart into seven pieces (RAM, screen, upper casing, bottom casing, touch pad, battery, logic board) and ended up Ebay auctioning those working pieces off for more than the whole thing was worth in working order. Crazy.

Yeah, pricing for used Apple parts is wacky. A friend of mine was looking for an Airport card for a G4 tower and online they were going for $200. This is one of the only instances in which I can think of computer parts appreciating in value.

I broke down and bought a MBP 2.4GHz yesterday, refurbished, to replace the one I was using from the job I just got laid off from. The one I'd had there worked flawlessly; this one just had the trackpad freeze up on me. Has this happened to anyone else? This is one of the new unibody aluminum laptops with the 'glass' trackpad. I had to do a full reboot to get out of it. There were definitely some apple software updates that needed to be installed and I've done that but now I'm afraid to put the thing to sleep.

If it's messed up now you're better off figuring it out now, within the first two weeks, so you can send it back and get it fixed for free (if it's a physical hardware problem)...

Take it straight back to the store and they should give you a new one straight away.

iirc one of those software updates may have fixed the issue for you

if it happens again, hie thee to the genius bar

That has happened exactly once to me - IIRC mine was also coming out of sleep. After a reboot all was fine. Haven't had it since, nor have I tried to bother duplicating it - I trust that Apple will take care of me should this reoccur.

Also, interesting fact: I heard that the reject rate on manufacturing the glass trackpads at the factory is something like 50%, so it's conceivable a few duds made it out the door...

does anyone else have this macbook problem where clicking once on the trackpad button makes a double-click? so when you hit your back button it goes back two pages, and then you hit forward and it goes forward two pages? or you can't really check a checkbox because it checks and unchecks in one click? argh. it's ok as long as i stay away from the left side of the button but i would like it to be normal again

finally bumped my 15.4" macbook pro up to 4GB of RAM yesteray, it is like a whole new machine. It's a bit disappointing to realize that 2GB on this was barely enough, I kept having slowness changing b/w apps (admittedly, memory hogging apps like photoshop/dreamweaver and firefox, which still has some kind of horrible memory leak if you leave it running all day); running vmware fusion was almost pointless; now it's so smooth it makes me drool. hopefully snow leopard will turn out to be the slimmer, faster OS its rumored to be.