On the front edge, the sleep status indicator is longer and narrower than before, but conspicuously absent is the infrared (IR) port that used to sit to the right of it. It takes some getting used to if you’ve been using the previous design, but the change is a good one. After using the new MacBook for a while, I’ve found the smooth, large trackpad more enjoyable than the one on my earlier-generation MacBook. It’s larger than the combined pad-and-button area on the old model.
2009 MACBOOK MEMORY UPGRADE MAC
The new MacBook has a fixed battery, located to the left of the hard drive (photo courtesy of ).Īlso new is that the MacBook-like every other Mac laptop other than the Air-now has a glass Multi-Touch trackpad with gesture support. During that time (and during our other testing) the bottom of the MacBook never got very warm, which had been a complaint of some MacBook users in the past. That was exactly the same duration as the 13-inch 2.26GHz MacBook Pro, and 40 minutes longer than the previous MacBook.
2009 MACBOOK MEMORY UPGRADE FULL
In our battery test, the charge lasted for an impressive four hours and nine minutes while playing a looped video clip in QuickTime X at full screen and full brightness, but with AirPort turned off.
2009 MACBOOK MEMORY UPGRADE PLUS
Integrating the battery into the design allows for a larger (and therefore longer-lasting) battery, plus it reduces some weight. It is still pretty easy, however, to access the hard drive and RAM slots for quick upgrades or replacements in those areas. The company charges $129 to replace the battery-the same price you’d pay for an extra battery for an older MacBook-which can be done as a same-day service in an Apple Store (or whatever they’re called in 2014). Apple says that the battery should take about five years to reach that point, but your mileage will vary. As with Apple’s other unibody laptops, the battery is not user-replaceable, but Apple says that the battery gives you between three and a half and seven hours of juice and up to 1000 charge cycles before being reduced to 80 percent capacity. This surface is smoother and doesn’t provide as much friction as the pads on the older MacBooks did, and it collected a fair amount of dirt and debris from my desk (although a quick rub got it looking good as new).Īnother problem with the unibody design is that it requires that the battery be built in. Instead of nonskid pads in the corners on the bottom of the MacBook, the entire surface is one giant rubberized foot secured by eight Phillips screws.
The keyboard also feels more solid and consistent. The result is a consistent white color, and a smoother surface without the sharp edges of the earlier generation. In switching to a unibody design, the new MacBook sheds the grayish surface that appeared grafted atop the frame in the previous model ( ). Making the MacBook’s main case out of a single piece of polycarbonate plastic (aluminum on all other Apple models) results in fewer parts, fewer screws, a lighter weight, and better durability. One of the big ones was unibody construction. As the least-expensive model, it was missing several of the new design features that had already been made standard across the rest of the laptop line. In many ways, the white MacBook was the lone holdout among Apple portables.
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