| Apple MacBook black 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/1GB/160GB/SD/AP/BT |  | Brand: Apple
Category: Personal Computer
Buy Used: £542.00
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Seller: aj2012
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 11,177
Media: Electronics
Operating System: OS X
CPU Speed: 2.2
CPU Type: Intel Core 2 Duo
System Bus Speed: 667
System Memory: 1
Hard Drive Size: 160
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Display Size: 13.3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.1
Dimensions (in): 18 x 17.2 x 5.7
MPN: MB063B/A
Model: MB063B/B
UPC: 885909208845
EAN: 0885909172481
ASIN: B000QW6QJG
Release Date: May 16, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Powered by the latest generation of Intel processors, every new MacBook is even faster than the previous generation. Right out of the box, you can have a video chat with friends or family, record a video at your desk, or take fun pictures with Photo Booth
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 Trully Amazing! July 30, 2007
Ben Hunte (London, UK)
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
This is top of the range, true class. I was a PC user who downloaded Safari for Windows XP and just fell in love with Apple's easy to use and innovative interface from then on.
Ive been using Apple products ever since the launch of the 3rd Generation iPod at HMV London all those years ago, but had never so much as touched an Apple computer. I really should have.
The black Macbook just for some reason looks so much more classy/slick/stylish than the white versions, when the Apple Logo is all lit up on the lid and you're in a dark place: it looks amazing. Serious envy. Everywhere I've taken it so far (literally everywhere) people have glared at it with such wanting eyes, especially those that know that the black version is the highest model.
The most amazing thing about the macbook is its start-up speed, ease of use (I now LOVE the one button pad), the hotkeys (i.e.Ctrl + F = Switch to Windows Vista), and ofcourse - THE ABILITY TO RUN WINDOWS!!! Parallels Desktop is the most amazing software ever created, with one click and 2 minutes I can be using Microsoft Office 2007 in WIndows Vista Business ON MY MAC. Amazing, and I would know as I use it so frequently.
Just to prove my BlackMac love: Within the first 2 weeks of owning my notebook the paint started chipping away & flaking off, at all of the edges and where the screen-lid met the body. I mean BADLY, like rub your finger on it and the spot will get bigger, badly. BUT: I rang up Amazon this morning, and within 5 minutes of describing the issue a NEW ONE was on its way to be here tomorrow!!! THAT is service. In my haste to get the issue fixed I also rang up Apple beforehand, and all they could suggest was visiting the Genius Bar in Apple Store London (15mins by Tube) and seeing what they say, so they booked me in and stuff for tomorrow (Tues) but after Amazon's Service I don't need to go anymore! [I will though, just to make my 'frustration' known. Ha]
Overall, a wicked wicked wicked notebook and I would recommend it to anyone with a lotta money! ...but not to anybody I know... cos it's nice being the only one at school with such an envious notebook!
BTW: Get this version with 160GB or 120GB at the minimum, the harddrive space will be low and nearly gone before you know it [and I'm only using it for Student-type stuff!]. + 1GB of RAM for me is just fine, no probs at all.
Another convert joins the flock... April 28, 2008
Dr. P. J. A. Wicks (London, England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
To put this in context my dad worked for Digital (DEC) when I was a child and I first started using PC's at the age of 3. I got my first PC at about 11 or 12, a 486 with (gasp!) a CD-ROM drive that took three days to install. Now I'm not saying I'm Old-Skool(TM) as I never owned a C64 (just an Atari ST), but I just wanted to state I've been a PC fanboy for a long time. I'd always hated Macs. Macs were those grey boxy things that only ran Prince of Persia, although apparently they were great for "desktop publishing", whatever that is. It didn't sound like something with grenade launchers or helicopters so I wasn't interested.
Then, the iPod happened and Macs were colourful and plasticcy, but again, no games and a slight bit of arrogance about them. Fast forward a few years and I now do a LOT of web work and Office-type stuff, video-conferencing to the States every other night, and travelling a lot. As the company I work for is full of Mac-o-philes they got me this MacBook (in beautiful black) to try and convert me, and it worked. It wasn't that steep a learning curve, I figured most of it out on the plane one day, and once I'd installed MS Office and a few applications I was away. Here's some things I love about this Mac:
* It turns on very quickly - I hate how my desktop PC takes 5 minutes to be ready to work, especially with virus software etc.
* It multitasks very well - I have no problem throwing around multiple open windows and it's all very pretty and easy to use.
* It's highly customisable - If I move my mouse to the top-right corner it clears away to the desktop. Contrast that with WinXP where I have to hit the tiny little icon on my toolbar, although about 2% of the time I hit the app next to it. Annoying! The only downside to all this customisation is that if you borrow someone else's Mac they've got a completely different setup to you and you feel a bit clumsy.
* It just works - WiFi connection is a doddle, as is plugging it into projectors, networks, routers etc. It just works. It makes you wonder why PC's require such obsessive amounts of attention to function properly.
* It looks beautiful - It's not the Air, but it's still a thing of beauty. When you first open the box you do go "ooooooh" quite a lot.
* Battery life rocks - My PC laptop (a Sony Vaio) only had maybe 2.5-3hrs charge depending on what you were doing, the Mac consistently has 5hrs+
* iChat is brilliant - I've been using Skype for a while through my PC and had problems with disconnects, distortions, etc. Now we use iChat (comes installed on all Macs with OS X I think) and it's flawless. Even better we just learned how to do video conference calling, which is a godsend for a distributed company like ours.
* Accessories are brilliant - The magsafe power cord is officially best invention ever. The mighty mouse (two buttons!) is great, and there are some very slinky laptop cases you can get to go with it. The Mac is a practical fashion accessory, and you can see the envy on the faces of people with WinBox Laptops...
Now, with all these positives you'd think I might be blinded to some of its flaws, so I thought I'd list those too:
* When it crashes, it really crashes - Some people say Macs don't crash; that's incorrect. Particularly if it's been on standby for a long time rather than being reset properly, it is prone to crash maybe once or twice a week, completely unexpectedly and with no warning. Shutdown and reboot each day, it only takes a few minutes anyway.
* No games - I used to play a lot of PC games but am moving over to Wii and other things anyway, but I miss not being able to have more games on a system. Bizarrely the chess that comes with my version of Leopard crashes on move 16. Oh well, I suck at chess anyway.
* iTunes is not my favourite site - I've gotten a few things down off of iTunes (Ratatouille v good!), South Park, some songs, and I hate the iTunes store. It's laid out badly, there aren't reviews, they could learn a lot from Amazon.
* It turns you into a smug git - Seriously. You know those "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" ads? I thought they were pretty obnoxious. But now I find I AM THAT GUY. Over at my parents' house trying to use dad's PC; "Oh this is a bit slow, you might want to get a Mac", "Oh, I see you got the new Vaio. Errr, neat." Being a Mac convert makes you about as annoying as an ex-smoker (and I'm one of those too).
Awesome Machine October 18, 2007
R. Mullaney (Leeds, UK)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm sitting here writing this review on my new Apple Macbook and after the two nonsensical bad reviews below, I'd like to redress the balance.
This is an awesome laptop.
I'm already a big Apple Mac fan after making the slightly scary switch from a Windows PC to an Apple iMac a couple of years ago. Generally I have never once regretted it and I really feel like I'm slumming it if I have to use a Windows PC for any reason. Mac OSX is truly a more intuitive, user friendly and more reliable platform than the clunky, crash prone Windows.
I still, however, have a few slight issues about moving to Mac OSX. One is that although Microsoft Office for Mac allows you to open Powerpoint documents, it doesn't support ActiveX so some interactive features don't work. A minor niggle for most, but I'm a teacher and until now my presentations haven't been as good as they should have been. Another problem is that some programs still aren't released on Mac. I have a great little program that allows me to clean up sound quality on vinyl recordings but it's Windows only.
The solution?
An Apple Macbook with Intel Core 2 Duo processor. This brilliant feature allows me to run Windows XP (avoid Vista) alongside Mac OSX. Just download Apples brilliant Bootcamp software and follow the easy instructions to creat a completely separate partition on the hard drive for Windows. It's genius! You can boot it up in either mode and drag files into either partition from the desktop. Therefore when I absolutely have to, Windows is at my disposal. The only problem is that the computer will be vunerable to viruses etc. when in Windows mode so antivirus software will be needed which it's not on Mac OSX.
Apart from all that, the Macbook is a sleek, good looking powerhouse that works faster than my iMac and contains a massive 160GB hard drive. Then you have all the brilliant features such as spotlight (superfast file search), iLife, and much more.
Brilliant.
very impressed, sme future room for improvement though October 21, 2007
Jay Woody (Kent, UK)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Ok well firstly this laptop is great, expensive but great. I have had my laptop for around 8 months, i got it from pc world and had the mac lessons and one of the guys said that it seemed a bit flakey but its ok. The battery is very impressive and if your doin what im doin now ie browsing the internet with the brightest screen setting it will last for around 5 hrs. I often run my battery right down deliberatly as it tends to make the batteries last longer, and just to add try not to charge up things over night cos it will ruin the battery if you leave it connected to the mains for too long.
Anyway back to my reveiw, the batteries if your watching a dvd could last for around 3 hrs and the longest you could really make it last for is 6hrs i guess.
The mac can be very useful, it has built in bluetooth which is useful for connecting your mobile to, i also bought a wirless mighty mouse which is very good and would reccomend, also a bit over priced. The general idea of apple is that if it has their name on it the will overprice it but the are 90 times out of 100 it will be good quality. The wirless internet or 'airport' can be a bit hit and miss occasionally when going on the internet but is normally ok.
The isight i just want to mention can not be used on MSN, but it can be used on skype and apples own chatty things "very discriptive" There is no flash on it but it is still very good. If you want to make videos you have to go on imovie. I was a bit dissapointed though about msn, you can also add funny effects on the pictures as many people know and then can be used on msn or internet profile.
Im going to quickly skim through the rest now.
iphoto is very fun and you can use up your time on it sorting out pics and albums changing the lighting etc.
itunes is the same as windows
i bought microsoft office for this which im very impressed with and i also got student discount at the mac shop which is brill.
some of the softwear that it comes with, like windows, you dont need to use but often have an urge to know what it is, trust me you dont really need it like the apple script softwear.
the widgets, calendar and address book is all very fun and useful.
it comes with garage band also which is fun.
also i suppose i must add that the memory is very big and i dont think i will be using it all anytime soon. literally thousands of pics and music etc etc can be stored and much much more.
i do reccomend that you look on the apple downloads bit for extra widgets and softwear, especially for spywear protection etc strongly reccomend macscan.
overall this is very fun laptop compared to windows and i would reccomend it if you have a spare £1000 odd once you get your games and other softwear and hardwear. Good investment overall in i look forward to using it when doing my coursework for gcses because you can do some really different things when on word.
the general quality is great and the colour is nice too.
hope you found this useful as it took me about 10 minutes.
 A Ferrari that drives like a Citroen Diane January 10, 2009
Matthew Thorpe (London)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first started using Macs in the late 80's. At work I used a Mac SEII; a funny box like thing. In the early 90's I bought a Mac for my home computer, can't remember the type; one with a separate CPU. Both computers and associated software were miles ahead of any of MS Dos PC computer I used at work. Practically everything about them felt like Apple had a foot in the future and an in depth understanding of what users wanted and how to make it easy. I was an "Apple-bore". Anywhere I worked I advocated that we used Apples.
In the mid/late 90's I had to buy a PC, I got a Dell laptop, which - I thought - worked adequately. In late 2006 it died. I excitedly started reviewing the current Apple Macs and their spec.s for one I would purchase now I no longer was obliged to have a PC. Following a few trials in Apple resellers this (or its forerunner) was the one I chose.
From the word go it was a disappointment.
- The software was nowhere near as superior to PC's as it had been in the early 90's in fact the photo management (iPhoto) is considerably second rate in comparison to the what ever crusty photo management I had on the Dell.
- The hardware struggled. Multi-tasking is painful; imagine your gran' running a marathon with a rucksac on her back and you begin to get the picture of having say more than two applications open. It has a nice fancy spinning wheel instead of an 'egg-timer' these days - get used to it! You are going to see it a lot.
- It is not unusual that the curser just freezes or disappears altogether while the processor is 'thinking about some trivial action or other'.
- It frequently loses the wireless signal requiring a restart, even though the wireless is fully operational
- iCal and Address book are a poor copy of outlook and unfortunately do not work as well (I am no lover of Microsoft, but you have got to say it how you see it).
- The 'Finder' is a second rate Windows Explore functionality that is cumbersome to use and either doesn't respond to mouse clicks or is overly sensitive, so when trying to change the name of a document it will open it instead - repeatedly!
- I have also lost count of the number of times during a day when an application spontaneously closes.
- After a couple of years the battery power would just deplete; the status bar could be as high as 50% but then BLANK! nothing - all power gone. Put the power cord in and the power is at 0% not 50%.
- As the processor is so poor and the Finder functionality is so slow it is often hard to tell whether whether upon clicking on the document/application whether it is opening or not; resulting in either just waiting and nothing happening or losing patience and repeatedly clicking and five(!!) or more documents/applications open.
I maybe exaggerating to say that you could cook your breakfast on the bottom of the laptop after it has been on for half an hour or so but not by much. I can quite believe the stories of Macbooks bursting into flames; it is uncomfortable to have the machine on my lap after a while.
The first item to break was the cable. The contacts in the magnetic input (a great idea) just stopped conducting electricity. Ok buy a new one - yep I did and had to practically re-mortgage for this rather ordinary piece of nothing. The next thing to self-destruct was the hard drive with ALL of the associated information - no reason, it just died. Not quite so fundamental, ordinary nor simple. If I had to re-mortgage for the cable imagine what I had to do for the HDD?(!!!) Of course the repair shop could only replace a 160GB with a 300GB. Now the single mouse button (a bad idea) is at best on the blink and will need repairing. Watch-out bank manager. None of this includes the day to day frustration of frozen software, having to re-boot all the time and the incompatibility with many other pieces of software.
Apple is without a doubt the sexiest brand in IT; it without doubt has the most cool - whatever that means - interface with some of its OS and software; none of which really helps if the basics don't work! Apple - by my experience over the last 20 years - has lost its strategic edge over Microsoft. I can't help but think that some people just "buy-into" the hype around Apple and forget to judge it by its merits. I do wonder what Apple would be without iPod(iTunes); probably in a tail-spin with the behemoth Microsoft about to eat it up.
Buying a poor product is one thing but what makes it worse is that I use an ugly IBM Thinkpad at work which can do - and does - everything this product can and in most instances does it better.
Three years after purchase this Mac was dead and useless and had to be replaced
THIS PRODUCT IS NOT RECOMMENDED
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