Why I buy this one ?
- 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo processor with 2 MB shared L2 Cache
- 512 MB (two SO-DIMM) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); 60 GB 5400 rpm Serial ATA hard drive; slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- One FireWire 400, two USB 2.0 ports, Mini-DVI port with support for DVI, VGA, S-video, and composite video output (requires adapters, sold separately)
- Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit); built-in 54 Mbps AirPort Extreme (802.11g); built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
- 13.3-inch (diagonal) glossy TFT widescreen display, 1280 x 800 resolution

What our customer's say!

"macbook", if you ever buy an apple computer, make sure you buy apple care. They are good machines, but something always goes wrong. My battery gave out after one year - completely useless, and expensive to replace

"Great Service and Item", Very Good Quality and I love the mac. Much better than a PC. Great item and service.

"defective keyboard common!", WHite MacBook $1099. Bought last week after iBook died a sudden death. From beginning, the keyboard didn't register anything. After 15 or 20 minutes it worked fine. Once i stopped using computer and started again, keyboard didn't work. Keys went down but got no movement. Kept thinking problem would go away. 2 days later, called Indonesia or wherever Mac hires it low-wage workers, and they wanted to reprogram my settings, which I refused to do. (TIP: Don't bother, it's useless to do any resetting!) Instead they gave me appt. at a nearby Apple Store that night. The Genius at the Genius Bar admitted (sotto voce) that MANY MANY MANY of these MacBooks have this problem and APple has NO idea how to fix. ALl they know is that getting a new keyboard does not work, nor does resetting the settings. She warned that when she gave me a new one, which she did, it might have the same problem. It did not have the same problem until last night. Now it does. I have no idea what to do. She also said the next higher price MacBook, the black one, ALSO has the same problem. DOn't know if the more expensive silver one does too. THis really sucks, and esp. because Mac has no idea how to fix it. What are they coming to?
After taxes and Apple Care, I spent $1500 for a defective computer and it seems like the next one will be defective if I go to the trouble of replacing this one.


"Battery For This Product Is Junk", Start with the positive: all that garbage you hate about Windows machines is gone. The Mac starts up fast and runs relatively flawlessly while in use - no crashing, etc.

But, what's the point of owning a laptop with a dead battery? I've owned this computer for just over 12 months and the battery is dead, kaput, sleeps with the fishes. Tethered to the wall with a power cord, it's now just a glorified desktop computer. This rapid battery failure is not unusual, either; go to the Apple store website and check the reviews for the battery that powers the Macbook. This battery is junk.

So, the bottom line appears to be this: budget $130 every year to buy a new battery.

Frankly, I'm inclined to slink back to a Windows machine with my next purchase. I shouldn't have to pay $130 every year to "renew" my Apple laptop privileges.

"Damaged refurbished product", I got my laptop only to find out that the keyboard didn't work and I had to take it in to apple and get it repaired when I needed it for work. Not cool selling products that are still damaged as repaired.

Jesse Turner

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Miffed in Maine", It looks great. But the one shipped to us wouldn't load music CDs. The Apple tech guys advised returning it for a replacement. We're currently mired in Amazon replacement Hell -- UPS saying that the glitch is due to Amazon, and three different Amazon customer service reeps each giving a different story as to how the return/replacement should be handled. So far, then, bad marks to Apple (for shipping a defective machine) and worse ones to Amazon (for being spectacularly unhelpful, and confusingly inconsistent.

"Not impressed....", I was very excited to switch from a PC to a Mac & after a lot of convincing, my husband agreed to try it. Well, it showed up and didn't even turn on! We got it to boot a couple of times, but it wouldn't stay on long enough to get through the welcome screens. We sent it back and ordered one directly from Apple. That one works great. Something must have happened either in Amazon's warehouse or during shipping.

"leebs likes new MacBook", As a very elderly gent, I appreciate the fine operation of the New MacBook. Especially untouted stuff, like the far better keyboard - the magnetic power connector - the Widget gadget - the Spotlight - and the Safari. Good stuff, all. (Well, maybe not completely untouted)

"Best laptop I ever had!!", I was a windows user for many years and when Mac launch the macbook I fell in love with its design. After a couple of months saving the money I was finally able to buy it. The first impression was wonderful from the box to the accessories. The macbook is great and I never had any problems with it.
I should had wait to buy the core 2 duo series that came a month later, still a great machine much better than any PC will ever find.
I purchase the 512MB memory but am upgrading to 1GB, its a must.
The only downside I found was the gloss finish which is very easy to scratch.

"The Macbook is excellent. Amazon, though...", Receiving my Macbook was an odyssey. When the box from Amazon initially arrived, it contained... a ten-pound container of laundry soap. Someone had "removed" the Macbook itself somewhere along the way and placed the soap in. Since the Macbook I ordered from Amazon had spent several days in Amazon's warehouses while payment details were worked out, I unscientifically concluded that an Amazon warehouse employee had made off with / been complicit in someone making off with my Macbook.

A call to Amazon (well, several calls to Amazon) resolved the issue. I received a refund the following day, despite initially asking for a replacement. Be careful when you tell an Amazon employee that you want a replacement and not a refund!

They do NOT know when they will be able to ship a replacement (mine would have taken many days just to get out Amazon's door, which I only found out hours after talking to the first representative... and I needed the 'book before going on a trip three business days later), and once you make the decision you can NOT take it back! I was lucky in that the Amazon employee I talked to on my third call *told* me that I could not have a refund, but somehow managed to engineer it anyway. Very strange.

Anyhow, I walked over to my local Apple store that night, picked one up (along with a third-party 2GB memory upgrade)... and wow. The Macbook is a beautiful piece of machinery. It's fast, it runs OS X and Windows XP equally well, and it has great battery life for what amounts to a little powerhouse. With the latest firmware upgrades, the oft-mentioned Macbook heat issue does not exist for me, and I use the Macbook extensively.

I've used the Macbook primarily for my job (software engineer), gaming (World of Warcraft in OSX, Company of Heroes in XP), and watching movies on its fantastic screen. It has excelled in every way. I would gladly buy another if anything were to happen to it... but I probably would *not* buy it from Amazon.

An aside: for folks who are looking to take the plunge into OS X... it really is wonderful. I've been a Windows / DOS user (at work and on my primary home computer) for fifteen years or so, have been increasingly turning to Linux for my alternative computing needs for the past eight years, and upon trying Mac OS X was utterly astonished by how simple and effective an OS can be. Things *just work*. It blows away Windows AND the three or four comparable mainstream Linux distros that I've tried in the past year (with the exception of Ubuntu). It's definitely something to write home about.