My MacBook arrived today

As you may have heard, last month Apple announced the MacBook. I’ve been using a PowerBook for quite a while as a testing machine at work, but decided it was time to upgrade.

I ended up ordering a black MacBook, and it arrived today. What a beautiful machine it is. Here are its specs:

• 13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 × 800 display with 250 cd/m2 brightness;
• 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor;
• 667 MHz front-side bus;
• 512MB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB (I upgraded to 2GB);
• 80GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor (I upgraded to 120GB);
• a slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive;
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950;
• Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately);
• built-in iSight video camera;
• Gigabit Ethernet port;
• built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
• two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 port;
• one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
• Scrolling TrackPad;
• the infrared Apple Remote; and
• 60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.

Now that it’s Intel-based, I hope to one day run Windows and OS X simultaneously on it. That would certainly help consolidate my collection of hardware.

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