A previous model MacBook. If you are looking to save some $$$, consider this.

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Product Details

• Brand: Apple

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Customer Reviews

Insane bang for the buck
I was searching for a laptop to replace my old Compaq, which had motherboard problems, and decided to opt for this Mac. I had always wanted a Mac, and wondered if this bottom-of-the-range laptop would be a good choice for the money I'd be spending.

As it wound up, this is a fantastic laptop. For something at the bottom end of performance and amenities (tiny hard drive, not much RAM for any OS you could throw at it), the performance was very snappy. Upgrading the memory (maxed out at 2 GB) made this laptop just simply fly. The battery life was something else too -- three-and-a-half hours, easily, and that's true even today, more than a year after I bought the thing. And that's with Wi-Fi on.

The speakers only have mediocre sound quality, but a good pair of headphones solves that "tout de suite," I'm happy to say. Multitasking on this box is exhilarating; I can run Xcode, iTunes, Opera, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, and pretty much any other app I can throw at it at the same time, and there's no perceptible slowdown. It's a very fast machine, and one I highly recommend.

And if it turns out that your Mac OS experience isn't what you thought it'd be, you can also turn this into a superb Windows machine or Linux laptop.

Black mac makes me the mack.
I already used the Macbook Pro for over a year now and I picked this up for my wife to replace her older laptop. After testing it out for a month already, I do recommend this laptop.

For close to half the price of the Macbook Pro, it includes a lot of the features: great build quality, simple and elegant looks, and blazingly fast performance. It also would be the choice mac for people on the go as it does have better battery life and a smaller form factor.

Definitely, I would have liked a few things: 2GB of RAM would be on par with similar PC models and the monitor adaptor should have been included in the box rather than charging $20 as an accessory. I think for the extra money spent on the black finish, these extra's should have been included.

Aside from that, my wife loves the lappy which is the most important thing for me!

Totally happy with my forst Mac
Great machine and Mac/OS es another world far better than windows. This notebook has 2 weak points in my view:
1) It doesn't offer descent speakers. So if you work with video and you need to play something in a presentation you will have a hard time because the volume is really low.
2) Black color is great, but it gets dirty quite easily. You need to polish the computer daily in order not to look like a pig or lear to live with it as a pig with all your fingerprints over the pearl black color of your mac.