Product Description

With Intel Core 2 Duo processing power, you'll be amazed at what your MacBook can do--and at how fast it can do it. Its 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display lets you see your photos, movies, websites, and documents with incredible clarity. A built-in iSight camera gives you hassle-free video chatting,(1) while Front Row and the Apple Remote make it simple to navigate your digital media from across the room. At just 1.08 inches thin and barely over 5 pounds,(2) the versatile and portable MacBook puts a world of advanced features within your reach.
1 Video chatting requires broadband Internet connection; fees may apply.
2 Weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #704 in Personal Computers
• Color: MA699LL/A 1.83 GHz White
• Brand: Apple
• Model: MA699LL/A
• CPU: Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz
• Memory: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM
• Hard Disk: 60GB
• Processors: 2
• Display size: 13.3

Features

• 1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 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 Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/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

From the Manufacturer
MacBook delivers the power of the Intel Core 2 Duo -- the latest generation of Intel processors -- and a slew of innovative features, including: a built-in iSight camera for video chatting on the go; iLife '06; Front Row; a glossy 13-inch widescreen display; even dual-display support.

Better bang-to-buck ratio
The most advanced and affordable Mac notebook ever gives you a blazingly fast mobile architecture in a beautiful design that costs less than slower, clunkier models. It's like getting a sports car for the price of a scooter. Talk about performance, MacBook's powered with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with speeds revving up to 2.0 GHz.

Front Row lets you navigate your movies, music, photos, and more at the touch of the included Apple Remote--no matter where you roam.

Pack more punch
In bright white or sleek black, MacBook supports up to 2 GB of memory and plenty of storage. Standard models offer up to 120 GB of hard drive space, but if you haul a lot of data around, you can order your MacBook with up to 200 GB of storage. That's not all. MacBook keeps you untethered courtesy of built-in Bluetooth and AirPort Extreme (802.11g). A 6x double-layer-burning SuperDrive -- standard equipment on the 2.0 GHz models -- not only lets you burn DVDs faster but lets you burn capacious double-layer media. And those 2.0 GHz models pack 4 MB of shared L2 cache, which helps deliver a 6x leap in performance over the iBook or PowerBook before them.(1)

Friends for iLife
Every MacBook comes with iLife '06 -- an amazing suite of applications that make it easy to live the digital life. Use iPhoto to share entire high-res photo albums with anyone who's got an e-mail address. Record your own songs and podcasts with GarageBand. Break into indie filmmaking with iMovie HD and iDVD. Then take all the stuff you made on your MacBook and share it on the web in one click with iWeb.(2) Just turn on your MacBook and you're halfway there.

All smiles
Look closely. See that little lens in the display bezel? That's the built-in iSight camera. Use it to video chat simply by opening iChat AV and clicking a buddy icon (or three). Or fire up Photo Booth and take a few snapshots with the iSight, play around with 16 fun effects, then admire your handiwork. That little camera lets you create web-ready videos, too. Just open up iMovie and start the action. From there, iWeb makes it one-click easy to get your talking head on the web.(2) Looks like fun.

Take it on tour
MacBook also features Front Row, so you can navigate your movies, music, photos, and more at the touch of the included Apple Remote -- no matter where you roam. Give an impromptu vacation photo slideshow in your favorite café. Screen your latest iMovie creation on the train. Watch a DVD in bed. MacBook and Front Row give you the best seat in the house (or out of it).

Positively brilliant
Thanks to a 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display, MacBook provides the perfect combination of pixels and portability. Photos feel crisper. Movies play vividly. Even daily tasks like surfing the web and checking e-mail take on a whole new sheen.

Hit the hot spots
The built-in wireless capability of MacBook puts the "world" back in "World Wide Web." If there's a wireless hot spot nearby, you can get online. No need to waste valuable surfing time configuring your computer. Just open it up. MacBook automatically detects wireless networks within range and asks nicely if you'd like to join any of them. That's it. Catch up on your blog, share this weekend's trip as a Photocast, or just chat with your friends. Anytime, anywhere.

What's in the box
MacBook; Apple Remote; 60W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug, and power cord; lithium-polymer battery; install/restore DVDs; printed and electronic documentation.

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.