Apple MacBook
The Apple Macbook is a popular new type of laptop personal computer offered by Apple. It provides the ease of use that is commonly associated with Apple computers, in a sleek iPod like attractive housing. It was released in 2006, and replaced the last of the Apple PowerBook series. An Apple Macbook has a built in webcam, making it ready to go out of the box for taking photos and for video applications on the web. This is one of its most extolled features, as webcams ordinarily are installed as add on peripherals for computers and require some computer knowledge to install. The Apple Macbook is marketed in large part to new computer users, but also to users who are students or home users and do not want to have to worry about technical details, but just be able to perform the multimedia tasks that they are interested in without difficulty in installation.
Compared to the earlier models in the Apple PowerBook series, the Apple Macbook is lighter, thinner and easier to take apart. New components can be installed much easier than with the original PowerBook series, with panels opening on the bottom of the computer making it easy to access the extra RAM slots and the hard drive. Unlike the PowerBook series, though, the keyboard is effectively set into the case, making it difficult or impossible to replace. The Apple Macbook series of laptop computers is not quite as good as other brands of laptop for high speed three dimensional computer games, as Apple has opted to go with Intel integrated graphic chips instead of the more common three dimensional acceleration options from ATI or nVidia as a cost cutting measure.
The Apple Macbook is available from around a thousand dollars, and if you go online to an auction site like eBay or are willing to buy a used model you can probably get one for a whole lot less, somewhere in the range of several hundred dollars. If you have simple home computer needs and want to be able to share videos and multimedia easily without a lot of technical knowledge being necessary, the Apple Macbook is probably a good deal, and its price point makes it affordable to many students and home users.
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