MacBook Aluminium review (2.4ghz)

[luismartinvg]

just buy another hard drive or the aiport express so u just can send it to it cables free...nice video tho.

[hibry276]

yeah there is an apple store online in mexico....it little expensive but i guess is better than go to another store because the customer service really sucks!!!!

[karatekid600]

where can i get a chip mac book from ?

[hibry276]

hey is there any way to get a mac form USA to mexico? saludos!!

[sirmasterpimp]

I'm sure there is a way to order it online. I'm also pretty sure there has to be an apple store in Mexico, There are plenty of Mexican natives with videos of their new macbooks all over youtube.

[Dominonator]

Why don't you just get an external hard drive? You can get 1 TB for as little as $100-170 USD on Amazon!!

[KingReMO2]

Good idea. Or you can just buy an internal HD for even less. It's so easy to install the HDD in the new Macbook. You're basically paying for a $300 nightlight. Though... it is shiny and pretty all lit up. *shrugs*

[AppleOfGlasgow]

Takes away from the portability and is inconvenient, 1TB drives usually need another power source.

[thatsnazzyappleguy]

@Dominonator $170 for a 1 TB is expensive. you can get an external 1 TB for about $80- $100 at micro center

[BigJoe2711]

MicroCentre????? WTF????? You mean Apple Store? That's one nice Laptop :)

[sirmasterpimp]

No, I didn't go to the apple store, I went to a small regional electronics store by me which is licensed to sell apple products.Your right that it is one kick ass laptop though :)

[BigJoe2711]

Oh okay, fair enough.. I'm getting a MacBook Pro soon, awesome :)

[willichirazz]

why is not in the bestbuy website store?

[thatsnazzyappleguy]

@sirmasterpimp i love micro center

[jaredwfs23]

i love the starting music, what is it?

[sirmasterpimp]

Its a intro track that comes on every new mac with i movie........honestly that is the entire song, lol

[DaDudez14]

haha nice!

[tarabiru]

wwoooowwhooo you sure love... music :)

[DaDudez14]

dude 100 gbs of songs!? i bet you don't listen to even 1,000 of them! haha whats having that many songs unless you are in the business even then it's still questionable! nice vid tho

[sirmasterpimp]

I actually do listen to about 500 on a daily basis (on my ipod) and the rest I created play lists for on my computer.

[avdude94]

yeah, 100Gbs of MUSIC? That's like 50 million songs, no joke.

[sirmasterpimp]

not really, most of my songs are 320k bit rate mp3's and along with them are tons of pod casts and music videos (i cant even sync half of them to my ipod or zune) I keep them on a 500gb external drive

[halahala321]

thats a lot of music dude

[arsenakfreakguy]

WOW!! 100GB of music?? :D

[Macinabit]

Ho do you edit videos on this if your camera has a firewire 800 output??? you can't use USB as it's to slow. I have a Mac book pro 17" and edit with Final cut pro a lot and this put me off big time.

[sirmasterpimp]

I don't really edit videos on my macbook anymore since I got a new camera and adobe software for my windows machine. I don't like the loss of the firewire connections either. My guess is that apple didn't want to really make this a 13.3" macbook pro, so they took away the mini dvi and firewire connectors to distinguish between the two. The new macbook still rocks with the nvidia 9400m, but still cant compare to a MBP for more intense stuff like graphical design and video editing.

[Ezalian]

The right side of my macbook's magnet latch is not strong enough... is it normal?? does other people has this problem too?

[Glocksocoms]

Good post.

[freeskier93]

I hope your didn't have to pay for a new computer or cost to fix the graphics card. Apple will take it back and give you a new computer for free, unless you bought if from somewhere else and has a different warranty.

[Ahridium777]

sirmasterpimp just wanna say you are cool, respect! i have macbook white 2.4ghz 4gb 667mhz ram, 250gb hdd 5400rpm, i have also a external box combo 4 terra bytes and works fantastic. i would not use this with the battery for sure;), just plug my current on, greetz

[nafis123456789afsar]

they r sikk put cost 2much u no were i can get a cheap 1 thnx

[akaYu07]

I bet you will never put a 1 TB harddrive in there, it will suck you battery dry quicker than you can say "I love Apple" :D

Why don´t you buy an external drive? I know that it is not the same comfort. But for example you do not always need all your music/videos or pictures stored directly on your mac.

[sirmasterpimp]

I have an external 500gb drive and im pretty satisfied with the 250 gb hard drive in the macbook for now. They make up to 500 gb internal drives for laptops now, it all depends on how fast they spin (5400 rpm or 7200 rpm) which will gauge how much battery they eat.

[akaYu07]

There are still differences, just have a look at the blue version of Western Digital HDDs.

[curseknight5]

well im a gamer and i would use boot camp for vista but how many gb should i put? i would use the vista for games and i would download limewire kinda thing

[LtCaptain]

Why didn't you just get a larger hard drive for your 2.0ghz? Either way, the better processor will definitely be better for video editing- so good call either way!

[KungFuGripped4E]

thanks so much!

[KungFuGripped4E]

if i have 1.24GB of music which one should i get?

[sirmasterpimp]

Really for that small amount of music it doesn't matter if you get the 2.4 or 2.0 (I have 15gb of music..6gb of videos). If your just looking for something to surf the internet and less demanding tasks, go for the 2.0....but if you do gaming, plan on running photoshop or want a bigger hard drive/faster processor, go for the 2.4.

[defrankond]

did you ever get your toshiba back?

[sirmasterpimp]

Yep, haven't been able to test it though, because I had it sent to my mothers house....I'll probably have a vid up of it tomorrow when I go buy the house.

[tipoomaster]

does the 2.4 GHz macbook get the same battery life as the 2 GHz one? as far as i know they both use the same 45WHr battery, so it seems that logicaly the 2.4 GHz model would have a reduced battery life.

[sirmasterpimp]

They use the same exact battery and i did notice about a 30 minute difference in battery life from the base 2.0 and the higher 2.4 ghz model. The up side is that I get like 5 hours and 25 minutes from my 2.4 when just browsing the internet....about 4 hours 30, when I'm using i tunes and other applications. the lowest I've gotten is 2 and a half hours when I was purposely maxing out the cpu.

[jamal93yall]

hey!!!! lol at the beggining that song was da jamm!!! lol

[LUK3A114N]

Just go buy an external hard drive you can get them up to 1T I'm pretty sure, their cheap, and all you do is plug tem into your mac (2.00 USB port).

[emado90]

hwo long keeb on battre

my macbook only 2 hour

macbook aluminium 2.4

[sirmasterpimp]

I get about 4.5 to 4 hours depending on what im doing...the battery last all day between classes.

[neosurrealist]

3 hours playing call of duty 4, I have the same one, and I get 4 hours using photoshop in osx, over 5 hours surfing, and watching youtube.

In windows XP however, I get 1.5 hours surfing, and 45 minutes of left4dead.

[MadBoyAstro]

you could have replaced the internal hard drive in the MacBook 2.0GHz instead of getting a new one. You could get a 500GB hard drive and install it VERY easily because of the new design. Just a pointer.

[zaiivonhest]

100 of gb music its a lot!!!!

[andyschannel17]

By the way the keys on the 2.4ghz model look lighter because they have to be somewhat transparent so that the backlight will shine through them.

[sirmasterpimp]

yea, but the keys still attract way too much grease(even if hands are clean). If mac would use the same key material as found on the toshiba x205, they would never hear complaints about the keyboard. I actually use my toshiba with greasy hands, but they seem to resist the grease very well.

[andyschannel17]

You can get a 500gb hard drive for it from ebay for about $130

[mindphlux]

hey you forgot to mention that it's got double the ram, and that's a pretty big difference.

[techietriumph]

i really like this song and i really would love to have it..may i know what it is?

[sirmasterpimp]

That was the whole song, it only lasted about 5 seconds, because it was created as an intro for I movie. Wish it were a real song too, lol

[techietriumph]

oo lol ok thx

[ZioZambe]

Music goes to an external drive!

[sirmasterpimp]

That wouldn't be sensible in my case, because I primarily use this laptop on the go. I already have a gaming laptop hooked up to a 500gb external drive for music and videos when Im at home.

[eddie14886]

i like the intro song :D

[davvenordin]

hey is there a lot of difference between the 2.0ghz and the 2.4ghz???!!

I consider buying the 2.0 and upgrading the DDR3 Memory to 4 GB(instead of 2) and probably also upgrade the hard drive.

I mean - the Backlit Keyboard(only on 2.4ghz) can't be THAT super necessary...

[sirmasterpimp]

Nope, I barely notice the difference between the two. The applications seemingly run at the same speed two. Only time you can tell the difference between the 2.0ghz and the 2.4ghz is when the keyboard lights up at night (like you said, not necessary, but a nice addition). I also noticed that the battery life is about 30 min better on the 2.0 (4 1/2 hours), than the 2.4 (4 hours).

[davvenordin]

okay thanks.

so my consideration might be the best after all then(and still cheaper) - because I might play some of the latest pc games on it.

apple is the MAN!

thanks.

[zoutochni]

Yea but the more expensive one has a faster processor plus the backlit keyboard is AMAZING believe me ;)...if u can get the other one ...u wont regret it

[freeskier93]

What the point of the backlight keyboard? The light from the screen is bright enough for you to see the keys and plus the F and J keys have the little notches so you can feel where to put your hands. It would only be a good feature if you don't know how to type properly and have to look at the keyboard as you type.

[zoutochni]

clearly you havent tried it...believe me it makes a difference !! Plus its so pretty!!

[arsenakfreakguy]

well some people do... that's why they did that and you said it yourself... why are you questioning yourself?

[ToBeTie]

Why didn't you buy a bigger harddrive immediately? That's just stupid...

[sirmasterpimp]

Wasn't just the hard drive, I also needed the 2.4ghz processor to run my video editing software faster. I still plan on upgrading the hard drive soon though.

[ChrisFromJersey]

im getting this laptop this week and ill be upgrading to a 500GB hard drive sometime this month hopefully