Aluminum MacBook Review- 5 Months Later

hey guys, I've had quite a few people ask me how my MacBook is doing, and I figured I'd give you all an update about it... sorry if it seems a little edit-heavy, but I filmed this during my break between classes and had a lot of other things on my mind. let me know if you have any comments/questions and I'll do my best to get back to you asap... as always, thanks for watching, and feel free to subscribe/add me as a friend if you enjoy my content.
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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• apple
• aluminum
• aluminium
• macbook
• 2.4
• ghz
• intel
• core
• duo
• magsafe
• isight
• multi
• touch
• superdrive
• backlight

[Sheppardgraphics]

Hey dude, will this spec macbook run photoshop, flash and dreamweaver? I am considering getting one but am unsure!

[callmejosiah]

yes, the 2.4GHz MacBook should be more than capable of running those apps with just a stock config (i.e. with 2GB of RAM), though you may want to eventually upgrade to a 7200rpm HDD and 4GB of RAM for optimal performance.

[p14y4]

anyone know what the resolution on the isight camera is?

[callmejosiah]

the iSight's recording resolution is 640x480...

[ltwum001]

cool video...but about the trackpad, if the clicking noise gets on your nerves you can just go into system preferences and change it so that all you have to do is just tap the trackpad instead of clicking on it...ive had mine on that setting since like december and i love it.

[callmejosiah]

that's a good point, I actually do have tapping enabled, but for some reason I still prefer a physical click over it... thanks for the tip!

[AndyPFTW]

Is the mic for it good with loud noise?

[josp182]

hey man, nice review i was wondering if you could help me, or anyone for that matter lol. I want to get a mac but not sure what to get, its either a macbook pro 13 or the imac 21 inch. Im having trouble deciding. I do a lot of designing and i really want to get into video editing for my snowboarding etc etc. Would the macbook pro be enough to cope with such programes as photoshop and be powerful enough for my video editing?? also how do you find the small screen??

[bregowine]

Mine has almost 8 months of use and the only complaints I have are:

- It has lost some of the magnetism (I think)... It opens very easy... I don't know if it's normal.

-The speakers make some "crunchy" noise when the volume is high

[nabatron21]

how is yur battery latch cover doing ive seen many people on youtube complaing on the poor design meaning at first is good but later starts to loosen and pretty much turn to crap just wondering how yurs is doing and if u seen any problems with it.....ive since seen what people were talking about since my battery latch is loosening abit aswell wondering if there is somethin apple covers or not? would like to here yur opinion on this man! thanks

[love2love09]

This was very informative. Its good knowing that the new macbook still has solid reviews months after. It makes me more excited for today where I will be purchasing my first mac!

[jareddisco]

u're actually pretty geeky hot. lol. anyway, i'm dying to get one right now, and where i'm staying, they have an offer - buy a Mac and get a 365sgd rebate on an ipod touch!! i.e. to say only 23sgd for the 8gb one. hhahaa....i'm sooo getting one!!!

[DetroitBORG]

I turned on "Tap to Click" to avoid clicking the track pad. I too hate clicing track pads or track pad buttons, although I didn't find it noisy or obnoxious.

The best feature of any MacBook is the Multi-Touch trackpad, This is the feature which can sell the computer IMO.

[ej6060]

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[jamalkemal]

haha!really?post it..i wanna know!

[eltreb]

I think you actually set that up during the initial setup but to change it go to - System Preferences>Accounts (under the System tab) and change the user name, if this doesn't do it I'm not how to. Hope this helps.