It has all the features of a computer, and is capable of doing the same tasks, only that it is much smaller and lighter. So it is highly portable, meaning that you can take it anywhere you want with you. There are many producers of notebooks and some of the best names are: HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, MSI, Fujitsu and Apple.
Today we’ll focus on just one of these companies, and we’ll choose Apple. It is a big multinational company that offers a lot of cool electronic devices and software products, such as: the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, the iMac computer, the MacBook , the Mac OS X operating system or the iTunes Store. Today we’ll discuss about the laptop offered by Apple, which is the MacBook. There are actually three different series of Apple notebooks : the MacBook, the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air, each of these series with one or many models available.
Today we’ll discuss about the simple version of MacBook with a 2.26 GHz processor and a 13 inch display screen. It is a cool looking laptop, made with a unibody design. It has just 1.08 inches thin and a weight of just 4.7 pounds meaning that it is highly portable and you can use it anytime you need and anywhere you go. But even though it is small and light, this doesn’t mean that it is not resistant, and thanks to the materials it is quite tough. It comes with a 13.3 inch LED backlit widescreen display which will offer you great colors and a good movie experience. It supports a resolution of up to 1280 x 800 pixels.
As you can see it has a full size keyboard (all the keys except the numeric ones) and the keys are curved to contain your fingers and to give a comfortable writing experience. And below the keyboard you will find the Multi Touch trackpad (which has the role of the mouse). But as you can see, it doesn’t have any buttons like a regular TouchPad, and it has a special technology which allows you to click anywhere on the pad. you can also use the right-click function, two finger scroll and it even has special features such as: pinch to increase the font size in a document, rotate your fingers to reorient pictures or swipe to navigate through internet pages.
On one of the sides of the laptop you will find most of the ports you need such as: MagSafe power, Gigabit Ethernet, Mini Display Port, USB, and audio in/out. Since they are all on the same side (and not some on the left side and others on the right) it means that your cables will stay well organized and it will be really easy for you to connect or disconnect all of the cables. The MacBook has dimensions of: Height - 1.08 inches (2.74 cm), Width: 13.00 inches (33.03 cm), Depth: 9.12 inches (23.17 cm) and a weight of 4.7 pounds (2.13 kg).
But enough with the exterior, let’s see what it has inside. And now here are the technical details for the MacBook laptop:
- Processor - 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 3 MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed, 1066 MHz frontside bus
- Memory – 2 GB (two 1 GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066 MHz DDR 3 SD RAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4 GB
- Hard drive – 250 GB 5400 rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive; optional 320 GB or 500 GB 5400 rpm drive
- Optical drive - 8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD ± R DL/ DVD ± RW/
CD-RW) - Graphics engine - NVIDIA GeForce 9400 M graphics processor with 256 MB of DDR 3 SD RAM shared with main memory
- Battery - Built-in 60 watt-hour lithium-polymer, 7 hour battery
- Polycarbonate unibody enclosure
Electrical and operating requirements
- Line voltage: 100 V to 240 V AC
- Frequency: 50 Hz to 60 Hz
- Operating temperature: 50 ° to 95 ° F (10 ° to 35 ° C)
- Storage temperature: -13 ° to 113 ° F (-24 ° to 45 ° C)
- Relative humidity: 0% to 90% noncondensing
- Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet
- Maximum storage altitude: 15,000 feet
- Maximum shipping altitude: 35,000 feet
Audio
- Built-in stereo speakers
- Built-in omnidirectional microphone
- Combined optical digital output/headphone out (user-selectable analog audio line in)
- Supports Apple Stereo Headset with microphone
Communications
Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking.2; IEEE 802.11 a/b/g compatible
Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) wireless technology
Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)