Oct 25

MacBook Problems, Reloaded

Remember the greatest problem of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks from Apple? If you don't, then let me give you just these two words to think about: NO FIREWIRE! The good part is that Steve Jobs himself answered a user enquiry about this move, but now I just read a very interesting report of a fact that's not so easy to justify, since we're talking by a serious quality drop, and not just dumping a certain feature...

In this TechSpot posting, Julio Franco brought into light a matter only some of those seeing the new MacBook managed to notice before buying the thing. The problem is we're

talking about a problem that's going to make you curse the day when you spent over $1000 for a new MacBook that proves to have an issue only low-end Windows notebooks have, and not even all of those, if I think well about it. But...what kind of problem?

I know you're not crazy about clicking links and reading looong articles - I am not that way, either, so let's make this story short - the MacBook problems now include the screen, the smaller 13.3-inch screen that is also LED illuminated, just like the one of the MacBook Pro. OK, so it's smaller, but I guess it should have the same image quality, right?

If you look at the images above, you'll surely notice the huge difference - the new MacBook Pro is to the left, and the MacBook is the one to the right. Need I say anything else?

The conclusion is this - just as I expected, Apple sacrificed some things to lower the price of its notebooks. Unfortunately, with a price tag over $1000, the new MacBook can't be considered a "budget" notebook, but it surely comes with some "budget features."

As usual, your comments are expected to drop below, especially since I would really want to hear what's the opinion of someone who managed to see the new MacBook in action. Anyone here?