Blogs and Blogging: MacBook

On the users side, the Mac's OS X is relatively easy to use. The addition of new features in the latest Leopard release -- such as the slick Time Machine backup utility and Spaces, which lets users create multiple, task-centric virtual desktops -- only serves to burnish that reputation.

And Macs are considered more stable than Windows, with fewer spyware and virus problems, which translate into fewer help desk calls.

But that's not what has IT's attention.

The surge of interest in the Mac is a direct result of two developments from 2006: first, the evolution of more Windows-friendly, Intel X86-based Macs, and second, the introduction of Boot Camp, which allows a full Windows environment and its complement of applications to run natively in a separate hard drive partition on any Mac.

Boot Camp, in particular, garnered a lot of attention out the gate. According to Apple, 1.5 million copies of the beta version of Boot Camp were downloaded before the program's release as part of the Leopard version of OS X. The full integration of Boot Camp into Leopard has spurred some IT managers to actively review the potential of OS X as an alternative for general business computing.
So I put up a simple survey on the side bar of this blog just to know how popular the Mac family in the whole known universe of Computing which I in my own capacity is unaware of, so have your say on this.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The MacBook is a Macintosh notebook computer by Apple Inc. that replaced the iBook G4 series and the 12" PowerBook G4. It is a part of the MacBook family.

The original MacBook was released on May 16, 2006 and utilised the Intel 945GM chipset and the Intel Core Duo processor. Some of these early MacBooks had problems with "random shut downs". According to Apple, software and firmware updates have solved the issue.

The latest update to the MacBook line occurred on November 1, 2007. It utilises the Core 2 Duo processor and the GM965 chipset, which runs a 800 MHz front-side bus and Intel's X3100 integrated graphics.And the newest addition to the MacBook line is the recently unvieled MacBook Air wich was introduced during the Macworld Expo on the 15th of this Month.
The MacBook Air features a silvery aluminum casing which is fully recyclable, Greenpeace would be happy about that since Apple have frequently been in the crosshair with this environtmental group and added to that the CEO Steve Jobs explained further that it is "the first" to have a mercury-free display with arsenic-free glass, another points for them fom Greenpeace huh!

Aside from this new addition to the MacBook family also features a 1.8-inch hard disk drive with 80 GB of storage capacity standard. A 64GB SSD drive is optional. The hard drive is a PATA model at 4200rpm. It is powered by Intel Core 2 Dou chip at a speed of 1.6GHz, with 1.8GHz available optionally. The Intel chip operates with 4MB of on-chip shared L2 cache running at full speed, and utilizes an 800MHz frontside bus. A 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM included.

Like its predecessor, the MacBook and the MacBook Pro, the Air features a slimmed down Mag Safe connector for power with 45 watt power adapter.802.11n-based wireless networking support and Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR included.

Lastly this new member of the MacBook family is small enough to fit inside an interoffice mailing envelope.

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