I'm envious. I'm the proud owner of a 12" PowerBook, and I still lust after these things. I am actually very surprised they managed to pull that off; I was under the (wishful) assumption that the new Intel based Mac laptops would be nothing special.
An iSight camera is built directly in to the MacBook. Sick.
The new power cord for the MacBook is magnetic, meaning if you "trip" over the cord it will unlatch without taking the MacBook with it. Classy.
There's a new logo for "Universal" apps. Something I probably don't have to worry about yet.
From a design perspective the case is nothing revolutionary, it just looks like a 15" PowerBook. It's the innards that are insane-o here.
Although, there is this sidenote from Daring Fireball:
[Sidenote: Even though they’re using the same case designs for the new Intel-based Macs, neither the iMac G5 nor 15-inch PowerBook have been discontinued — the new iMacs (which are apparently just named “iMacâ€, not “iMac Core Duo†or anything like that) and MacBook Pros (which name is terrible — I mean just horrible, like some crappy Mac accounting software from 1987) are being sold alongside the PowerPC models, not replacing them. Not yet, of course. My guess is that this means Rosetta is fairly slow, and that anyone who still depends on non-universal-binary apps is going to want a PowerPC machine for the time being. We’ll find out soon enough what real-world Rosetta performance is like.]
Agreed, we'll see how that goes. One thing that would stop me from picking one up (other than my newish beloved 12" PB, and cold hard cash) is that these are first-gen products. Sometimes Apple can hit it out of the park with first-gen products, and sometimes it's a miss.
Example: the first-gen iBook is invincible, while the first-gen Nano scratches if you look at it funny.
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