AppleInsider talked to people familiar with a project at Apple to produce a smaller MacBook. It will most likely not include an optical drive but will feature onboard NAND flash for zippy boot times. No word yet on what it will look like; it would be great if it had the casing of a MacBook Pro. I do believe this is the 12-inch beauty we’ve all been waiting for.. so long as it doesn’t randomly shutdown.
In other news, my friend Dimitry is moving to California to work for Yahoo! full-time. Also, I should have something interesting to review tomorrow, assuming UPS doesn’t let me down as it usually does.
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That would be awesome. Hey Paul, did you see my question about the MacBook vs. MacBook Pro on the 15.4 MacBook post? Just curious as no one has replied to it yet. Thanks again for all you do and the great info.
@Rusty – regarding your comment, a regular MacBook will easily be able to do everything that you want to do.. I’ve used my MacBook with many of those tasks before. However, if that is going to be your primary computer, I think you should take a look at the MacBook Pro because of resolution. The 13.3-inch MacBook has a resolution of 1280×800 and that 800 gets rather annoying. Get 1GB of RAM at least regardless of which system you opt for. Depending on how much video you keep on your hard drive, the MacBook Pro’s optional 120GB hard drive might also be worth it.
If one does come out, I must resist the temptation of becoming a rev. A adopter. I learned my lesson with this MacBook.
ditto.
the latest core2 duo macbooks (black version) have 120 GB hard drives.
thanks for the info twerkolator – i only remember from when I got my MacBook CD over the summer and they only had a max of 80GB.. or maybe that was just the default configuration.
no problem. when i’m able to afford a new mac the 120GB will be a godsend for me. i produce music and the sound libraries for native instruments’ komplete 4 bundle are 50GB alone!!!
i will rejoice at not having to keep the sounds on an external hard drive. my powerbook g4 12″ is down to about 600MB! i bought it new in ‘03 with a 40GB hard drive…
The duo macbooks have a pretty quick startup time compared with the average windows-based laptop, but do not have the hibernate feature that allows even the otherwise slow windows systems to give pretty quick startup times. While putting a laptop or macbook into sleep mode is OK in some situations, it is not a good strategy when you are running on bettery power.
Anything Apple could do to get basic startup to happen in 5 seconds or less would allow a portable mac compete with an “always on” PDA type device.
I just hope they don’t copy the design of the Sony mini laptop I saw over the weekend – the keyboard was too small to type on with 10 fingers but too large to operate like a Blackberry with 2 thumbs.
Thanks for the mention Paul! I didn’t have my computer since Wednesday, so have been disconnected from the world (in other words: used old PC).
My fans stopped working in MBP… Weird!
Dimitry