These are photos of my MacBook that I am selling on Craigslist. I didn’t want to have to place the photos on the site, but this was the only way to get them out there for potential buyers. If you’re interested, you can find the ad here. It’s a great system and performs outstandingly, and I trust that the system will be a great asset for anyone interested in purchasing a MacBook.

Click the photos to enlarge.

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I’ll be updating today as we get more information as many of you know we’re waiting for the unveiling of an update to the Macbook Line.

 
If you check the apple store you’ll see that it’s currently down:

Pre-Conference Rumors and pictures here at apple insider.

Update picture from engadget

Gizmodo has a live feed of this as well.
Pic from Gizmodo:

Apple outgrew the market for 14 months, 17% Market Share now.

Verification notebooks are made from a solid piece of aluminum now. Start with 2.5LB piece of metal end up with a quarter pounder with cheese.  er 1/3 Lb notebook base.

Now on to the nVidia chipset stuff.

GeForce 9400M - pretty fast… 3x to 8x performance increase

Whoa, multi-touch glass touchpad.

There is no button?! The buttons are setup in the software for customization, that is strange.

Run Down of Features:

Glass TouchPad
All aluminum
Connectors all on one side
Thinner Display
KB buttons are backlit
LED - Backlit display - less battery power
Magnetic latch
Sudden motion sensor
isight/mic (usual)
Mini display port that drives any type of connector with an adapter (sold separately of course…)
5 hours of battery life when using the Nvidia 9400 4 on the 9600 

Price Points:

Macbook Pro: 
15.4 Inch $1999 2.4 GHZ 2GB RAM
15.4 Inch $2499 4GB RAM

Update to the MacBook Air - new Nvidia 9400M 120GB drive, 128GB SSD and a Mini display port.

24″ Cinema Display LED
3 connectors
1920×1200 Resolution
$899 (I can buy a 24″ Benq display for $400. )

$999 for entry level macbook. 
$1299 Better stuff
$1599 the bestest
New Macbook Aluminum Body
LED- Backlit
Nvidia Graphics
Multi-Touch Glass touchpad
Mini-Display Port

3d gaming on a Macbook is now possible - meaning you can get reasonable performance out of these things now.

Ok www.apple.com and check out the videos.

I’ve written before about how they took care of me only after a run around for a couple of freaking screws. I’ve long held the belief that their store support was far superior to the support you get on the phone and the same holds true today after I picked up my out of warranty MacBook.

The corner palmrest of my MacBook had gradually cracked in a tiny area on the right hand side.  Search google and you’ll get over 2,000 results for cracked palmrests and most of it is on the right side, right where the palmrest meets the base of the unit.  I had super-glued the thing back to hold it but since I was out of warranty I figured I would just have to live with it.   That was until I was growing tired of it rubbing on my wrists, cause you know if I wanted to slit my wrists I could think of far better ways to do it…

Anyway I read that many people have recieved the problem only months after buying their macbooks and that others ended up not having the problem until a year or so later because they didn’t use it as much or baby’d it.  I fell in the later, I use my MacBook just about every day but I’m also very protective over it.   Many online stated that they got the palmrest replaced even though they were no longer under warranty because of it being a manufacturing defect/saftey hazard type of thing.  So I called support.

No help there aside from asking me to go into the Apple store and that most likley they’d replace it.  So I did.  I drove up to the Domain store here in Austin, after making an appointment with a Genius.  Useful Tip: Watch your name up on the board behind the Genius Bar. You should see it, and you’ll notice that they call out people, I was there listening and watching their every move and they never called my name, but one minute my name was on the board, the next it wasn’t.  I walked up and the guy said, “Well someone just canceled it.”  “Uh no… how could I cancel it, I’ve been standing here for 20 minutes..”

Long story short, he took my MacBook, promised it the next day (today) had me sign the “we’re not responsible for data loss” waiver and low and behold I got a my MacBook back today, no charge, new palmrest/keyboard/trackpad.

That is two times that, while I had to make  a total of 4 physical trips, the Domain Apple Store took care of me,  and regaurdless of the total shitty phone support, will continue to keep me as a loyal customer.

This was originally an 800-word-plus article on intelligent design. I had given it great thought, depth and had considered my words carefully.

It is now a 185-word article on me hating this goddamned Macbook. See, as I finished typing up the article in Wordpress my Macbook’s touchpad decided it would act on its own and erase every single fucking word I had written.

EVERY. FUCKING. WORD.

When I then tried to pull up the draft I had written that had been saved, Wordpress then decided that it would save the now-deleted article as it was. That was the letter “t.”

Apple, I’m THIS FUCKING CLOSE to putting this thing up for sale and getting rid of your precious OS and system and buying a notebook that has an OS that DOESN’T give me grief. I had worked on that article for ALMOST TWO HOURS before your shitty touchpad decided to take a dump on me- again. If this kind of shit keeps happening, I’m gonna need a reason why I shouldn’t drop-kick this baby onto eBay and get my money back.

Fucking Mac OS.

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