This has become my 'tool of the trade' for 2007. I purchased the computer November 2006.
Mac and I got off to a very rocky start. Within three weeks the computer broke down with a defective hard drive. I was puzzled that the computer had a scratch on it when I purchased it and was given $30.00 off for the blemish. When I took the computer in on warranty I discovered that this was the second time the hard drive had failed on that machine. I had purchased a 'repack' that had been returned on warranty prior to my purchase. I was upset for not having been told I'd purchased a used computer and to make good the store gave me a new one off the shelf as a replacement.
Six weeks later the new computer died. I took it back in. This time they sent it across Canada for warranty repairs. It was gone for nearly eight weeks. When it finally returned I discovered the hard drive had failed and the logic board had suffered a meltdown.
Three hard drives and one logic board failure behind me; what do I think of the new Core 2 MacBook? It's great! It's a relatively quick performer, faster than my previous Acer Ferrari gaming/graphics machine. I switched to Mac because of the new Intel processor and Parallels. Parallels Desktop enables me to run Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux as well as Mac OSX Tiger... all at the same time, if I like, but that's slow. It needed a RAM upgrade from 1GB to 2GB to make the MacBook perform well enough for the demands of two operating systems at once.
Two of my streams of income are web design and blogging. I like having all major platforms readily available for testing my websites and those of clients. Plus I'm able to use all my old Windows XP software. Way to go Apple, making the move to Intel!!!
I carry an external firewire drive along, for backups, but the 120GB internal drive's increased storage is welcome. I also went with .Mac for a year. I backup all of my data to the external hard drive automatically every night with .Mac's Backup.
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