Update: Apple MacBook

November 1st, 2007

Apple announced updates today to its MacBook line that finally bring it to Intel's 'Santa Rosa' laptop platform, which was announced in May of this year. Specific changes to the MacBook include improved (but still integrated) graphics, extended memory capability to a maximum of 4.0 GB, and the option of a larger 250 GB hard drive.

This update follows a previous MacBook update in May 2007 and demonstrates Apple's continued strategy of incremental but steady upgrades to its consumer/lightweight laptop platform. With additional RAM, the MacBook meets or exceeds the Lightweight Laptop and Value Laptop specifications in the newly-revised Laptop Computer Purchasing Guide.

Apple also added the availability of faster processors and larger hard drives to its MacBook Pro line today, but this line is not nearly as significantly revised as the MacBook; in fact, with any company other than Apple this change would probably pass almost completely unnoticed.

Both MacBooks and MacBook Pros are now shipping with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard pre-installed.

--John Mulhern III, Senior Project Leader, ISC Technology Support Services (November 1st, 2007)