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Bought this for my daughter, but she changed her mine for some reason, product delivered with signature must be signed to receive the item, I did not want to receive it so I asked Amazon customer service to order UPS to ship it back to Amazon, I got a good service from Amazon,laptop returned to Amazon and they credit me back 100% within a week with no hassle. Amazon is a good web store that treat customer with respect. I like to do business with Amazon all the time, especially with no shipping fee for item over $25, no body can beat this.

There is only “2 stars” because we did not use it yet. How ever like other customer have reviewed: The bottom of laptop is made of material which it absorbs dirt easily and when it dirty is very hard to clean it (you go to the local store to experience it for yourself), and there no little spacers at bottom, this will make it become easy scratching, collect dirt and not vent space for heat to flow. That make it look like a CHEAP product even though the spec of the inner hardwares is good. Shame on Apple to make the product with CHEAP appearance like that.

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Rating: 2 / 5

By B. Nguyen on May 4, 2010

My son has had a MacBook for about 2 or 3 yrs, and it has been a disapointment. I’ve got 3 Dell’s in the house, but my son insisted on getting a Mac because he thought it was better. First of all, for $1K, all you get is a basic computer with a small HD and only a 13″ screen. For ~ half the price, you can get a PC with a 15″ screen and more powerfull chip and drive. We’ve had several reliability issues with the Mac. One time, the bottom half of the screen stayed blank, so we had to bring it to the “genius bar”, and fortunately it was still under warranty – solution was to replace the screen. On two other occassions, we had to bring it in to have the disk drive replaced since the CD/DVD’s got stuck and would not eject. Another problem with Mac is they don’t run all the programs that a PC does. So my son just partitioned his HD and installed Windows7 on his Mac so he could run the programs his Apple OS won’t run. He conclueded that Windows7 is better, and he wants a Dell notebook for his next computer. My other son also wants a Dell notebook now.

My kids learned a valuable lesson which I am passing on to you – you don’t always get what you pay for.
Rating: 2 / 5

By FastMoneyPlayaaa on May 4, 2010

I have had my macbook for about 3 years. I love the interface and the aesthetics of the computer. Within the last year, I have begun to experience trouble with my internet speed. It took 30 seconds for a webpage like DrudgeReport, all text, to load. Trying to watch streaming video is almost hopeless. I watch video for 10 seconds, it loads for 3 seconds, I watch for 10, load for 3, etc. My blackberry Bold is faster than my 13″ Macbook!

I upgraded to Leopard and thought surely that will solve my problems. No, it did not. I bought a new router. That did not do a single thing. I am not a computer whiz but I have been using PCs for the last 20 years (actually, my first computer was an Apple IIe). I am not computer illiterate. It should not be this difficult to get my mac to perform as fast as a PC laptop. Incidentally, I can connect my wife’s Dell to our wireless and she gets blazing fast wireless, so the router and network are working just fine.

I am so fed up and frustrated with Apple. After doing online searches to solve this problem, it seems that many, many people share my frustration and have uber slow internet. There are a myriad of proposed solutions…not of which have worked for me. It should be easy and quick to fix any problems and updates should be made available from Apple.

Here I am, stuck with my thousand dollar computer which I purchase specifically so that I could easily and quickly access the internet and streaming media. I feel like I have gone back 12 years in regard to speed.

Buyer beware…Apple is not as intuitive or as functional as they advertise. Yes, it is a sexy machine but it seems that often it does not perform like it should. I would much rather have a PC than this white brick of a computer.

PS – forgot to add that the internal fan likes to run at 6000+ RPMs on a regular basis. It is LOUD and HOT. Also, when this fan runs so loud and hot, it suck up your battery and slows down everything else that you are trying to do. oh, guess what? Apple does not have a fix that you can download. WTF?! Seriously. You have to get a third party program that is fortunately free and fortunately it works. Apple should provide this themselves but they do not.

I cannot understand this company. They do some things so well but just drop the ball on other things.
Rating: 2 / 5

By Patrick on May 4, 2010

Why bother with this when the unibody MacBook Pro 2.26 is only $899? Attention college students, Apple has stuffed the educational channels, namely colleges and universities, with 6/8/2010 version of MacBook Pros. If you don’t mind the old MagUnSafe adapters, the old ones are good value. They are as low as $899 for the 2.26 and $1,099 for the 2.53GHz.

Consider the MacBook Pro instead.

For those who don’t want to carry the bulky 17″ or 15.4″ just for the matte screen, this is a good alternative? Why? You may apply anti-reflective film directly over the image plane. This is not the same as applying anti-reflective film on the glossy unibody MacBook Pro, because the image actually project about 3mm before hitting the matte film, which degrades the image by reducing clarity.

The plastic body is a vast improvement from the flawed design from May, 2006. The plastic body is more resilient and is not as likely to be dented or be deformed from normal use. The bottom plate is rubberized aluminum. It may help heat dissipation. The previous version has a very poor record with heat dissipation, so hard drive failure rate is significantly higher than any other product on the market (regardless of brand). It is a sliver (like two sheets of paper) thinner than the predecessor. (SO WHAT!)

What’s so bad about this unit?

Let me list the negative aspects of this ‘new’ product, now I am done with the positive attributes, let me outline the bad and the ugly–regardless of how trivial they might be.

* At $999, it’s only $170 less than the MacBook Pro.

* No FireWire of any kind. Apple might as well call this the ‘NeuterBook’.

* No IR remote access.

* No backlit keyboard.

* Wider and deeper than the previous version (Sorry, we are not dealing with B-movies, so these are not good attributes).

* A few ounces heavier than the 13.3″ MacBook Pro.

* No SD card slot.

I think we are easily giving up more than $170 of convenience and equipment.

Let this product fail. It’s not meant to be. Stay away from this.
Rating: 1 / 5

By Paul C. Huang on May 4, 2010

I bought this Mac looking for better computer quality. I hear a lot of good things when I ask about Macs, such as no virus’s, ergonomics, sleek, Linux etc. I had this Mac for about 3 days. It was smooth, efficient, and just plain good looking. I had time to create a Sims 3 game. I could play on Farmville and chat with my family ON WIRELESS with no problem. Then all of the sudden, with out any warning whatsoever, the wireless stops working and after I ran a few tests it said the airport card was not installed, then after re-installing everything, it’s still says “No airport card installed”. Sad Face :[ Now I have to go through the head ache of returning and exchanging this product for either a new one. Total wet blanket on my hot affair with Macbook. Would I buy another Mac book?

sure if I had a money tree out back that I could harvest any day of the week!
Rating: 2 / 5

By Robin Lasater on May 4, 2010