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Apple Powers Up The MacBook Line

Interesting enough, Apple has release their third update for the third week in a row to their Hardware/Software line of products. This time they updated the MacBooks and MacBook Pros, since I’m so close to buy a MacBook and I’m so excited about it I will focus my attention on it.

The MacBook lineup remains in the same price point but with more power and less accessories than before. That’s right, less accessories, for some reason Apple eliminated the inclusion of the Apple Remote in the newly refreshed MacBooks and MacBook Pros. I don’t think they did this just to be cheap, but maybe they analyze the people amount of people who actually will use a product like this.

Personally, I’ve used my remote like 10 times since last November, whenever I’m just filing stuff in my small office at home or cleaning the office, I put some music or listen to a podcast using Front Row. I don’t think people purchasing the MacBook will miss much the missing remote, after all you can get one for just $19.

The new MacBook sports a new Core2Duo chip, the Penrym is based on the new 45nm micro architecture that Intel plans to move all their processor lineup from now on. The new processors have 3MB of L2 cache and a new vector engine, you can choose on a 2.1GHz on the base model or 2.4GHz on the following two options.

I’m very interested in the $1,299.00 MacBook which sports the 2.4GHz processor with 2GB or RAM standard, a 160GB hard drive, and Double Layer SuperDrive. This baby weights only 5 pounds, which makes it very confortable to carry around, and enough ports (unlike the MacBook Air) to connect anything just about anywhere.

One more thing this new MacBooks are missing is some of the extra software they used to include before, like the free Quicken, some games etc. All in all, this new MacBooks are smoking great, I’m waiting to make sure people are not having major issues with these new processor to get mine. I notice that the battery specifications show less uptime than the previous lineup, I’m thinking is because the more powerful processors and the fact that new they have to manage more memory.

What do you think? Are getting a MacBook anytime soon? I would like to hear from anyone that gets the new MacBook to see if there’s any heat issues or if they remains the same.