Sneaky! Apple updates white MacBook specs, tells no one

By on Jan 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM
News January 21, 2009

No one can create product buzz quite like Apple, much like no one can avoid product buzz quite like Apple. True to form, sometime in the past few days Apple upgraded the specs on its white MacBook bringing it much closer in line with its aluminum unibody brothers. While the processor is down 100MHz and currently stands at 2.0GHz, Apple compensated for the loss with a much faster 1066MHz front side bus. RAM now starts at 2GB via two 1GB sticks of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM and the graphics are now pumped out of an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM. As for the hard drive upgrades, an optional 320GB 5400-rpm drive is now available alongside the 160GB and 256GB options. This news will likely upset quite a few people but it’s completely understandable from Apple’s point of view – the company would not want to announce anything that could dampen sales of its higher-end unibody MacBooks. The base price on the white MacBook has not been affected by these changes and still rings up at $999.

[Via Engadget]

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  • neodorian

    Great, so now it’s finally up to par with my year-old $700 Cheap-pad.

    /still wants an updated $500 Mini

  • Joki

    Hmm good stuff!

  • $incere

    Despite the specs, I can’t get away from my Windows machine. I’m like an abused wife that won’t leave her husband, hoping that he’ll get better one day.

    **No offense to the battered wives of the world.

  • john

    Oh boy, I feel sorry for the people who just recently bought the White macbook after Macbook unibody announcement…. lol

    Ouch!

  • Peace of Soul

    Just like Apple, always burning their customers, its reallÿ ridiculous. The sad part is that people still go out on a limb and buy their products, knowing that within a month or so there’s going to be an updated version.

  • http://www.apple.com Steve Jobs

    HAHAHAHA Buy my crap now and I’ll update it a month later! I could take a dump and put a capacitive touch-screen on it and you morons would line up days in advance just to smell it.

  • DubYa

    LOL. The anti apple fanboys are just as annoying as the apple fanboys.

  • fanboy

    not a fan of Mac for one simple reason…they abuse the customers (and they, the customer almost never notice it)…Macs used to be better than MS or linux boxes, but today they have no advantage and they’re over-priced. Only adwantage and this one is always brought up is the “viruses” but that can be negated with propper computer use and a propperly set-up firewall/anti-virus.

    You can get a cheap netbook or notebook for half the price of a mac and same if not better specs. It’s a shame people reward Apple’s abuse simply becasue they want to say they’ve got a “mac”.

    And please don’t mention the blue screen of death b/c in over a decade…not a sinlge one has died due to the OS.

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