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SCREEN SAVER The newest Mac laptop, the MacBook Pro, has a built-in camera for videoconferencing. For the less sure-handed, there's a motion sensor to protect your files if the machine gets bounced in transit. This sleek laptop is an inch thin, although it weighs...
...There is a trick in the pricing, however: When you upgrade the hard drive of the $1,299 white MacBook, it has the same specifications as the black one, but is about $150 cheaper. Also, if you want to upgrade the RAM from 512MB to 1GB, it is cheaper to do so during your initial purchase. (If you upgrade RAM later, you'll have to throw away two perfectly good memory chips...
...MacBook continues Apple's move towards an exclusively Intel-based lineup, and while a lot of software now runs directly on the new chip (for instance, Logitech's mouse and keyboard drivers), there are two major hold-outs, Adobe and Microsoft. You can use most of their programs on the new Macs, but they run only with help from Apple's invisible Rosetta software translator. My wife, an avid user of Office apps on her new employer-issued MacBook Pro, says that when she has several Office programs running simultaneously, she notices delays in typing and other subtle sluggishness...
...Speaking of Microsoft, the MacBook gave me an excellent opportunity to try out Boot Camp - that's the installation of Windows XP as a second operating system, in case you hadn't heard. On startup, I can choose the Mac OS or Windows, and everything I tried in the latter environment worked as well as it could have. I even tested out MTV's Urge service with - Jobs forgive me - an iriver clix music player. It all worked together even more smoothly than it had done on my high-powered Dell desktop. My biggest problem was an inability to "right...
...MacBook is a powerful and affordable option, especially for people who are uncertain about their Windows future. The next version, Vista, might be a success, but with a MacBook you can hedge your bet. You get a computer that runs both Mac OS X and Windows XP today, and even appears to meet the minimum requirements for Vista once it gets here. Dell and HP should be very worried indeed...