http://realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1455 Real Kato Comments en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:55:41 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ken's RSS Script http://realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1455 This is a surprise. The "old" white polycarbonate MacBook <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=24540&pagtype=allchandate">has been upgraded</a> to Nvidia 9400M graphics and 2GB of RAM. This means that for $999, $300 less than the entry-level aluminum MacBook, you get nearly the same performance. You give up the aluminum case and the LED-backlit display, and you get slightly slower RAM, but hey, 300 bucks, man. Oh, also, you pick up a Firewire port, and you get a regular mini-DVI port instead of the DisplayPort connector.<br/><br/>This machine seemed like a clearance item until today. Now it's got some real appeal. Does Apple simply have a lot of leftover polycarbonate cases to get rid of?<br/> Ken Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:01:20 +0000 http://realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1455