Discover New Things About The New MacBook
Since the launch of the new MacBooks, people have been constantly looking for new things that Apple may have inserted inside, and some people discovered some interesting updates and changes Apple made in their latest line of laptops.
Here are some of the changes and updates people discovered in the new MacBooks:
1. Break the Glass Screen Replace the whole Screen
You may have notice the glass panel sitting over the LCD screen, Apple Australia confirmed that should you drop the machine and bend the aluminium or break the glass fascia, you’ll have to replace the entire screen and top case because that’s bonded to the aluminium case behind the screen for extra robustness.
The Mac product manager demonstrated the stiffness of the aluminium plate backing and also showed the screen flexing under some pressure without cracking. And if you also press down onto the glass causing the LCD to blot where you were pressing,it won’t crack that easily, meaning that glass anel is not easy to break.
2. The new MacBooks run on an OS not yet available to other Macs
The New MacBooks are running OS X 10.5.5, build 9F2114 — whereas the latest release issued to Macs generally is 9F33. And here are the small changes so far…
3. The Battery Indicator is now on the left side
The battery indicator is no longer stuck to the battery — it’s on the side of the notebook, using a small silver button that’s flush to the case and tiny holes in the aluminium (probably laser bored) that light up.
4. The keyboard on the MacBook is frimly supported
The new MacBooks keyboard is very firmly mounted inside the case (Apple says this is due to the carved ‘unibody’ design which provides a very stiff chassis) and try as we might, we couldn’t get the keyboard to bend to pressure. The introduction of the backlit keyboard into the standard MacBook also makes it a more viable option for MacBook Pro owners looking for that elusive 13″ MacBook Pro.
5. Speakers are much better
Given there are no speaker grilles on the body, the speaker quality is surprisingly good. Sure, there’s no bass to speak of, but they’re not completely tinny and/or buzzy either — the sound is decently clear, with OK midrange.
6. Installing a Harddrive is much easier
If there’s one advantage the MacBook has long had over the MacBook Pro, it’s the deliciously easy hard-drive installation, with the hard disk able to slot in thorough the side of the battery bay.
MacBook Pro, on the other hand, seriously requires disassembly by an Apple qualified technician or you run the risk of damaging the case irrepairably as you try to prise it open, adding to the cost of a hard drive upgrade by $100 or more.
The new MacBook is — astonishingly — even easier to install a hard drive into than the last generation. It sits next to the battery, so all you have to do is pop the metal battery cover off, undo one screw, pull out the existing hard drive and slide the new one in.
You might think, then, that it would be overly easy for someone passing by your desk to steal your hard disk, but it turns out you can’t open the latch on the bottom of the computer to pop the battery compartment lid if you’ve got a Kensington lock in place on the side of the computer. It just jams the latch opening mechanism.
7. The new MacBooks have a SATA Optical Drive
The new MacBook (and Pro) are the first notebooks from Apple to use a SATA optical drive. This means that if you were prepared to jerry-rig it up, you could actually take out the optical drive and put a second hard drive in there. Yes, that means you could potentially have a MacBook Pro with 2 x 500GB hard drives - 1TB of storage in a slim, non-chunky laptop.
8. MacBooks now have Submersion Sensors
There are now ’submersion sensors’ in the notebook. Note, these are likely to be nothing too high tech — just a couple of paper dots stuck inside the machine which are chemically treated to change colour when they come in contact with moisture. They’ve been installed in mobile phones for years — it’s surprising that Apple is touting them as a feature. They’re really a ‘warranty fraud protection feature’ for Apple more than anything else.
Well this wraps it up, if we found some more changes and updates we’ll definitely post them so keep checking us out.
