Apple MacBook 13.3" Laptop (February, 2008) - Customized

Giving this MacBook model even two stars is being kind, Being a long time Mac user and having owned numerous models this one is an Apple disaster.

It's absolutely the worst designed MacBook I've ever seen, The first time I removed the uppercase/keyboard to take out the non-functioning CD/DVD drive I could not believe the number of screws that were involved to get to it.

Even after upgrading the memory to 6GB (apple specs aren't always so accurate) and installing a solid state drive it just didn't seem to make much of a performance difference.

At the time I purchased it I really had no idea how it looked, It has a very flimsy feel in the overall way it's put together.

Supposedly it's the predecessor to the Unibody or the MacBook pro, Apple should have just skipped this one and went right to the NeXT step (pun strongly intended)

I actually renamed it Ugly Betty and only after owning it for a little over a month sold it, The new owner is very happy with.

I fully agree with the user 'imacblue7'. This is one of the worst laptops I have ever had to work on. Taking it fully apart to replace the logic board, LCD and LCD inverter cable was awful.


However, the battery life is amazing, the performance is outstanding, and the overall design I rather enjoyed. I owned a DELL Studio 1535 with the same specs as the MacBook (2,1GHz Core2Duo, 4G DDR2@667MHz) and the Mac far out performed the DELL - even with the DELL running Windows 7 64 or Ubuntu 64.


Personally, I would never pay for a brand new Mac, the cost is outrageous. I am actually selling mine to purchase a better PC laptop with a dedicated graphics card in order to do mobile graphics design for my customer base.

It is very fast. I use it a lot to buy and sell on ebay and I do not want a slow computer when bidding. It also has a large memory that I will never fill probably. I take a lot of pictures of my boat work and fishing. I also believe apple is not near as much a target of worms and virusses. I have had manny problems with this on the ms system

Great little machine, love it. Even though it's 4 years old it still runs great but you must remember it's an Apple product. I made one upgrade. I bought Lion from the App Store for $30. Love that too. I'm so happy with my purchase. If you can buy an 06, 07, 08 or 09 and you want to download Lion you must have 2 GB of ram and your set.

When comparing to other manufacturers of the same vintage (2008) it is clear that the Hardware engineering on the Apple MacBook 13.3" is far superior. In our household the Apple has outlived 3 competitor laptops since 2008 and has never been in for repair.