Apple MacBook 13" Review

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We've been playing with the MacBook for a week or so and have come to a preliminary verdict: Apple may have finally nailed it. The company has corrected a handful of the iBook's shortcomings, hit a totally reasonable price point -- at least for the £749 (inc. VAT) baseline white model -- and finally delivered a notebook with a 13.3in. display, which we believe offers a better compromise between size and portability than any other screen size on the market. Although plenty of notebooks out there start for considerably less than the MacBook, the value gap between Apple notebooks and the PC competition has narrowed significantly. Here are some early impressions

On top of everything else, you get Apple's best-of-breed software package, which includes almost everything that comes with the higher-end MacBook Pro; a built-in iSight Webcam for videoconferencing; and a small, iPod Shuffle-looking remote for controlling iTunes, DVDs, photos and videos from afar.