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Apple recently updated the MacBooks, giving them a 64 Mhz boost from 2.16 to 2.2 Ghz and upgrading their video card from one integrated graphics card to another. But the MacBook is in dire need of more. Apple needs to pay attention to the MacBook and change it’s design.

In my experience with the MacBook, it has felt the cheapest of all the Macs. It was nice and small, but the case scratched easily and every time I opened the lid and it stopped abruptly at a 90 degree angle, I winced. Apple needs to update the MacBook not only for practical purposes but for aesthetic purposes as well. Now that Apple has made the iMac aluminum, Apple’s entire computer lineup is mainly aluminum. Except the MacBook. And next to a MacBook Pro, an iMac and a Mac Pro, it looks cheap. Especially the white ones.

Forget about the sub-notebook, make the MacBook thinner, throw it in an aluminum casing, and make it a mini MacBook Pro (can we get a Matte screen option, too?). It would look tons better, feel tons better, not scratch, fit in with their product lineup, and would overall be a better, more quality product. The main reason I sold my MacBook was that I couldn’t deal with the cheap feel compared to all of my other Macs. And God, did that showoff fingerprints…

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