The MacBook family is a range of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple Inc. that merged the PowerBook and iBook lines during the Apple Intel transition. The first model released under this family was the MacBook Pro, which was announced on 10 January 2006 at the Macworld Expo. The consumer-focused MacBook was released on 16 May 2006, and the MacBook Air was revealed on 15 January 2008.
A majority of the MacBook family makes use of the unibody alu...
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The MacBook family is a range of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple Inc. that merged the PowerBook and iBook lines during the Apple Intel transition. The first model released under this family was the MacBook Pro, which was announced on 10 January 2006 at the Macworld Expo. The consumer-focused MacBook was released on 16 May 2006, and the MacBook Air was revealed on 15 January 2008.
A majority of the MacBook family makes use of the unibody aluminum construction first introduced with the MacBook Air. The MacBook family (with the exception of the white polycarbonate MacBook) uses a black keyboard that was first used on the MacBook Air, which itself was inspired by the sunken keyboard of the original polycarbonate MacBooks. The now-standarized keyboard brings congruity to the MacBook line, with black keys on a silver aluminum body.
The latest refresh introduced a new NVIDIA chipset to the MacBook family. The chipset brought a 1066 MHz system bus, use of DDR3 system memory (DDR2 on...
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