Robust road warrior
APPLE HAS DECIDED that sticking together bits of plastic and metal to make computer casings is out. The new way to do it, according to the company that took the first personal computer to market, is to carve the case out of a solid block of aluminium using lasers and high-pressure water. The result of this fresh approach to manufacturing is the new aluminium range of Apple Macbook laptops that are, thankfully, as robust as actual computers as they are as anvils.
The 13″ Apple Macbook I’m writing this on is possibly the most well crafted thing I own.
The 13″ monitor is a perfect compromise between portability and workability: ample enough for spreadsheeting yet small enough to be used in comfort on an economy class flight. But if you need more screen real estate there are also 15″ and 17″ models available.
The monitor itself is made of glass and provides good contrast and vivid colours. The new Macbook also sports Apple’s multi-touch technology that allows you to rotate images on the screen by making a circular gesture with two fingers on the trackpad. There’s no mouse button. Instead, you click down the entire trackpad. Click down with two fingers for “right clicking”. Swipe four fingers up the trackpad and it will shuffle all application windows out of the way and reveal your desktop. Three fingers swiped to the left for back in your browser and right for forward.
The keyboard on the Macbook is a pleasure for writers, with a welcome space surrounding each key so you rarely hit the wrong one.
Apple truly has done everything right with its new Macbook range. I’m hard-pressed to think of any cons to using it – even Windows-reliant individuals are able to load the Microsoft operating system on a Macbook natively, meaning it doesn’t use virtualisation technology to run Windows, which will behave exactly as it does on any other PC. That’s if you prefer not to use Apple’s OS X operating system, and I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t.
Finweek
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