Apple, Inc. (until January 2007 Apple Computer, Inc.) is a company from Silicon Valley, based in Cupertino, California, with the primary goal of activity in computer technology. Known mostly for Macintosh computers, Apple has a reputation for innovation in high tech industry.

Having learned several painful lessons after introducing the bulky Macintosh Portable in 1989, Apple introduced the PowerBook 1991 which established the modern form and ergonomic laptop computers. In the same year Apple introduced System 7, a major operating system upgrade that adds color graphical user interface and introduces new capabilities for network functions.

Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, managed to impress the audience again and in some measure the analysts and investors at the annual Macworld fair held in the American city San Francisco, says the international press.

The company introduced a new range of ultra-thin MacBook laptop and hoped that will be able to repeat the success of digital music through iTunes online store, and launching an online movie rental service. The new MacBook Air is the thinnest laptop in the world, according to Jobs, it has the maximum thickness of 1.93 centimeters (0.76 inches). On the thinnest laptop side, the device does not exceed 0.4 centimeters (0.16 inches). Just to emphasize suppleness of the laptop, Jobs has brought the product on stage in a standard mail envelope.

With a wide screen of 13.3 inches (33.8 centimeters), Intel Core 2 Duo up to 1.8 GHz, 2 gigabytes of RAM, multi-touch trackpad technology (first commercially introduced in the iPhone sites) and hard disk capacity of 80 gigabytes, the starting price of the new MacBook Air is $ 1800 (1224 euro) in the United States. Optionally, customers may choose to store the flash memory SSD (Solid State Drive) of 64 gigabytes, that makes the product price to go up to about 3100 dollars (2108 euro). Unlike traditional hard drives, SSD devices contain no moving parts, which significantly reduces access time and eliminates risk of data loss following mechanical shocks.

But miniaturization presents some disadvantages, because the device has no optical drive for reading and writing CDs or DVDs. Jobs says that the users will not miss it, because they can download music and movies from the Internet and can access wireless optical units of other computers (or PCs with Windows or Macintosh systems). Also optionally, users can purchase an external optical drive for 100 dollars (68 euro). Other aspects criticized by analysts are the lack of a traditional network cards (laptop can access the Internet only through a Wi-Fi), implementing a single USB 2.0 port and the device weight, which is about 1.36 kilograms. MacBook Air is designed as a laptop between the MacBook range and MacBook Pro top, but analysts believe that the product could attract the customers who would normally have been interested in the Pro model.

The great speech, which took place on 6 January 2009 at Macworld Apple has brought to public attention the new MacBook Pro, one of the apple laptop computers. In the absence of Steve Jobs, the man who is rumored that it will replace in the future (Phil Schiller) said that the new MacBook Pro is “the thinnest 17 inch laptop, with a thickness of 2.5 cm. Even the 3 kg weight does not mean much if we think that notebooks with screen sizes greater than or equal to 17 are considered solutions desktop replacement. MacBook Pro is certainly a notebook in which you can hardly find any fault. The construction of the chassis of one piece (unibody enclosure) is exceptional and the performances are also in height. On display with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels you will see how well it moves applications supported by a Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.66 GHz, 4 GB DDR3 RAM and the NVidia graphics (9400M + 9600M GT). Storage is on a 320 GB hard drive.

Although the MacBook Pro falls into the category desktop replacement, the relatively compact dimensions (39.3 x 26.7 x 2.5 cm) and light weight make it very easy to carry. In this case, the impressive autonomy role is doing its job, with its impressive eight hours, the best of those currently encountered at an Apple notebook.



With MacBook, one of the apple laptop computers, you get part of a new level graphics experience for popular 3D games like Spore, and Sims Call of Duty 3. NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor offers an outstanding viewing experience every day with performance up to 5 times better. Because of advanced architecture, NVIDIA graphics card offers a fluent and fast gameplay for you to enjoy a world of games with perfect details, vivid colors and smooth movement – all without sacrificing battery.

With a fast processor Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz, the MacBook is unsurpassed in the things you do daily such as sending emails, browsing the Internet and work with documents, spreadsheets and presentations iWorks, or Microsoft Office for Mac (sold separately). It also has sufficient power for activities that require intensive CPU and retouch a photo in iPhoto, editing an iMovie project or composition of a song using GarageBand. So take full advantage of the iLife software suite. MacBook can run Windows even at normal speed. Moreover, with a 2 GB standard memory (with support expansion up to 4GB), efficiently and simultaneously run many applications you want. Music, photos and movies – not to mention documents and other personal files – are gathered without you realize. Therefore, the MacBook offers a generous storage space. You have a spacious 250 GB hard drive, with options up to 500 GB, not to leave anything at home.

The MagSafe transformer is connected magnetic, not physical. So that if someone walks into the power cable while working, your new MacBook will not take flight from the table or desk. It will only come off without damaging the cable without affecting the system. As a bonus, you know that your MacBook’s fully loaded when the connector LED changes from red to green. A brilliant display. A Multi-Touch trackpad. A faster processor. And a battery that does not stops on the road. What you could want more from an accessible notebook?

There are many good producers of laptops on the market, such as Hewlett Packard, Asus, Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, Sony, Fujitsu, Alienware, MSI and Apple. And for today we’ll focus on just one of these companies, the last one of them from this list. Apple is a big American multinational corporation that produces all sorts of consumer electronic products, personal computers and also computer software. It was founded in 1975 in California, United States of America and today it had considerably expanded all over the world. In 2009 it had around 34,300 employees and made a profit of 8 billion dollars. Among its famous products there are the Macintosh computers, the iPods, the iPhones, the iPads, the MAC OS X operating system, the iTunes media browser and many more others.

And of course Apple also produces very good notebooks , and the actual brand produced and found on the market these days is the MacBook. There are three kinds of MacBooks, and these are: the classic MacBook, the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro. They come in various sizes and with different technical details, and if you want to buy one, you can find some of the best prices for Mac laptops at the store Best Buy.

So today we’ll discus more about a model found on the official site of Best Buy, and we’ll take the Apple ® – MacBook ® Pro with 13.3 ” Display, Model: MC 375 LL/A | SKU: 9755419. It is known that the Apple laptops are among the best in the world, but they are also among the most expensive ones. And the price for this model is 1,499 dollars…which is quite a lot compared to other laptops that have a display screen of 13 inch, and a price of around 600 dollars. The first and most important internal component of any computer is the processor, and this laptop has quite a good one – an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor that features a 1066 MHz frontside bus, 3 MB shared L 2 cache and a 2.66 GHz processor speed.

Of course for this money you can buy a laptop from a different producer, with a much more powerful processor, but since this is an Apple product it will work with the MAC OS X operating system, which is known to be much more stable and reliable than the classic Windows. The RAM memory is also very good – 4 GB DDR 3 SDRAM (expandable to 8 GB), so you will easily be able to do many activities at the same time. As we said the display screen has 13.3 inches, and it is a widescreen LED backlit display with a resolution of 1280 x 800. The hard drive offers plenty of space for most of the users, and it has 320 GB of space @ 5400 rpm, while the optical drive is a double layer DVD ± RW/ CD-RW (but there is no Blu-ray support).

The graphics engine is quite good too, and it is a NVIDIA GeForce 320 M graphics that features 256 MB of DDR 3 SDRAM. It also offers upport for DVI, VGA, dual-link DVI and HDMI connectors so in case you are not pleased with the size of the screen, you can connect it to a High Definition TV , and enjoy movies at a better quality. And like most of the laptops today this one also has a media card reader, a Built in high speed AirPort Extreme wireless LAN card (802.11 n) and also built in 10/100/1000 Base-T Gigabit Ethernet LAN wth RJ 45 connector. So you can easily connect to the internet, from many other places, not just from home. So you might say that these features are not quite good enough for these money, but let’s not forget that this is a really small and thin laptop and has these dimensions:
Product Height 1″
Product Width 12.8″
Product Weight 4.5 lbs.
Product Depth 8.9″

It comes with the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system installed, and with other Apple software such as: iTunes, Time Machine, Spotlight, Quick Look, Spaces, Dashboard, Mail, iChat and others. And of course it is also Energy Star qualified so it will use less energy and helps protecting the environment.

The laptops are getting really popular these days, and they are becoming to be used by more and more people, of all ages and categories. They are not used just by the rich business men, or just by those people who are traveling a lot, but they can be used by many simply to replace their already classic desktop computer. Like a computer, a laptop doesn’t  have just a specific usage, and can be used for all kinds of activities, from playing video games, watching movies, listening to music to more “serious” activities such as video editing, music making, documents editing and so on.

For today we’ll focus on one of those activities, the video editing. All of those people interested in this kind of activity are using special programs dedicated to it, programs that are usually very complex and require a powerful computer or laptop. So for being able to edit videos easily, you will need to buy a premium laptop. And since most of the major companies have some premium laptops in their offer, you can choose one from any of them. But still one company offers a little more advantages and this is Apple.

This is not because the features offered by an Apple laptop are better compared to the ones from another company, but it is because of the operating system – the Mac OS X. It is known that the Windows (the operating system used on all the other laptops from other producers) has many errors and problems, which are not found in the Mac operating system. And since this operating system was made by Apple, of course it is found on all of its laptops. So now we can take the conclusion that the best video editing laptop is the MacBook (any of the 3 versions MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro). So now we’ll discuss more about a Mac laptop, for example this one: the Apple ® – MacBook ® Pro with 13.3″ Display, Model: MC 375 LL/A. It is known that the Apple notebooks are quite expensive, and it’s the same with this one because it has a price of 1,499 dollars.

But of course the features offered for these money are really good, and here they are:

-Warranty Terms–Parts 1 year limited

-Warranty Terms–Labor 1 year limited

-Product Height: 1 ”

-Product Width: 12.8 ”

-Product Weight: 4.5 lbs.

-Product Depth: 8.9 ”

-Processor: Brand Intel ®

-Processor: Intel® Core ™ 2 Duo

-Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz

-Battery Type: Lithium – polymer

-Display Type: Widescreen backlit LED (1280 x 800)

-Screen Size (Measured Diagonally): 13.3 ”

-System Bus: 1066 MHz

-Cache Memory: 3 MB on die Level 2

-System Memory (RAM): 4 GB

-System Memory (RAM): Expandable To 8 GB

-Type of Memory (RAM): DDR3 SDRAM

-Hard Drive Type: SATA (5400 rpm)

-Computer Hard Drive Size: 320 GB

-Optical Drive: Double-layer DVD ± RW/ CD-RW

-Optical Drive Speeds: 4 x DVD + R DL; 4 x DVD – R DL; 8 x 4 x 8 DVD + RW; 8 x 4 x 8 DVD- RW; 24 x 10 x 24 CD-RW

-Direct-Disc Labeling: No

-Digital Media Reader or Slots: Yes, digital media card reader

-Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320 M

-Video Memory: 256 MB DDR 3 SDRAM (shared)<

-TV Tuner: No

-MPEG: Yes

-Built-in Webcam: Yes

-Modem: None

-Networking Built-in: 10/ 100 / 1000Base – T Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ 45 connector)

-Wireless Networking: Wireless-

-Bluetooth-Enabled: Yes

-S-Video Outputs: None

-Additional Audio/Video Connectors Audio line-in

- Speakers: Internal

-PCMCIA Slots: None

-USB 2.0 Ports 2

-IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports:  1

-Parallel Ports: None

-Game Ports: None

-Laptop Weight: Ultraportable (5.5 lbs. or less)

-Battery Life: Not available

-Pointing Device: Multitouch trackpa

-HDMI Output: No

-Blu-ray Player: No

-Operating System: Platform Mac

-Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

-Included Software: iTunes, Time Machine, Spotlight, Quick Look, Spaces, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Photo Book, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Front Row, Xcode and iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)

-ENERGY STAR Qualified: Yes

-BBY Software Installer: No

-Backlit Keyboard: Yes

-Drive Capacity: 320GB

-Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 320 M